Students who are just beginning clinical activity in periodontics and operative dentistry learn to take advantage of the diagnostic information available on the dental radiograph. The course will begin with principles of radiographic interpretation, including information on the quality of images, errors and their causes, proper viewing techniques and conditions, and the value of various radiographic views. Oral Medicine - Gobetti. Students learn the dental significance and implications of internal medicine and systemic diseases on the practice of dentistry. They learn to treat medically compromised patients, and to correlate medical and dental aspects of patient care.
Students practice intraoral and panoramic radiographic techniques on a manikin.
Students continue to refine their skills by taking intraoral and panoramic radiographs on clinic patients. Students apply the oral diagnosis and oral medicine lecture material to the clinical environment through patient contact, that is, history, oral examination, and treatment planning. Oral Pathology Lecture and Laboratory - Hanks, D'Silva and Staff. This course is a survey course for sophomore dental students of the pathologic processes and respective diseases found in the oral cavity and perioral tissues of the head and neck areas. The objective of this course is to raise awareness of the clinician to the large number of pathologic processes which may present themselves in both hard and soft tissues in clinical practice.