Curriculum subject

Fixed dentures I

Subject
Subject code	2DR313FP-1
Subject name	Fixed dentures I
Credit points	13 ECTS
Grading method	Distinctive (letters)

Curriculum subject
Curriculum	2015 HT
Study year	3
Semester	Fall semester
Subject type	Mandatory

Academicians
Juri Beljakov
Marit Paljak
Heli Kuuse
Külli Nõlvak

Subject loads
Lecture	20
Practice	224
Personal study	94

Aim
During the practical exercise works the student will be prepared to produce full casted, metal ceramic and metal-plastic crowns, and bridgedentures, therewith acquiring theoretical knowledge and practical work methods.

Study outcome
Having passed the subject, the student: 1.knows, recognizes and uses speciality terminology; 2. knows and recognizes the classifications of dental defects and fixed dentures, the indications and contraindications of prosthetic dentistry, the completing stages of denture; 3. has an overview about inserting dentures into oral cavity, about the adaptation and maintenance; 4. considers the principles of esthetics, functioning and occlusion in producing a denture; 5. learns to select and use materials, apparatuses and work instruments according to the work’s nature by observing instructions, requirements for safety measures and environment saving; 6.learns to prepare a combined model; 7.learns to mount the combined gypsum models into articulator; 8.learns to prepare abutments, full casted and metal ceramic crowns, bridges, laminates and inlays/onlays; 9.learns to set sprues to wax models and insert wax model to be produced as metal cast; 10.learns to set up a metal cast apparatus to pour fixed prostheses, pour metal alloys and open the metal cast cilinder; 11.learns to process and finish fixed dental restaurations; 12.can describe and evaluate work process and the prepared work, to analyze the technological, instructing related and organizational causes of successful and unsuccessful works; 13.can compare the technological processes of different fixed prostheses.

Current rounds
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