| Aims | - Obtain, interpret and record an accurate history that incorporates appropriate dental, medical (including drug history), social, cultural, nutritional, psychological and genetic factors.
Identify from the patient upon examination, the symptoms and principal complaint, and any relevant history.
Assess accurately the patients standard of oral hygiene and, where necessary, their ability motivation and commitment to improve it.
Monitors therapeutic outcomes and ensures that appropriate follow-up care is arranged. Recognises changes in the clinical picture and reviews diagnoses and management plans regularly. The trainee can demonstrate the ability to act appropriately and quickly when problems arise.
- Perform a comprehensive extra-oral and intra-oral examination that is suitable for the clothed patient and record the findings accurately through communication, either with or without a supporting healthcare professional.
Assess dental, skeletal and occlusal relationships in the primary, mixed and permanent dentition accurately, and identify conditions, which may require treatment or referral onwards.
Assess hard and soft tissue developmental abnormalities and identify conditions, which may require investigation, treatment or onward referral.
- Distinguish between mucosal, gingival and periodontal health and disease, and identify conditions, which may require investigation, treatment or onward referral.
Identify the location, extent and activity of caries, and plan for appropriate management at all levels of complexity appropriate to the trainees seniority and resources, (including relevant restorative skills).
Distinguish between pulpal health and disease, and identify conditions, which may require treatment or onward referral.
Assess the influence of systemic diseases and other disabilities (and associated treatment) on oral health and the delivery of dental treatment.
- Prescribe to, and communicate with, the dental laborator
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