Exam/Diagnosis and treatment planning and lab tests and Crown Preperation (BE220115)

Recommended to all

1. • 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.
2. • 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.
3. • 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.
4. • Assess accurately the patients standard of oral hygiene and, where necessary, their ability motivation and commitment to improve it. • 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).
5. CROWN PREPERATION: • Evaluate the prognosis for the restorative process of individual teeth and relate this to the overall treatment plan and patient’s aims and expectations • Restore teeth to form, function and appearance using appropriate indirect restorations • Prescribe to, and communicate with, the dental laboratory accurately, and assess the quality of the work completed by laboratory technicians.