Dental Therapy Dual qualification of dental therapy and dental - - PDF document

Dental Therapy

Dual qualification of dental therapy and dental

hygiene

What I do in dental therapy:

Restorations Pulpotomy & stainless steel crowns Fissure seals Rubber dam use Caries prevention Extraction of decidious teeth Adult dental therapy-minimal restorations in adult teeth

Stainless steel crown

Instruments

Domian explorer-residual calculus Gracey Curette 15/16 & ½ The technique used is the same

Uniforms

I arrive at the clinic in my uniform Clinic provides our gowns Closed toed shoes

Infection control

I always have to wear safety glasses Use of gloves

Sterilisation and Disinfection

Instruments are sterilised away from clinic. I have a special instrument room at clinic Green tracking sheet Everything is covered in plastic

Patient appointment

I have a 1hour 15min appointment with patient First appointment is exam and periodontal chart

depending on patients CPITN score

10 chairs, 5 in hygiene & 5 in therapy Only at the clinic when we have a patient I assist for 2 patients in the morning and operate for 2

patients in the afternoon

Clinical teachers check our work at every stage during

treatment

Patient appointment

Qualifiers and Competencies Titanium-record keeping Use local anaesthetics before deep scaling and

restorations in therapy

I don't use air flow at my clinic I don't instruct my patient to use interdental brushes

in their pockets only in between the interdental space.

You are only allowed to be treated at the clinic in

Australia if you have a concession card and it’s free

What else our course involves

When I'm not at clinic:

Residential care facility-5 days Bendigo Community Health

Orthodontics Tooth whitening 2 ½ year course including a summer semester-

equivalent to 6 semesters