Learning Outcome
The Student Will:
- Be able to identify, evaluate and control or neutralise those factors tending to worsen a developing malocclusion.
- Be able to make a rational choice of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment procedure based upon the knowledge of growth patterns.
- Be able to minimise skeletal, dentoalveolar and mascular problems by the end of the transition to permanent dentition.
Module Structure - Direct Learning (14 Hours)
Mode of Teaching: Lecture
- Interceptive Orthodontics
- Growth Modification
- Patient co-operation
- Early retirement philosophy
- Age 7-9 diagnosis and treatment
- Oral habits: thumb, tongue, pacifier
- Posterior cross bite
- Anterior cross bite
- Allergies, adenoids and airways
- Eruption problems
- 2x4 straight wire appliances in the mixed dentition
- Harmonising the width of the dental arches
- Improving speech problems
- Simplifying and/or shortening treatment time for later corrective orthodontics
- Reducing the likelihood of impacted permanent teeth
- Maintaining leeway space
- Maintaining early treatment changes as the face matures
- Interceptive therapies in Class lll malocclusions
- Prevention and treatment of craniomandibular disorder in paediatric dentistry
- Prevention and treatment of periodontal problems in interceptive orthodontics
- Prevention and treatment of dental trauma
- Exercises in basic wire bending
- Designing a space maintainer
- Bending a utility arch
Self Learning (130 Hours)
- Review of module presentation materials
- Extended reading from ABO reading list
- Reflection on Orthodontic treatment in clinical practice
- Regular online group journal club and clnical discussions
- Independent study
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