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DTH 121 Dental Therapy Instrumentation

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences17 topics

DTH 121 covers 17 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Objectives and aims of instrumentation
  2. Instrumentation for operator confidence and safety
  3. Basic dental therapy instruments
  4. Types and sets of hand scalers
  5. Groups of hand scalers
  6. Different types of scalers
  7. Instruments for tooth carving
  8. Instruments for phantom head procedures
  9. Instruments for oral examination
  10. Differentiation and sorting of dental instruments
  11. Effects of careless instrumentation
  12. Dental therapy instruments
  13. Instrument drawing and labelling
  14. Carving hand instruments
  15. Phantom head instruments
  16. Oral examination instruments
  17. Instrument sorting

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Objectives and aims of instrumentation

Students must grasp the primary objectives of dental instrumentation – to diagnose, treat, and maintain oral health safely and efficiently. Understanding these aims helps in selecting appropriate instruments, planning procedures, and ensuring patient safety, all of which are tested in the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams.

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