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DENTFN 501

Head and Neck Anatomy for Dental Students

Course Director: Katherine Rafferty
Credits: 3
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1

Course Overview

This course is an overview of head-and-neck anatomy geared toward dental students. Through lectures and lab sessions, students will learn the structures of the head-and-neck region and the relationship of that part of the body with body systems. Through interactions with faculty and each other, students will learn to use correct anatomical language necessary to communicate with patients and other professionals

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. Identify the gross anatomic structures found within the head-and-neck region from a three dimensional aspect.
2. Explain the anatomical systems as they apply to the head-and-neck region and the rest of the body.
3. Relate head-and-neck anatomical structures to clinical situations.
4. Practice the appropriate anatomical language necessary to communicate with colleagues and other health care professionals.

UWSOD Competencies: C-03, C-08, CE-02

Date last updated: 2023-09-26

DENTPC 565

Conversations on Dental Practice

Course Directors: Rachel Greene & Randy Maebo
Credits: 1
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn/1

Course Overview

This course is the introductory component of the four-year practice management series. It provides a foundation for practice management and features a variety of dental-industry professionals sharing their expertise in this area. Students will hear from dental professionals who work in a variety of clinic settings. They will learn how to develop a career plan and will complete a personal career plan based on a model of oral-healthcare delivery that most interests them.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
1. Discuss the elements of practice management.
2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of practice ownership models.
3. Discuss different models of oral-healthcare delivery.
4. Create a career plan.

UWSOD Competencies: C-09, C-06, C-07, CE-04, C-14, C-08

Date last updated: 2024-04-11

DENTPC 511

Introduction to Periodontics

Course Director: Diane Daubert
Credits: 2
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1

Course Overview

This is the introductory didactic course in periodontology. It includes the clinical, histopathologic, and radiographic features of various periodontal diseases; principles of preventive periodontics; initial examination of the periodontium; and the classification and epidemiology of periodontal diseases.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. List the normal structures of the periodontium.
2. Diagnose periodontal diseases.
3. Describe the epidemiology of periodontal diseases.
4. Describe local and systemic factors that contribute to the development of periodontal disease.
5. Describe the role of microbial plaque, calculus, and tobacco use in the development of periodontal diseases.
6. Describe the histopathology of periodontal diseases.
7. Describe the host response and pathogenic lesions in periodontal disease.
8. Demonstrate periodontal probing technique on a dentoform.

UWSOD Competencies: C-03, C-04, C-11, C-12, C-13, CE-03

Date last updated: 2023-08-09

DENTPC 510

Dental Anatomy

Course Director: James Newman
Credits: 4
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1

Course Overview

This course continues to introduce students to permanent and primary tooth anatomy. The course compares the classes and types of tooth morphology and examines the influence of tooth anatomy on clinical dental procedures. Emphasis is on the development of manual dexterity, perception, and evaluative skills.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. Identify the morphology of selected permanent teeth from both an external perspective and a cross-sectional view.
2. Discuss the relationships between teeth and the supporting structures.
3. Recognize the clinical significance of selected tooth form and contour.
4. Wax teeth with dexterity.
5. Reproduce the morphology of selected permanent teeth from both an external perspective and a cross-sectional view.
6. Demonstrate basic dental laboratory procedures through the manipulation of waxing instruments and Dentoforms.
7. Demonstrate skill when using digital scanners and STL files.

UWSOD Competencies: C-01, C-02, C-03, C-09, C-15, C-19, C-20, C-21, CE-02, CE-03, CE-05, CE-07

Date last updated: 2023-09-12

DENTFN 513

Oral Microbiology

Course Director: Jeffrey McLean & Kristopher Kerns
Credits: 2
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1

Course Overview

Dental caries and periodontal diseases are the most common microbial-based diseases that dentists treat every day; therefore, future dentists must have a strong understanding of the basic microbiology behind the etiology of these diseases. This lecture course will cover many aspects of oral microbiology including oral ecology, the human microbiome, and the relationship of bacteria to human health and disease.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. Discuss the basic scientific rationale for the practice of microbiology in dentistry regarding the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of oral diseases.
2. Explain the basic functions of the human innate and adaptive immune responses as they pertain to the oral cavity.
3. Describe the principles of bacterial genetic variation and the types of techniques used to assess taxonomic/genomic diversity and their applications in dentistry.
4. Explain the basis of oral bacterial virulence factors and bacterial immune evasion associated with oral diseases.
5. Describe the bacteriological etiology and pathogenic mechanisms involved in the two major plaque-related diseases, caries and periodontal disease.
6. Describe the principles of clinical asepsis.

UWSOD Competencies: C-03

Date last updated: 2023-11-21

DENTFN 512

Foundations of Dental Medicine

Course Director: Ashland Doomes and Cameron Randall
Credits: 2
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1

Course Overview

This course promotes the didactic development of clinical skills that form the basis of patient-centered communication, history-taking and physical assessment, and medical record documentation. Students learn interactively through classroom lecture sessions, small group discussions, group work, and case activities. They also develop culturally-appropriate basic skills through an e-learning program.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. List the components of a comprehensive medical/dental/behavioral history.
2. Utilize patient-centered communication skills for eliciting and exchanging information, identifying health priorities, and making decisions about treatment.
3. Identify social and cultural contributors to individual patients’ health and health behaviors.
4. Adapt the interview to the clinical setting and to patients’ needs across the life cycle, with a focus on geriatric and adolescent patients.
5. Describe the importance and techniques of communicating effectively with patients in a culturally-sensitive manner with recognition of the impact of implicit biases.
6. Explain the need for eliciting an accurate substance-use history during a dental examination.
7. Accurately and completely document a patient’s history and exam in a standard and organized manner.
8. Develop a practice of professional reflection.
9. Utilize the principles of patient autonomy and minimizing harm to analyze selected cases of patient-dentist interactions.
10. Describe concepts related to health inequities for people from historically excluded groups.
11. Describe principles of cultural humility to health care.

UWSOD Competencies: C-01, C-02, C-03, C-04, C-05, C-06, C-09, C-10, C-11, C-12, C-13, C-14, C-15, C-16, C-17, C-24, C-26, C-29, C-30, C-31, CE-02, CE-03, CE-06, CE-07

Date last updated: 2023-10-07

DENTFN 511

Invaders and Defenders

Course Director: Whasun “Sun” Oh Chung
Credits: 5
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn/ 1

Course Overview

Students will analyze critical concepts of microbiology and immunology, in both health and disease, using content-specific language. By the completion of this course, they will be able to interpret the manifestations of host-immune and pathogen responses in common infections of global health that impact dentistry. Classes will include large-group lectures and small-group discussions of case-based studies.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. Analyze common diagnostic results of infectious and immune-mediated diseases.
2. Analyze factors that contribute to the expanding impact of infectious diseases on interdependent health communities locally and globally.
3. Apply evidence-based approaches to the management and prevention of infectious and immune-mediated diseases.
4. Describe the characteristics of antimicrobials, their mechanisms of action, mechanisms of resistance, and adverse effects including allergy.
5. Compare normal innate and adaptive immune mechanisms used to recognize, control, and clear pathogens.
6. Apply the clinical features, cells, and soluble mediators of inflammation to an explanation of beneficial and deleterious inflammatory responses.
7. Compare normal and abnormal immune mechanisms that mediate tolerance, autoimmunity, and allergy.
8. Relate the macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of the lymphoid system to how cells and proteins of the immune system traffic and interact in the lymphoid system to generate an immune response.

UWSOD Competencies: C-03, C-08, C-11, C-12, C-15, C-17, C-24, C-30, C-31

Date last updated: 2023-11-21

DENTFN 510

Molecular and Cellular Basis of Disease

Course Director: Whasun “Sun” Oh Chung
Credits: 4
Quarters/Yr of Program: Autumn / 1

Course Overview

This course covers a broad range of topics in molecular and cellular biology, including cell basics, enzymes, protein/carbohydrate/lipid metabolism, and cancer. Students will learn how various diseases are caused and regulated at molecular and cellular levels. Successful completion of this course will help students assess what cellular changes are responsible for diseases and how to intervene in diseases that are of importance in dentistry.

Learning Objectives

The student who successfully completes this course will be able to:

1. Describe the central dogma of molecular biology and the informational roles DNA, RNA, and protein play in disease development.
2. Illustrate carbohydrate, protein, and lipid metabolism, and how each metabolic regulation leads to certain physiological outcomes.
3. Explain the functions of DNA methylation, covalent histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs in producing epigenetic effects and outcomes of specific epigenetic changes on gene expression.
4. Differentiate how defects in DNA repair pathways lead to specific syndromes and how these defects could be remedied.
5. Assess aspects of cancer pathophysiology and how each leads to a projected outcome.
6. Analyze the cell injury, inflammation, and repair processes and how each contributes to homeostasis in health and disease.

UWSOD Competencies: C-03, C-08, C-11, C-12, C-13, C-14, C-15, C-23, C-24, C-25, C-26, C-30, C-31, CE-02, CE-03, CE-06

Date last updated: 2023-09-07