Treatment of Patients with Special Needs 3
Course Director: Kimberly Espinoza
Credits: 2
Quarters/Yr of Program: Winter / 4
Course Overview
Students are exposed to the assessment process and treatment strategies for successful management of patients with developmental and acquired disabilities; geriatric patients; and anxious, fearful, or phobic patients. This is one course in a series of required courses focused on this subject and taken by all fourth-year dental students every quarter.
Learning Objectives
The student who successfully completes this course will be able to do the following:
- Provide clinical treatment using appropriate facilitation techniques for patients with developmental and acquired disabilities as well as geriatric patients.
- Assess the needs of patients with special needs, geriatric patients, and dentally fearful patients, including non-dental considerations.
- Outline the appropriate consent process when providing care for people with communication, cognitive or sensory impairments, patients requiring special care, and geriatric patients.
- Use oral health social and environmental facilitators for the oral health promotion of patients with special needs.
- Describe the different categories of dentally fearful individuals and appropriate behavioral management techniques for each patient presentation type.
- Use appropriate patient facilitation techniques for anxious patients, geriatric patients, and patients with other special needs.
- Use critical thinking to make case-specific modifications to “ideal” treatment plans for geriatric patients and patients with special needs.
- Evaluate the need for teamwork and interprofessional liaison in the management of patients requiring special care.
- Refer or arrange care for patients with complex needs.
UWSOD Competencies: C-10, C-02, C-09, C-06, CE-03, C-03, C-04, C-08, C-15, CE-01, C-14, C-28, C-12, C-13, C-31, C-17, C-05, C-11, C-30, C-18
Date last updated: 2024-07-08