LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of the course is for students to acquire the necessary scientific and applied knowledge that will enable them to design and construct fixed dental prostheses, according to modern opinions and materials;
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
• know the purposes, the goals and the necessity of the application of modern stationary dental additions and specifically veneers from polymers and ceramic materials, inlays, on-lays, and overlays of polymers and ceramic materials, fixed crowns and bridges without a metal frame made of polymers and ceramic materials, bridges partial coating (Maryland), laser welding, as well as the selective laser sintering technique.
• understand the necessity of aesthetic and functional restoration of the oral cavity with the application of these modern structures.
• acquire the scientific knowledge that determines the basic principles of manufacture of these prostheses.
• understand and analyze the rules of their design, both in the anterior and in the posterior area of the dental barrier.
• distinguish and recognize the different types of modern fixed prosthetic structures without a metal frame.
• familiarize themselves with the current data of dental technology and bio materials.
• use the various devices required to complete such constructions.
• get to know and understand, theoretically and practically, the construction stages of these fixed prosthetic structures.
• know, select and use modern materials and construction methods.
• know methods of welding prosthetic restorations with modern Laser technology.
• demonstrate that they understand the whole process of applying all previous knowledge in dental technology.
• acquire the necessary skills for their professional protection and competitiveness.
SYLLABUS
Fixed Prosthetics III is a basic subject in the training of dental technologist and a prerequisite formally and substantially for their progress in subsequent courses Curriculum. The course is taught theoretically and practically through a cycle of theoretical and laboratory courses. The theory and the laboratory go hand in hand in time as far as possible, so that students are taught theory and apply laboratory.
Theory:
1. Fixed Prosthetic Structures Without Metal Frame. This section refers to the fixed prosthetic structures without a metal frame, i.e. the veneer crowns, the inlays, on lays and overlays, on the crowns and bridges without a metal frame, made of polymers and ceramic materials of high strength, fixed CAD-CAM constructions, giving their definitions and presenting their types.
2. Fixed Prosthetic Structures Without Metal Frame. This section is a continuation of the previous one and presents the indications and contraindications, advantages and disadvantages, as well as the way of their manufacture Succinctly.
3. Inlays, on-lays, overlays from polymeric materials. This section presents and analyzes these structures, as well as their construction stages.
4. Inlays, on-lays, super-inlays of ceramic materials. This section presents and analyzes these structures, as well as their construction stages.
5. veneer crowns made of polymer additives. This section presents and analyzes these structures, as well as their construction stages.
6. veneer crowns made of ceramic materials. This section presents and analyzes these structures, as well as their construction stages.
7. Crowns without a metal frame. This section presents and analyzes these structures, as well as their construction stages.
8. Bridges without a metal frame. This section presents and analyzes these structures, as well as their construction stages.
9. Design of crowns and bridges without a metal frame, both in the front and in the posterior area of the barrier. This section analyzes the points of special attention during the design and laboratory construction of these structures.
10. Partial overlap bridges (Maryland). This section presents partial overlapping bridges, their advantages and disadvantages, their indications and contraindications, as well as the laboratory way their construction.
11. Laser welding. This section presents the modern laser welding technique in stationary prosthetics, emphasizing on its advantages and construction stages.
12.Selective Laser Sintering technique. This section presents and analyzes this modern technique of manufacturing prosthetic restorations.
Laboratory:
Along with the theoretical training, the student is trained in the laboratory of fixed Prosthetics III, creating and constructing modern fixed prosthetics constructions, both on anterior and posterior teeth following all the stages of construction and using the modern equipment of the Department’s Laboratory.
The laboratory exercises of the course are:
EXERCISE 1. Construction of casts- installation of pins
EXERCISE 2. Cutting of abutments- configuration of necks- suspension on a hinge
EXERCISE 3. Construction of the 1st and 2nd group inlays entirely from polymeric photopolymerized materials.
EXERCISE 4. Manufacture of onlays and overlays on posterior teeth entirely from polymeric photopolymerized materials.
EXERCISE 5. Manufacture of veneer prostheses from polymers of photopolymerized materials in anterior teeth of the upper jaw.
EXERCISE 6. Manufacture of veneer prostheses from polymers of photopolymerized materials on anterior teeth of the lower jaw.
EXERCISE 7. Manufacture of crowns of anterior teeth of the upper jaw without a metal frame. 1st stage
EXERCISE 8. Manufacture of crowns of anterior teeth of the upper jaw without a metal frame. 2nd stage.
EXERCISE 9. Manufacture of crowns of anterior teeth of the lower jaw without a metal frame. 1st stage.
EXERCISE 10. Manufacture of crowns of anterior teeth of the lower jaw without a metal frame. 2nd stage.
EXERCISE 11. Grinding and polishing of all previous structures.
EXERCISE 12. Laser bridge sections welding technique. Construction demonstration.
EXERCISE 13.Final practical laboratory evaluation on the content of exercises 1-12 (I)