| Unit name | Foundational Restorative and Surgical Planning |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ORDSM0079 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Mrs. Lizzie King |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | Bristol Dental School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Why is this unit important?
Preparation is the key to success, and this couldn’t be truer for planning dental implants. Dental implant planning starts with a comprehensive understanding of the intended restoration, so the fundamentals of restoratively-driven planning are focused on in this unit. Restorative options and implant positioning for small span restorations are explained and practiced in hands-on sessions. Traditional versus digital workflows are taught to develop your restorative skills and enhance your communication with the dental laboratory. Special investigations including CBCT training are taught to enable safe, best-practice planning. Planning for additional surgical procedures is also paramount, so this unit builds on your surgical knowledge and skills by teaching guided bone regeneration via in-person teaching and hands-on surgical exercises. Understanding the risk factors for common complications can help clinicians plan for success whilst developing confidence in managing failures. The short-term complications associated with dental implant treatment are taught to encourage holistic patient care.
How does this unit fit into your programme of study?
This unit fits into the second teaching block of the first academic year of the Dental Implantology MSc programme. It covers core disciplinary competencies that are required to safely treat patients who require dental implants. This unit complements the direct clinical care of patients seen and treated in the Foundational Clinical Practice unit alongside which it runs.
An overview of content
This unit covers restoratively-driven implant planning for small span restorations, guided bone regeneration, traditional and digital workflows and special investigations relating to implant dentistry.
How will students, personally, be different as a result of the unit
What you know:
You will know how to treatment plan for small span restorations and deliver implant-retained restorations using traditional and digital workflows. You will know how to plan for and provide guided bone regeneration. You will know how to plan implants using CBCT scans.
How you think:
You will learn to think about implant planning from a restorative perspective. You will appreciate how fundamental pre-operative planning is to ensure the best outcomes for dental implant treatment.
What you can do:
You will be able to recognise different implant restorations, take analogue and digital impressions and plan small span restorations. You will know how CBCT scans are used for planning dental implants.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the unit you will:
1. Understand the concept of restoratively driven implant planning for small-unit fixed prostheses
2. Be familiar with the biomaterials used for implant restorations
3. Have knowledge of the occlusal and biomechanical factors that affect implant treatment
4. Perform traditional and digital workflows for dental implant delivery
5. Understand how to use special investigations required to successfully plan implants
6. Understand the epidemiology, success and survival of dental implant-retained restorations
7. Know the techniques for implant exposure
8. Have a basic understanding of how to assess a patient’s need for bone augmentation
9. Have had experience of the surgical procedure of guided bone regeneration (GBR)
10. Have knowledge of common complications of implant surgery and their management
Lectures – in-person and remote lectures will be provided to deliver larger topics in manageable pieces. These will encourage critical thinking, student interaction, motivation to learn, and an appreciation of various perspectives and values.
Small group work – you will work in groups to discuss and treatment plan unseen cases. You will be encouraged to solve problems as a team and work with your peers to enhance your learning.
Hands-on practical sessions – hand-on surgical sessions will allow you to directly practice your clinical skills with close mentorship to provide personalised feedback and reflection of skills.
Tasks which help you learn and prepare you for summative tasks (formative):
Case discussions to treatment plan traditional and digital workflows. This exercise will provide you with the experience of assessing an unseen case and working through it in a systematic way to describe how you would provide treatment using digital and traditional workflows. This will provide you with the experience and structured thinking required to complete the Unseen Case Assessments.
Workplace-based assessments undertaken within the hands-on elements will enable you to reflect on how you apply the taught knowledge into practical skills. Direct feedback will be given to ensure you understand how to refine your surgical skills prior to treating patients. This learning will complement the knowledge tested in the examination and formative clinical assessments in the Foundational Clinical Practice unit.
Example questions will be provided with the opportunity to discuss them with a tutor will prepare you for the End of unit knowledge assessment.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
End of unit knowledge assessment (50%)
Unseen Case assessments – structured oral examinations to test your ability to assess, diagnose, treatment plan and describe treatment stages for two unseen clinical cases. 2 x cases (50%)
When assessment does not go to plan
If you do not pass the unit, you will normally be given the opportunity to take a reassessment as per the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes. Decisions on the award of reassessment will normally be taken after all taught units of the year have been completed. Reassessment will normally be in a similar format to the original assessment that has been failed.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. ORDSM0079).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
