DL 124 - Lab for DL 123

Credit Hours: 3

Construction of inlays, crowns and bridges in the anterior and posterior regions, plus the introduction of implantology.

Course Outcomes
This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic procedures used in fixed restorations. Construction of crowns and short span bridges. Emphasis will be placed on casts and dies, types of tooth preparations employed by dentists, methods correctly trimming and preparing dies and the technique of manipulating inlay wax to develop wax patterns.

Upon completion of this course the student should be able to accomplish the following procedures:

explain the various clinical and laboratory procedures necessary to fabricate a fixed restoration;
list and describe the various types of fixed restorations fabricated in the dental laboratory;
construct a full crown;
construct a partial crown;
explain the purpose of an individual custom impression tray and construct a clinically acceptable quadrant custom impression tray from a diagnostic cast;
list the requirements of an acceptable working cast and fabricate from the impression and accurate, bubble free cast with removable dies;
identify the margins and correctly prepare, trim, and ditch the removable dies; and
correctly manipulate inlay wax and fabricate clinically acceptable wax patterns for various fixed restorations.

Prerequisites: DL 111, DL 112, DL 113, DL 114
Concurrent Registration: DL 123
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