
Dental Laboratory Procedures
Course Number: 31508309
Credits: 4.00
Course Description
31-508-309 DENTAL LABORATORY PROCEDURES...prepares Dental Assistant students to produce alginate impressions and fabricate diagnostic models, oral appliances, temporary restorations, and custom trays. Students also polish oral appliances. (Prerequisites: 31-508-304, Dental & Gen Anatomy; 10-508-113, Dental Materials; all other 2nd semester classes; Corequisite: 31-508-308, Dental Chairside-Advanced; all other 3rd semester classes)
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Course Competencies
- Produce detailed alginate impressions of a quality for case presentation models
- Produce finished and polished diagnostic models of a quality for case presentation
- Fabricate custom impression trays
- Polish oral appliances
- Prepare preformed provisional tooth coverage
- Prepare custom provisional tooth coverage
- Explain the indications, procedure, and benefits of indirect restoration to a patient
- Articulate models
- Produce bite registration
- Prepare laboratory case for shipment