DENT 102 - Dental Materials and Lab I

1. Describe specific conditions within the oral cavity that make it such a demanding environment for the placement and long-term performance of dental materials.
2. Describe the protocols that are in place to ensure that quality control is maintained during the manufacture of dental devices and those materials for intraoral use are safe and effective.
3. Describe the types and uses of gypsum, impression materials, cements, resin and amalgam.
4. Explain the relationship between properties and the clinical performance of gypsum, impression materials, cements, resin and amalgam.
5. Compare and contrast preventive and restorative, and therapeutic dental materials.
6. List the different types of liner and bases and explain the difference in intent when placing a liner rather than a base.
7. Compare the composition, setting processes, and uses of the various impression materials.
8. Demonstrate manipulation of impression materials, cements, gypsum, resin, and amalgam materials that would be clinically useful to the dentist.
9. Produce impressions, trimmed casts, and quad-custom-made trays that are acceptable in a dentist office.
10. Demonstrate the bite registrations technique on typodont using elastomeric impression materials.

Amalgam

Esthetic

Cements

History of dental materials

Dental gypsum products

Quality assurance programs

Dental impression materials

Structure and properties of dental materials

Dental materials and the oral environment
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