Dental Prosthesis

Applied Technology I2

Tecnologia Aplicada I

Course code:9791211

José Eduardo Pereira Monteiro Ribeiro

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

GENERAL:

  • Develop in students the spirit of research and scientific rigor .
  • Provide the student knowledge about:
    • The history and development of the dental prosthesis ;
    • The fundamental principles of materials for prosthetic purposes
    • The planning and production of all-ceramic crowns
    • New technologies applied to dentures
  • Develop in students the habit of study, the accuracy and precision in the correct use of technical and professional language.
  • Encourage curiosity and interest of the student, so he , with new ideas , contribute to the development of Prosthodontics.

SPECIFIC:

  • Continue to the subjects taught in the course, with particular focus in the disciplines of Fixed Prosthodontics and Ceramics.
  • Completing this study , students should be able to demonstrate in writing , orally and in practice that acquired the basics to plan and fabricate all-ceramic fixed prosthesis knowledge.
  • It also aims to provide the student with the development of manual dexterity essential to Technical Prosthodontics , by building all-ceramic dental prostheses.

At the end of the course, the student should be able to identify and either run:

  • The basic principles of obtaining structures in alumina and zirconia
  • The dental materials used in the discipline
  • The need for construction and ceramic laminates procedures
  • Concepts of light, color, aesthetics
  • Build aesthetic and functional restorations
  • Build prostheses through ceramic injection methods
Syllabus:
  1. Technique of obtaining working models, casts and dies systems.
  2. Base for ceramic veneering structures.
  3. The golden grid.
  4. Injection ceramic lithium di-silicate by the cut-back system.
  5. Professional technique for layering of ceramic materials.
  6. Colour, light and ranges of standard and custom colour.
  7. Manual milling systems for structures in zirconia (pantographs).
  8. CAD systems for the manufacture of dental structures.
  9. CAM systems for manufacturing dental structures.
  10. Electro-deposited telescopic crowns in gold.
  11. Casting or milling advantages and disadvantages.
 
Suggested Bibliography:
  • Bruguera A (2002) Sombras, un mundo de color, puesta al dia publicaciones, S.L.
  • Anusavice, KJ (2003) Phillip’s Science of Dental Materials, 13th ed., W.B. Saunders Company.
  • Ash MM & Nelson SJ (2003) Wheeler´s dental anatomy, physiology, and occlusion, 8th ed., Saunders.