CCOG for DT 272 Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- DT 272
- Course Title:
- Dental Ceramics
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Covers dental ceramics (porcelain), including the philosophy, structure, properties, uses, and laboratory procedures associated with this material. Prerequisites: DT 270 or instructor approval. Corequisites: DT 204. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Describe the purposes, uses, design considerations and techniques of using ceramics in dentistry.
- Explain the sequence of steps in designing and fabricating crowns and bridgework with ceramic components.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
- Weekly quizzes.
- Three written exams.
- Term paper 4. Attendance
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Veneer materials
- History of dental ceramics
- Understructure design
- Space requirements
- Design techniques
- Metal cleaning and conditioning
- Porcelain application procedures
- Building tooth anatomy into the restoration
- Bridge building procedures
- Visual perception of tooth contour
- Color: Matching tooth shades
- Color measurement
- Influence of light
- Surface texture
- Adjustments of color and creating illusions
- Characterization
- Porcelain jackets
- All Ceramic Crowns
- High strength veneering porcelains
- Specialized bridge techniques
- Attachments and semi-rigid connectors
- Trouble-shooting
Skills and competencies:
- Describe the chemistry, physical properties, uses in dentistry and advantages/disadvantages of ceramics.
- Define and discuss porcelain as a type of ceramic.
- Explain the purposes and uses of porcelain and resin veneer understructures in preparation for future lab projects.
- Describe the process by which porcelain is fused to metal.
- Identify the component parts of a porcelain oven and demonstrate the safe operation of the oven in the laboratory setting.
- Describe and demonstrate the techniques used to apply porcelain to a metal framework.
- Describe the philosophy and process of modifying porcelain shades, tones and color to create aesthetically pleasing and individualized crowns.
- Discuss post-firing (pre-glaze) procedures for the complete porcelain crown fabrication.
- Describe, discuss and compare PFMs, all ceramic crowns and porcelain jacket crowns according to aesthetics, marginal integrity, brand differences, tooth preparation, strength and life expectancy.
- Discuss alternative bridge design as compared to standard bridge design.
- Describe and discuss the philosophy and purpose of Maryland, California and Virginia Bridge types according to preservation of tooth structure, reduction in time and cost, and reversibility of the procedure.