2009 Catalog: All Courses

This course is a continuation of the “Basic Expanded Functions” course, which is a prerequisite. All five-cavity classifications/preparations will be covered in lecture and laboratory exercises, including amalgam and composite restorations. Lectures will review and update course participants on dental restorative materials including a discussion of bonding agents. Laboratory exercises will be performed on typodonts beginning with conservative preparations and working up to and including cusp-protected amalgam and incisal angle composite resin restorations. Also, participants will be introduced to the basics of occlusion. The course will require that the participant perform 5 cusp-protecting amalgams [CPAs] and 5 class IV composite restorations back in their clinical setting before receiving her/his certificate.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Have an understanding of the basic concepts of occlusion as they apply to restorative dentistry.
2. Be able to place and finish complex Class II amalgam restorations and composite restorations involving the incisal angle.
3. Have an understanding of the current state-of-the-art in dentinal bonding agents.
4. Have the ability to discriminate between acceptable and unacceptable restorations.

Certificate from the Basic Expanded Functions course GS-5 or eviqualent or successful completion of the Esthetic Restorative course.

Please Make Checks Payable to: Indian Health Service

c/o Rickey Thompson, Shiprock Dental Clinic

P.O. Box 160

Shiprock, NM 87420