Department of Preclinical Dentistry started its new activity on November 1, 2011, after the existing infrastructure of the Faculty of Dentistry’s Education Centre allowed the creation of an independent institute from the Faculty’s phantom head laboratory.
The Department is the only educational institution of its kind in Hungary today.
From the academic year 2012-2013, the subject of General Dental Practice has been taught as a compulsory one-semester preclinical course. The Hungarian students learn the theoretical (1 hour per week – lecture) and practical (3 hours per week) basics in the 2nd semester, the foreign students in the 3rd semester.
Our aim is to train 1st and 2nd year dental students for the practical phases of clinical dental activities requiring high precision and increased manual dexterity. In the theoretical part of the course, students will learn about macroscopic anatomy of teeth, international dental marking systems, basic dental diseases and their aetiology, dental epidemiology, and the basics of dental infection control, waste management and environmental protection. During the practices, students will gain an insight into minimally and microinvasive techniques, the operation of the Central Sterilisation Department of the Training Centre, the equipment of the dental practice and the structure of the dental treatment unit.
During the practical sessions, students will exercise the most important clinical steps of conservative dentistry and prosthodontics on phantom heads, using simulation, and will learn the theoretical and practical principles of periodontology, paediatric dentistry and orthodontics, as well as oral surgery, which they will then apply in clinical practice.
The semester ends with an oral colloquium.
OUR PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:
- theoretical and practical teaching of general dental prosthodontics
- examination and treatment of patients suffering from dry mouth, treatment and research of dry mouth
- 3D printing researches, research in the production of dental models by 3D printing
- education and research on environmental protection and dental sustainability, waste management in the dental environment
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