Dental Technology and Dental Prosthetics

This double degree is ideal for all those students who are thinking about developing hands on practicalskills in designing and building dentures, crowns and bridges, combined with assessing, designing and fitting removable dentures directly to patients.  For secondary school leavers, it will provide opportunities for specialisation and more chances for job upongraduation.Students graduate with two qualifications to be able to work as both a Dental Technician and Dental Prosthetist.  They unite art and science skills to make custommade dental devices such as dentures, crowns, bridges and dental appliances to restore, restore and correct defects that might impact our facial appearance and the ability to useour teeth correctly. They generally work behind the scenes from laboratories and not directly on patients.Dental Prosthetists function independently with clinical patients to diagnose and cure them whenever they require removable partial or full dentures.The first few years will likely be spent developing highly-specialised hand skills, finishing with a professional training course where students utilize homeschooling pupils on"reallife real time" patient cases.  The final fourth year builds on the prior years with a focus on developing clinical awareness and skills to diagnose, design, make and fit dentures right to patients.A amount of key benefits placed Griffith's Dental Prosthetist education apart from additional teaching institutions. Students develop complex critical analytical skills to solve difficult technical and clinical conditions. They learn from a inter-professional environment from experienced Dental Prosthetists and specialists within their field such as for example:Cosmetic PathologyPharmacologyRadiologyProsthodontistDental Prosthetic students clinic alongside Dentistry learners to develop communicating andcollaboration skills in human scenarios. This might include, as an example,mimicking and monitoring instantaneous dentures or witnessing various complexdental procedures. This practice is handled throughout the Team-Based TreatmentPlanning Process which develops patient referral skills.

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