Dentistry

Dentistry: An e-Learning Resource for Dental Trainees and Practitioners

e-Den covers the knowledge and skills needed to be a competent, caring dental practitioner.

It has over 300 learning sessions, you can explore all aspects of the dental curriculum, from patient assessment through to periodontal disease and teeth restoration. You can gain experience in assessing, diagnosing and managing all kinds of dental issues and enhance your softer skills, such as communicating with patients.

Course Content

This online dental training programme consists of over a dozen modules, each of which is divided into smaller learning sessions. Each learning session takes around 20 minutes to complete.

The modules are as follow:

1) Patient Assessment

• Profiling the Patient
• Assessment Methods and Techniques
• Good Practice
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

2) Human Diseases/Medical and Dental Emergencies

• Medical Topics and Dentistry
• Medical Emergencies in Dentistry

3) Anxiety and Pain Control in Dentistry

• Principles of Dental Pain
• Mediators of Central Pain
• Dental Local Anaesthesia
• Dental Local Anaesthetic Technique
• Management of Dental Pain
• Non-pharmacological Anxiety Management
• Intravenous Sedation
• Inhalation Sedation
• Dental General Anaesthesia

4) Periodontal Disease and Management

• Aetiology of Periodontal Disease
• Periodontal Diagnosis and Determination of Prognosis
• Periodontal Treatment Options
• Patient Education and Self-performed Plaque Control
• Non-surgical Periodontal Therapy
• Surgical Periodontal Therapy

5) Hard and Soft Tissue Surgery

• Pre- and Post-operative Assessment
• Exodontia
• Surgical Dentistry
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
• Management of Unerupted, Impacted, Ectopic and Supernumerary Teeth
• Management of Benign Soft Tissue Lesions

6) Surgical and Non-surgical Management of Head and Neck Disease

• Accurate Drug History and Relevance of Allergies
• Odontogenic Infections
• Management of Oral Mucosal Diseases
• Neoplastic and Non-neoplastic Disease of the Head and Neck
• Craniofacial Pain Disorders

7) Management of the Developing Dentition