Competency information
Details
Undertake pre-surgical planning for a simple surgical procedure and analyse your findings.
Considerations
- Legal, professional and ethical requirements of providing pre- surgical plans and operative guides.
- Surgical techniques for mandibular osteotomies.
- Model based pre-operative planning systems.
- Computer-aided planning systems for orthognathic surgery.
- Design principles for operative wafers for mandibular osteotomies.
- Factors affecting accuracy and reproducibility of dental gypsum casts.
- Use of 3D printing for dental casts.
- Factors affecting reproduction of occlusal relationships.
- Occlusal records, clinical techniques patient preparation and care, materials for occlusal records selection and use, accuracy and reproducibility.
- Selection and use of articulators and facebows, intra- and extra-oral tracings.
- Simulation of opening and eccentric movements.
- Cephalometric planning systems, manual and computer based.
- Cephalometric landmarks.
- Racial and gender variation.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 3 | Outcome Identify and classify common craniofacial anomalies and complete pre- surgical planning for simple procedures using clinical assessment, image analysis, 3D modelling data and dental casts. |