Competency information

Details

Plan, design, manufacture and evaluate dental devices for patients with fractures involving the mandible, maxilla and middle third of the facial skeleton.

Considerations

  • Follow local laboratory procedures and protocols.
  • Identify different methods of treatment.
  • Infection control standards for possibly infective situations (blood and body fluids).
  • The relevant, current health and safety regulations specific to procedures in maxillofacial prosthetics and reconstruction.
  • Potential hazards and risks and the actions to be taken to minimise these.
  • Expected treatment outcomes and assessment of quality, audit of outcomes.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 6 Outcome Plan, design, manufacture and evaluate dental devices for patients with fractures involving the mandible, maxilla and middle third of the facial skeleton.