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Dec 07, 2025
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HDP 621 - Year II Periodontics Clinic
Applying didactic knowledge to actual clinical situations is required as the student examines the patient, formulates a treatment plan, and renders treatment. In this regard, the student should be able to determine the chief complaint of the patient, obtain a detailed past and present medical history, family medical history, past personal and family dental history, social history including patient’s attitude towards his/her dentition and expectations of treatment. The student should be able to obtain vital signs and perform extra-oral (head and neck) and intra-oral examinations. The intra-oral examination will consist of a hard and soft tissue exam including the teeth and the periodontium. In addition, an examination of the patient’s occlusion and the temporomandibular joints will be completed. The student is expected to interpret the radiographic findings detected in the panoramic, bite-wings and periapical radiographs, and determine whether they are normal or abnormal. The student will correlate the radiographic finding with the clinical findings and then arrive at the diagnosis of the patient’s condition. The student will identify the etiological factors (local and systemic) which contribute to the development of disease and prognosticate the patient’s overall dental and periodontal condition as well as that of the individual teeth. Subsequently, the student should be able to formulate an adequate treatment plan, render periodontal treatment (whether preventive or therapeutic) as outlined, evaluate the outcome of the treatment, and schedule periodontal maintenance. At the periodontal maintenance appointment, the student should be able to update the medical history, conduct a clinical examination to determine periodontal health status, obtain additional radiographs when necessary, review or institute corrective measures for plaque control and render adequate treatment when deemed necessary.
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