semmelweis university 2 0 1 2 / 2 0 1 3

SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
334
Note: Lectures will be held in the lecture hall of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and
Dentistry
The maximum number of absences in a semester is 3. More than 3 absences invalidate
the semester During the semester two midterm examinations should be passed
Practical course grade.
INTRODUCTION TO THE ODONTOTECHNOLOGY AND PROSTODONTICS
PRECLINICAL COURSE
Since the creation of an independent training, the Stomatological curriculum has put great
emphasis on a preclinical foundation course, the Prosthodontics Propaedeutic course, the syllabus
of which has also included mastery of dental techniques, indispensable for a dentist. Until the visit
of the EU Committee in the late 90s, the course was structured in such a manner that in the first
and second semester of the second academic year students had 3 hours of practices and one
hour of lecture per week; during the first semester treatment of complete edentolousness was
simulated through fabrication of complete dentures, while in the second semester students
prepared 3-unit bridges and single crowns on partial edentolous moulages. During both semesters,
medical and dental laboratory steps followed each other just like in real life, and students
performed alternatively medical work phases and dental laboratory tasks, for one week each. After
the proposal of the EU Committee on the amendment of several courses (including the
Prosthodontics Preclinical course), dental laboratory and medical work phases had to be separated
sharply, while an independent Odontotechnology course had to be included in the curriculum.
According to the request, this Odontotechnology course was built into the theoretical module in
order to provide the earliest possible recognition and consolidation of the chosen profession.
Taken more than ten years of experience into account, while maintaining the values that
undoubtedly resulted from these changes, we wish to modify those controversial points that in our
opinion can be still improved. A sharp separation of the two disciplines (dental techniques and
dentistry) rather confuses students, thus they fail to get a grip of the process, and it is the essence
that is lost, since these processes are based each on the other. The essence of the new syllabus
is the integration of the two courses that are currently taught separately, and thus new and crucial
areas (not taught so far) can be emphasized, with concomitant reduction of teaching hours and
credit points.
The curriculum of the course concludes with a comprehensive examination at the end of the first
semester of the third academic year.
Timing of the Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics Preclinical course:
3rd ,4th and 5th Semester
Preliminary studies requested for the course of Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics Preclinical
course module I:
General Dental Material Science
Preliminary studies requested for the course of Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics preclinical
course module II:
Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics preclinical course module I
Preliminary studies requested for the course of Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics Preclinical
course module III:
Odontotechnology and Prosthodontics Preclinical course module II