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Materials used in orthodontics, including wires of different gauges. Instruments and consumables used for fabricating appliances. Practical fabrication of appliances and wire bending for appliances including adam’s clasp, labial bow, single cantilever spring, double cantilever spring, C-clasp, and W-wire. Clinical management of patients with various orthodontic complaints including serial extractions, removable appliances. 600 Level

Oral diagnostics. Dental therapeutics. Identification of teeth. Placement of rubber dam. Identification and placement of matrix. Band, retainers and wedges. Principles of cavity preparation. Cavity preparation including class I and II cavities. Stainless steel crown preparations and placement on anterior and posterior teeth. Veneers, space maintainers, acid- etch technique, pulp therapy including indirect and direct pulp therapy. Pulpotomy. Pulpectomy.

Blood glucose homeostasis. Glucose tolerance tests, performance and interpretation, diabetes mellitus. Formation of free fatty acid, ketone bodies and lactate. Plasma lipids, cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids and non-esterified fatty acids. Plasma lipoproteins and causes of hyper and hypolipoproteinaemia. Concept of risk factors for diseases and significance in prevention. Plasma proteins, reference values, separation of fractions and variations in health and disease. Paraproteinaemias. Bence-Jones proteinuria and significance. Renal function, dysfunction and investigations. Definitions, causes and consequences of azotaemia, uraemia, creatinine clearance. Liver function, dysfunction and investigations. Biochemical assessment of hepatic function, jaundice, hepatocellular, haemolytic and obstructive.

Hypothalamo, Neuro and adreno hypophysis, functions, dysfunctions and investigations. Pituitary, thyroid functions, dysfunctions and investigations. Biochemical assessment of gonadal function in men and women. Investigations of fertility disorders. Biomarkers of 222 cardiovascular disease. Adrenocortical function, dysfunction and disorders. Biochemical changes in pregnancy. Diagnosis of pregnancy. Assessment of foetal and placental integrity. Role of chemical pathology in the diagnosis and management of cancer. Gastrointestinal functions, dysfunction and investigations, xylose absorption, pancreolauryl test, PABA test, faecal elastase, disaccharidases test, Schilling’s test, hydrogen breath test. The role of tumour markers in screening, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of cancers.

Isolation and moisture control techniques. Patient and operator positions. Cross infection control. Illumination and magnification. Basic instrumentation. Diagnosis of common dental, pulpal and peri-apical conditions. Treatment of common dental, pulpal and peri-apical conditions.

Plasma enzymes, transaminases, alkaline and acid phosphatases, creatine kinase, lactic dehydrogenases and their uses in diagnosis and management of various diseases. Interpretation of enzyme levels in various diseases. Non-pathologic causes of elevation of selected plasma enzymes. Inborn errors of metabolism, definition, causes, consequences, and an overview of the management of common inborn errors of metabolism. Galactosaemia, lactose intolerance, albinism, aminoaciduria, phenylketonuria.

Nutritional requirements and nutritional disorders. Biochemical functions of micronutrients and trace elements. Lipid soluble vitamins. Water soluble vitamins. Coenzyme structure and functions, biochemical investigations of various micronutrients associated disorders. Nutritional support in clinical medicine, indications of enteral and parenteral nutritional support, complications of various forms of nutritional support. Role of chemical pathology laboratory in the diagnosis and monitoring of nutritional disorders and nutritional support. 239

Clinical pharmacology general aspect. Evaluation of drug therapy, clinical aspects of adverse drug reaction (inherent anomalies, acquired anomalies, treatment of adverse reactions). Basic mechanisms of drug-drug interactions. Consequences of drug-drug interactions. Clinically important drug interactions, beneficial embryonic and foetal clinical pharmacology, drug use in pregnancy, teratogenicity. Paediatric clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. Altered drug response in infants and response in infants and children, drug dosage in paediatrics. Geriatric clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. Altered drug response in the elderly drug dosage in geriatrics. 220

Application of the concepts of prevention and promotion on oral care provision in a primary healthcare setting. Practical oral health promotion to defined sub-groups, with emphasis on similarities and differences (children, pregnant women, non-literate individuals, immunocompromised states). Basic quality improvement principles to oral care provision such as audits, caregiver evaluations.

Patient assessment. Impression procedures. Bite registration. Aesthetic try-in appointments. Delivery and post-delivery care. Management of problems with different classes of dentures.