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Wound healing, soft and hard tissues. Systemic conditions of importance to the oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Review of clerkship, with a bias to oral and maxillofacial surgery. Pre- operative assessment of the maxillofacial patient. Principles of minor oral surgery. Asepsis, aseptic techniques and sterilisation in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Clinical investigations in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Review of local anaesthesia in dentistry. Introduction to exodontia indications and contraindications for tooth extraction. Pre-operative assessment in intra-alveolar/trans alveolar extractions. Intra-alveolar exodontia. Trans-alveolar exodontia. Complications of extraction and management. Surgery including vision. Access preoperative patient assessment in exodontias. Principles and complications of tooth extractions.

Commonly used terms and conditions in oral medicine and their clinical applications. History taking. Examination. Investigations. Informed consent and pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics. Routes of drug administration. Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions. Proper prescription writing. Drug properties and dosages. Proper use of antibiotics, classifications, modes of action, and dosages. Referral in oral medicine.

History and development of Orthodontics – define Orthodontics, orthodontic treatment in contemporary dental practice, goals of orthodontic treatment, terminology in orthodontics, classification of orthodontic cases viz class I, class II and class III. orthodontic model making and trimming. Muscles of mastication and expression (facial). Review of the safety and the science of dental procedures, while introducing the skills required for manipulating wires and acrylic to fabricate orthodontic appliances. The anatomical study tooth repositioning and the appliances associated with orthodontics.

Terminologies in Orthodontics. Define orthodontics. Define occlusion. Define normal occlusion. Define malocclusion. Define centric occlusion. Identify broadly when there is malocclusion. Identify orthodontic appliances. Advice and Care of orthodontic appliance.

General and dental developmental milestones in children, and the differences between management in the adult and in the child. Eruption of teeth, and the difference between the adult and child dentition. Principles of child psychology, non-pharmacological and pharmacological options for behavior management and pain control. Introduction to paediatric dentistry. Milestones in child development. Development of the dentition. Review of clerkship with bias to paediatric dentistry. Child psychology. Pain control for children. Non- pharmacological management. Pharmacological management.

Communication skills. History taking and physical examination. Fluids and instruments/equipment used in paediatric practice. Types of fluids, colloids, crystalloids, oral resuscitation, fluids and intravenous fluids, composition and uses of common oral fluids and intravenous fluids. Common instruments and equipment with practical bedside demonstration. Procedures in paediatric practice. Venepuncture, naso gastric tube insertion. Setting up of intravenous fluid infusions. Lumbar puncture. Exchange blood transfusion. Bone marrow 115 aspiration. Blood film for malaria parasite. Urine, stool and cerebrospinal fluid microscopy. Gram stain and chemistry.

Compare the deciduous with the permanent dentition. Identify the types of teeth in the deciduous dentition. Classify teeth of the deciduous dentition. Describe the anatomy of each tooth in the deciduous dentition. Explain relationship of root formation to tooth eruption. Identify the eruption dates in the deciduous dentition. State the age when space for permanent teeth is well established. Identify conditions that lead to space loss in deciduous dentition. Explain need for tooth retention before exfoliation in children. Estimate the age of the child. Describe possible reactions of the child to the dental environment. Describe possible motivational actions above, and describe possible ways of sustaining the child’s attention. Identify the child examination instruments. Eexamine the oral cavity (deciduous model) of the child using mouth mirror, examine the teeth (deciduous model) using the periodontal probes. Demonstrate the use of tweezer on the model. Identify possible oral presentation observable in the oral cavity. List possible diagnosis above such as carious lesions. Explain dental caries in children. Describe and apply dental caries control in children. Identify conditions other than caries that are common in children. Explain the mode of control of the conditions. Plan simple treatment and referral of cases such as Oral health education, scaling and polishing.

Meaning of pattern drafting; tools and equipment used in pattern drafting; pattern drafting terms and symbols. The principles and practice of the cutting room; How to analyse a design/style; types and methods of obtaining patterns; use and importance of basic blocks. Pattern drafting and pattern layout. Differences and similarities between commercial and drafted patterns; Body Measurement and size chart; Use and importance of basic blocks; drafting of basic blocks: front and back bodice, front and back skirts, sleeve and pants; Dart positions, and; Introduction to dart manipulations. Adaptation of basic blocks into simple styles for different activities.

Description of petrochemical plant and a petrochemical engineer. Raw materials for the petrochemical industry and examples of petrochemicals; the importance of petrochemical to the nation. Ancillary facilities in petrochemical plant; Petrochemical Engineering process flow charts, and process symbols. The concept of units and dimensions: the concept and basis of measurement and analysis of pressure, temperature, volume, and other parameters. Basic definitions: chemical equations and stoichiometry. Combustion. Ideal gas laws. Real gas relationships. Vapour pressure, saturation, and humidity. 200 Level

Analysis of material balances for multiple systems. Analysis of material balances problems with direct solutions. Material balances using algebraic techniques control surface and stage balances for open and closed systems. Problems involving species and elements for reacting and non-reacting systems. Material balances in process flow sheets. Energy balances procedures, energy balances for reactive and non-reactive processes, heat capacity. Calculation and enthalpy changes, without change of phase and for phase transitions. The heat of reaction combined mass and energy systems for steady-state and unsteady- state processes. Computer-aided combined mass and energy balance calculations. 300 Level