Appraisal of removable partial denture service in a dental faculty for (2005-2010). A retrospective study

摘要

One of the parameters that may be used to evaluate the clinical teaching appraisal and the competency of undergraduate students is their clinical training outcome yearly or within certain time; individually or collectively. The time required for managing one patient, facilities provided, the quality of offered service, the major types of Kennedy classes treated, all of these can provide the teaching authority with an overview of clinical teaching problems encountered by the learners and weak areas in training program that need further development. The aim was to analyze the clinical service of undergraduate students offered during their clinical learning program in prosthetic dentistry at the faculty of dentistry from 2005-2010. The data were collected from prosthetic dentistry archive of the patients visiting the clinics from 2005-2010. Results revealed that men seek treatment more than women. Patient's age was related to increase in removable partial denture demand. Chinese attended the prosthetic clinics more than other ethnic groups. Hypertension and diabetes mellitus represented the highest general diseases among patients. Kennedy Class III patients were the most group seeking prosthetic replacement. Acrylic resin material was mostly used for fabrication of partial denture. The average time needed by the student to treat one partially edentulous patient was 4 months. Recall for successfully issued partial dentures was 84.2%. For maxillary arch, 1% of the lab forms were filled properly before sending to the technician. However, in mandibular arch, the problem was worse. One of the important feedback of this study indicated that gingival uncover was used systematically in less than 20% of the treated cases. Therefore, more academic clinical efforts are required to develop and update the clinical skill, knowledge and training methods for undergraduate dental students.