Importance of patient medical histories

Importance of oral hygiene practices

Importance of dietary and tobacco use 

Vital signs

 Extra-oral and intra-oral examination

Perform analog and digital radiography and take clinical photographs

Guiding of how to take impressions, cast, trim, and polish study cast.

Diagnosis and treatment plan

Make a differential diagnosis

Make a dental hygiene diagnosis and develop an appropriate treatment plan within the scope of the profession of the oral hygienist.

Advise and educate patients about oral self-care practices, including mechanical and chemotherapeutic plaque control, nutritional counseling, and tobacco cessation.

Advise patients about the dietary supplements, such as vitamins, fluoride tablets, mouth rinses, and other anti-microbial agents

Guiding on how to apply topical agents such as caries-preventive agents, remineralizing agents, tooth-desensitizing agents, topical anesthetics and plaque-controlling agents

Online guidance on how to apply pit and fissure sealants

Online guidance on how to perform scaling of teeth and polishing of teeth

Online guidance on how to make study casts to produce protective vacuum-formed mouthguards.

Online guidance on how to apply minimally invasive procedures such as atraumatic restorative techniques (ART)

Online guidance on how to apply minimally invasive procedures such as sealant restorations

Online guidance on  how to treat dentine hypersensitivity and cervical abrasion lesions with glass ionomer cement or appropriate materials

Online guidance on how to perform root debridement

Online guidance on how to have good cosmetic care

Online guidance on how to apply vital tooth bleaching (whitening) techniques and procedures

Online guidance on how to assist dental therapists, dentists, dental specialists in the performance of basic and advanced clinical procedures.

Periodontics -Online guidance on how to apply and remove periodontal packs

Online guidance on how to remove surgical sutures

Conservative Dentistry and Prosthodontics:

i) All the below things will be guided online on how to place temporary restorations as an emergency measure;

ii). perform temporary cementing of inlays, crowns, and bridges

iii). place soft linings indentures as tissue conditioners

iv). place and remove rubber dam and matrix bands

Orthodontics: 

i)perform cephalometric tracings; 

ii)relieve trauma caused by intra-and extraoral appliances, such as the cutting of distal ends of archwires;

iii)take impressions, cast and trim study and primary work models;

iv) place pre-activated orthodontic appliances, remove orthodontic attachments and bands (place and remove elastics and ligature wires, place and activate archwires);

Dental Anatomy