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This course will provide the scientific basis for caries (dental decay) risk assessment and practice interventions. You will immediately be able to apply “caries management by risk assessment” into your clinical setting or into your personal health care.
课程大纲
- Understand what dental caries is
- Understand the concept of the caries balance
- Know the three principal pathological factors of caries formation
- Understand that multiple bacterial species are responsible for dental caries
- Understand the role of frequent ingestion of fermentable carbohydrates in dental caries
- Recognize hyposalivation, how this occurs, and its importance in caries progression
- Refine the concept of the caries balance
- Know and understand the multiple caries protective components in saliva
- Understand demineralization and the role of fluoride
- Understand remineralization and the role of fluoride
- Understand remineralization and the role of fluoride
- Understand how fluoride interacts with cariogenic bacteria
- Know the three main mechanisms of action of fluoride
- Know about fluoride toothpastes and fluoride mouthrinses
- Know about fluoride products for the dental office and for home use by prescription
- Know why high concentration fluoride products are used for high caries risk individuals
- Know the antibacterial products currently available for caries control
- Understand the root caries process including similarities and differences with coronal caries
- Understand the distinction among disease indicators, pathological (biological risk) factors, and protective factors
- Know that the CAMBRA risk assessment method is validated in clinical use in thousands of patients for 6 years through adult
- Know the bacterial assessment methods
- Understand the sequence for the entire CAMBRA method
- Know how to assess caries risk for an individual as low, moderate, high, or extreme
- Know the currently recommended chemical therapy for patients at low, moderate, high, or extreme risk
- To study numerous examples of risk assessment and therapy and how to build this into the treatment plan
- Understand the differences between risk assessment for young children, older children, and adults
教师
- John Featherstone - School of Dentistry
内容设计师
The University of California, San Francisco, is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and high-quality patient care. UC San Francisco is the only campus in the University of California system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. UCSF's innovative, collaborative approaches for health care, research and education span disciplines across the health sciences and make it a world leader in scientific discovery and its translation into improved health.
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Coursera是一家数字公司，提供由位于加利福尼亚州山景城的计算机教师Andrew Ng和达芙妮科勒斯坦福大学创建的大型开放式在线课程。
Coursera与顶尖大学和组织合作，在线提供一些课程，并提供许多科目的课程，包括：物理，工程，人文，医学，生物学，社会科学，数学，商业，计算机科学，数字营销，数据科学 和其他科目。
