W4 Legislation, comp Flashcards
Define AHPRA & what does it do?
Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency - Responsible for implementing the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme in Aus. Inc Dental Board
What is AHPRA’s role?
Management of registration for health practitioners and complaints process
Who is the Dental Board of Australia?
It was established under national law and regulates practitioners in Aus by APHRA
What is the Dental Boards function?
Set registration standards, develops codes and guidelines for the profession, accreditation
How many hours and what period are we required to dedicate to CPD?
A minimum of 60 hours of CPD activities over 3 years
What is Professional Indemnity Insurance Registration Standard
Applies to all practitioners (not students). Must include civil liability cover, retroactive cover where necessary, and reinstatement
What is Professional Indemnity Insurance Registration Standard
Applies to all practitioners (not students). Must include civil liability cover, retroactive cover where necessary, and reinstatement
Define Dentist scope of practice
Dentistry involves assessing, preventing, diagnosing,
advising on, and treating any injuries, diseases,
deficiencies, deformities or lesions on or of the human
teeth, mouth or jaws or associated structures. It
includes restricted dental acts (see section 121 of the
National Law)
Define OHT scope of practice
Focus: oral health, with qualifications in dental therapy and dental hygiene. Services: assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, prevention. May include: restorative treatment, fillings, tooth removal, periodontal treatment, other oral care to promote healthy oral behaviours. Patients: age of 26
What is composite?
- Organic - Bis-MA, UDMA, TEGMA
- Inorganic filler: glass, silica, Glass, zinc, zirconium
- Coupling agent: to bind fillers to the matrix
- Accelorators/initators: LC or SC
What times of classifications are there for composite?
Heterogeneous (irrgeular)
Hemogenous
Hybrid
Name 3 advances in composite
- Nanotechnology
- Intro to reduce 3.shrinkage
- Particles that release F-
Name 3 clinical advantages of composite
- Aesthetic
- Handling
- Suitable for minimal adhesion denistry
Name 3 clinical disadvantages of composite
- Not resistant to plaque formation
- Polymerisation shrinkage
- Not to be used in high occlusion load
- Technique sensitive
Describe flowable resin
Viscous
Low compressive strength
High polymerization shrinkage
Not recommended for stress resto
How do you reduce polymerisation shrinkage?
- Incremental placement
- Using a base such as GIC
- Using a strong bond
- Light curing - to prevent marginal leakage
What direction will polymerisation shrink?
Towards the direction of the light source
What can vary the bonding/adhesive system?
- Wettability of the substrate (resin tags)
- Viscosity of the adhesive
- Morphology and roughness of substrate
Chemically describe enamel adhesive system
Etching removes plaque, creates microporsities, increased wettability
Any contact with other liquid reduces wettability
Chemically describe dentin adhesive system
Remove smear layer
Don’t over dry
Use primer
Bonding is through hybridisation
What is the fucntion of etchant/conditioner?
FUcntion to create a clean surface for bonding, remove smear layer to enable primer to form a hybrid layer
What is the function of primer
Promote adhesion to dentine, coupling afent between hydrophillic dentine and hydrophobic resin
What is the function of bpnd?
Provide better curing and seal dentinal tubules, helps resist shrinkage
What generation is gold standard?
4th three step, completely removes smear layer - indicated when retention is poor
What generation self etch
6th, 7th & 8th, only partially removes smear layer
Can you etch enamel and dentin together?
No, enamel requires a strong etch for a longer period.
Dentin requires a weaker, shorter conditioning (avoid harming collagen fibers)
What do we chart?
Soft tissue exam finding, extra/intra oral
Hard tissue
BOP, recession, mobility, furcation, PD, plaque, calculus
What is the general obligation for making a mandatory notification?
Sexual misconduct, alcohol or drug which directly impairs persons capacity to work
What is a reasonable belief?
You need direct knowledge, not just suspicion of the incident or behaviour
What is considered an impairment?
A physical or mental impairment, disability, condition or disorder that detrimentally affects persons capacity to practice the profession
What are the key aspects of the Code of Conduct?
- Providing good care
- Wokring with pts/other practitioners within the HC system
- Minimizing risk
- Maintaining professional performance CPD
- Professional behavior
- Ensuring practitioner health
How do you provide good care?
Working within scope of practice, maintaining adequate knowledge CPD
What is the chemistry of GIC?
Make out of a powder (reactive glass) and liquid(poly-alkeonic ) water. Acid/base reaction to form water based cement
What is a resin-modified glass-ionomer cement?
Inclusion of small quanity of additional resin-mostly HEMA - as well as photoinitatiors and other reactive chemicals
What are Compomers?
Polyacid-modified composite resins, which is able to release fluoride
What is the water balance for GIC?
Water in: immediately critical for autocure cement
Water out: critical for 6 months
Water in is less critical for resin-modified cements
Water out: is critical for two weeks
How we do protect our GIC after placement?
Use of vaseline, G coat or cocobutter, they give resistance to water uptake and loss
How does GIC bond?
Ionic exchange - may only occur in the presence of water (hydrophillic)
What is the smear layer?
Something the practitioners makes while prepping, enamel dentin, bacteria. Never etch the tooth because it will reduce potential ion exchange