Tooth Wear Workbook PDF

**Tooth Wear** **Student name:** This workbook is to be completed as part of your self-directed study and learning for Tooth Wear. **\ ** **Section 1:** To be completed with Tooth Wear 1 **Section 2:** To be completed with Tooth Wear 2 **Section 3: To be completed with Tooth Wear 2** **Sectio...

**Tooth Wear** **Student name:** This workbook is to be completed as part of your self-directed study and learning for Tooth Wear. **\ ** **Section 1:** To be completed with Tooth Wear 1 **Section 2:** To be completed with Tooth Wear 2 **Section 3: To be completed with Tooth Wear 2** **Section 4: Glossary of terms** **Learning resources and reading** **Essential reading -** Evidence-based guidance: - **Chapter 7: Tooth Wear**; Delivering Better Oral Health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention. Fourth Edition, 2021. - **Chapter 2: Summary Table 4 Prevention of Tooth Wear**; Delivering Better Oral Health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention. Fourth Edition, 2021. **Additional reading -** Articles: - **Aeitiology of Tooth Wear** Kaidonis JA. Oral diagnosis and treatment planning: part 4. Non-carious tooth surface loss and assessment of risk. Br Dent J. 2012 Aug;213(4):155-61. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2012.722. PMID: 22918343. (included on Moodle in resources) - **Guideline to the BEWE use** Aránguiz V, Lara JS, Marró ML, O\'Toole S, Ramírez V, Bartlett D. Recommendations and guidelines for dentists using the basic erosive wear examination index (BEWE). Br Dent J. 2020 Feb;228(3):153-157. doi: 10.1038/s41415-020-1246-y. PMID: 32060450; PMCID: PMC7718147. - **BEWE and management guidelines** Bartlett, D., Dattani, S., Mills, I. *et al.* Monitoring erosive toothwear: BEWE, a simple tool to protect patients and the profession. *Br Dent J* **226, **930--932 (2019). **Online:** - Online resource dedicated to Erosive tooth wear, includes a section on the BEWE too **Lecturer:** Miss Yazmyn Felix **Section 1 - Aetiology of Tooth Wear:** 1. Complete the table in reference to Table 7.1 in Chapter 7 of the Delivering Better Oral Health Toolkit. Erosion Attrition Abrasion --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- ----------- ---------- Examples of factors that contribute to each type of tooth wear. List as many as you can. This will help in your history taking as part of risk assessment for tooth wear. **Extrinsic** **Intrinsic** 2. Outline 3 key functions of saliva: 3. Describe how **saliva** can both **a) protect** teeth from tooth wear and **b) increase the risk** of tooth wear: 4. List three factors that can impact on the quality or quantity of saliva and thus increase the risk of erosion: **Section 2 -- Screening and monitoring tooth wear** 5. **Outline the steps involved in conducting a risk assessment for tooth wear. (Consider clinical signs and patient factors)** 6. **Describe how you would conduct a tooth wear screening using the BEWE tool.** 7. Complete the table: +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ | | Erosion | Attrition | Abrasion | +=================+=================+=================+=================+ | Clinical signs | | | | | | | | | | (consider | | | | | specific teeth | | | | | and surfaces) | | | | +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ | Possible | | | | | patient factors | | | | | | | | | | (consider those | | | | | in the patient | | | | | history or | | | | | symptoms) | | | | +-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+-----------------+ **\ ** **Section 3:** **Interventions** 8. Outline preventive advice that you can give for patients regarding prevention of tooth wear: 9. Outline specific preventive advice for extrinsic acids in a patient with a cumulative BEWE score \