This is one of the courses provided by the Department of Oral Medicine and Surgery for undergraduate 2nd-year dental students during the first semester. The course has two components, lectures and corresponding practical training in dental laboratories. The lecture topics cover detailed dental macroscopic anatomy and the basic principles of dental occlusion. Generally, each lecture covers one class of permanent teeth and there is a separate lecture for deciduous teeth. The first two lectures present the dental notation systems and dental terminology. The last two lectures cover the chronology of tooth development and the fundamentals of dental occlusion.
The practical sessions of Dent 201 focus on reinforcing the details covered in the lectures by carving different teeth out of wax blocks. Practical sessions focus on enhancing the manual skills of 2nd-year dental students in preparation for operative/conservative pre-clinical labs. The sessions also include practicing different dental notation systems, and tooth identification.