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	Diploma in Dental Mechanics
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DIPLOMA IN DENTAL MECHANICS

a. Building

Dental Mechanic is a trained person, who makes or repairs dental appliances and dentures including inlay, crown and bridge work.he shall restrict his activities to purely mechanical lab work at the instance of the registered dental surgeon. He shall not do any chair side work.

Ø        The course must be run in DCI recognised dental college.
Ø       The college must have a well equipped dental lab with all instruments and materials and good inflow of patients for training.
Ø       Facilities for practical demonstration in Physics, Biology must be available.
Ø        A suitable library for reference of students must be present.
Ø     A well equipped lab with all the necessary facilities is mandatory. Lab should be equipped for both prosthetic and orthodontic work.
Ø        Library facilities: A suitable library for the reference of students must be available.

b. Teaching staff

Ø        A qualified full time Professor must head the Department of Prosthodontics.
Ø        One full time Assistant Professor to teach Dental Mechanic students must be present.
Ø        Two qualified Dental Mechanics with 3 years experience must be present.

c. Equipments

1.     Mean value articulators
2.     Semi-adjustable articulators
3.     Dental flasks with clamps
4.     Acrylisers
5.     Vacuum - mixer
6.     Vibrator
7.     Cast -drying oven
8.     Center grinder / palatal trimmer
9.     Lab handpiece with micro motor
10. Hanging motors
11. High speed lathe
12. Casting machine with crucible
13. Casting furnance
14. Casting rings
15. Sandblaster
16. Model trimmer
17. Electrolytic polishing unit
18. Micromotors
19. Agar conditioner and duplicating flasks
20. Surveyors
21. Ceramic firing unit
22. Pindex die pin attaching unit
23. Die cutting unit
24. Denture finishing kit
25. Metal finishing kit
26. Ceramic restoration finishing kit

d. Books

Sl.No.	Textbook Title	Author	Publication	Edition
1	Manual of Training Dental Technicians		HerMajesty's Stationery Office
2	Laboratory Procedures for Inlays, Crowns and Bridges	Deredk Stananought	Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd.
3	An Atlas of Removable Partial Denture design	Russel. Stratton / Frank J. Wiebelt	Quintessence
4	Science and Technic of Cast Restoration	George M. Hollenback
5	Guide to Occusal Waxing	Shillingburg / Wilsom/Morrison	Quintessence	2nd
6	Dental Mechanics For students	John Osborne		4th
7	Dental Implants Fundamental And Advanced laboratory Technology (color atlas)	Robert Wikelman Kenneth Orth	Wolfe
8	Quintessence of Dental Technology		Quintessence
9	Dental Laboratory Technology	Nicholas Martinelli	Mosby	3rd
10	Practical Exercise in Dental Mechanics	F.G. Shaw D.C. Scott		3rd
11	Introduction to metal ceramic Technology	W. Patrick Naylor	Quintessence
12	Precision Fixed Prosthodontics Clinical and Laboratory Aspects	M. Martignoni / A. Schonenberger	Quintessence
13	Dental Laboratory procedures in Complete Dentures Vol-1 Removable Partial Dentures Vol-2 Fixed Partial Dentures Vol-3	Rhoads. Rudd. Morrow.	Mosby	2nd
14	A Text Book of Dental Anatomy	Wheeler's	Saunders	8th
15	Color Atlas of Ceramo-Metal Technology - Vol. 1 and Vol. 2	Masahiro Kuwata
16	Essentials of Dental Ceramics - An Artestic Approach	Gerard J Chiche Alain Pinault	Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc.
17	The Science and Art of Dental Ceramics, Vol-1	John. W. Mclean	Quintessence
18	Creative Ceramic Color - A Practical System	Ernest. A. Hegenbarth	Quintessence
19	The Design And Construction of Removable Orthodontic Appliances	C. Philip Adams	John Wright and Sons Ltd.
20	A Manual of Practical Orthodontics	W.J. Tulley A.C. Campbell	John Wright and Sons Ltd.	3rd