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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Elements define the essential outcomes
  2. Prepare patient and interpret the request for photography
  3. Prepare to take the photograph
  4. Take required intraoral views using a standardised approach
  5. Take a portrait and profile photograph

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:

• national and State/Territory legal and ethical requirements and considerations for dental assisting work including:

­ codes of practice

­ discrimination

­ duty of care

- informed consent and statutory requirements of consent

- practice standards – dental guidelines on infection control

­ privacy, confidentiality and disclosure

­ records management

­ work role boundaries – responsibilities and limitations

­ work health and safety

• fundamental oral anatomy:

- dentition, arrangement of the teeth, naming and coding of teeth

- structures of the oral cavity, hard and soft palate, lateral and posterior borders of the oral cavity, tongue and floor of the mouth

- teeth, form and function

• fundamentals of photography, including:

- basic knowledge of camera systems appropriate for dental photography

- ability to reproduce photographic conditions

- appropriate reproduction ratio

- reduction of image contents either through an appropriate scale or through selective focusing

• rationale and objectives for taking clinical photographs under conditions that can be reproduced including the need for:

- basic views to record a patient’s clinical condition during the initial patient visit

- communication of information to the patient, and between dentists, doctors and laboratories

- documentation of processes and stages of treatment

- documentation of the state and changes to the teeth and mucous membranes of the mouth

- illustration for teaching and research

- quality control of treatment outcomes

• procedures and actions for dental emergencies