Vol. 13, Issue 5 (2024)

The last decade has brought fundamental changes to the medical industry. Dentistry becomes a high-tech industry that uses the benefits of other scientific disciplines and integrates them in order to increase the efficiency of patients’ treatment. Practical skills that should accelerate and improve understanding of the learning material have been developed and introduced in the pedagogical process in order to improve knowledge acquisition by the students since the present day requires the transition of education from a knowledge-based to a competency-based model.

A device for teaching dental students has been developed and introduced into the educational process in order to achieve the objective. This device contains a tripod to be attached to the headrest of the dental chair and a training tool located on the tripod. A skeletonized lower jaw of an animal is used as a training tool. It is fixed in two clamps positioned on the frameworks located at the ends of a horizontal cylindrical bar. The frameworks have openings to base the framework on the bar and to place the clamp. The position of the frameworks and clamps is fixed with retaining screws.

The formation of tooth extraction skills was conducted at practical classes of surgical pediatric dentistry with students of the 4-5th year of the Faculty of Dentistry. Each student carried out the manipulation of tooth extraction in the following sequence: selection of forceps, their correct fixation, application, movement, fixation of forceps on the neck, luxation or rotation and direct extraction of the tooth from the alveolus. The crown part of the tooth was broken off with the subsequent use of an elevator to remove the remaining tooth root in order to simulate the complications of the tooth extraction procedure.