Course Overview

Course Title: Apply the principles of radiation biology and protection in dental practice
Credit Points: 120
Nominal Hours: 120
Course Coordinator: Sandra Torbica
Course Coordinator Phone:
Course Coordinator Email: sandra.torbica@rmit.edu.au
Course Summary

In this course you will learn skills and gain knowledge required to minimise the risk of radiation to the patient, practitioner and others during the exposure of a prescribed dental radiographic image. You will also be introduced to the quality assurance measures that must be undertaken to ensure all radiographs are of consistent diagnostic standard.
This course addresses the following units of competency:
  • HLTDEN022
  • HLTDEN023
These units are clustered for delivery and assessment. Cluster name: Dental Radiography.

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