Restorative Dental Technology – Associate in Science Degree, Certificate of Achievement
The Pasadena City College RESTORATIVE DENTAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM curriculum prepares a student for employment in a private or commercial dental laboratory, dental office, or research laboratory performing restorative dental techniques and procedures required for the fabrication of dental prostheses. Emphasis is on fundamental and advanced laboratory procedures and concepts in all specialized areas as represented by courses in removable complete dentures, crown and fixed partial dentures, dental ceramics, removable partial dentures, implants, digital dentistry CAD-CAM (three levels), and orthodontics and pedodontics. Instruction includes courses in intraoral and facial structures, dental mater
Courses
- RDT 125A — BEGINNING FIXED PROSTHODONTICS
- RDT 125B — INTERMEDIATE FIXED PROSTHODONTICS
- RDT 130A — BEGINNING COMPLETE DENTURES
- RDT 130B — ADVANCED COMPLETE DENTURES
- RDT 135A — BEGINNING DENTAL ANATOMY
- RDT 135B — INTERMEDIATE DENTAL ANATOMY
- RDT 140A — BEGINNING DIGITAL DENTISTRY CAD CAM I
- RDT 140B — INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL DENTISTRY CAD CAM II
- RDT 145 — DENTAL MATERIALS
- RDT 150 — DENTAL COMMUNICATION AND WORKPLACE READINESS SKILLS
- RDT 155 — ANATOMY OF ORAL AND FACIAL STRUCTURES
- RDT 160 — DENTAL CALCULATIONS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
- RDT 225A — BEGINNING REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURES (RPDs)
- RDT 225B — ADVANCED REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURES (RPDs)
- RDT 230A — INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED FIXED PROSTHODONTICS
- RDT 230B — ADVANCED FIXED PROSTHODONTICS
- RDT 235A — FUNCTIONAL OCCLUSION AND ARTICULATOR INSTRUMENTATION
- RDT 235B — ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL OCCLUSION AND BIOMECHANICS OF THE MASTICATORY SYSTEM
- RDT 240 — ADVANCED DIGITAL DENTISTRY CAD CAM III
- RDT 245 — ORTHODONTICS AND PEDODONTICS
- RDT 250 — LABORATORY BUS. MGMT/ ADMIN, LEGALITIES, ETHICS AND JURISPRUDENCE
- RDT 255 — INTRODUCTION TO DENTAL IMPLANTS
- RDT 260 — TRANSITION TO THE RESTORATIVE DENTAL TECHNOLOGY PROFESSION
- RDT 265 — CLINICAL EXPERIENCE