1- Simulation labs (Phantom)
The simulation laboratories serve the educational and training process for students in the pre-clinical stage. Labs have been designated for Male and Female departments. Phantom laboratories enable students during their pre-clinical years to perform various Dental procedures with clinical situations simulating reality.
Each simulation laboratory is equipped with more than 50 training units for students, and in these units, there are dentinal models affixed to the head of the doll that represents the patient and works on each unit of one student. This unit is equipped with all the features of the real dental chair and a stethoscope is added to it to communicate with the supervisor.
A sophisticated audiovisual communication system gives these laboratories an additional advantage. The central platform for the training supervisor has been assigned and designed to allow for a ceiling camera as well as an intra-oral camera to display details of students’ medical procedures on screens attached to their individual units.
With the help of headphones, students can contact the training supervisor without having to leave their workplace.
The laboratory is also equipped with an imaging unit, which provides students with the necessary skills for radiography techniques before applying them to patients, and advanced digital imaging software, which allows the preservation of x-ray images and their analysis through advanced software tools.
These unique conditions for the simulation laboratories give the student the best experience of pre-clinical learning and training and equip them with the knowledge and skills that will allow them to begin their clinical training with high confidence.
2- Dental Prosthodontics lab
Each lab consists of 62 units, 60 modern equipped units for students, and two of them are for supervisors. Each unit consists of a light source, a hood, an air portal, a low-speed motor, a chair, and special drawers with a protected shutdown system. And each of these plants could be divided in the future into two laboratories to accommodate the equilibrium numbers.
In these labs, it is possible to implement many practical aspects for several academic courses, these courses include both of the following:
Dental Anatomy: Where students learn how to draw and sculpt teeth using wax cubes.
Dental materials (basic and advanced): where students learn how to deal with different dental materials (such as cement, imprint materials, metallic mixtures, various fillings, and monomeric resin), which will be used in future studies in several courses: Mobile dental prostheses, restorative dentistry, and orthodontics.
Fixed prostheses: where students learn all the steps needed to make fixed prostheses, such as: full metal crowns and bridges, porcelain-metal crowns and bridges, full-ceramic crowns and bridges.
Moving Prosthodontics: Where students learn all the steps needed to make movable prostheses, such as: moving full dentures, and partial, moving dentures. Orthodontics: Where students learn how to work with the different types of wires needed to make simple, mobile orthodontic devices.