HLTDET016 — Design digital dental restorations and appliances using computer-aided design (CAD)

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What an assessment for HLTDET016 must cover

34 assessable components: 3 elements (16 performance criteria), 4 performance evidence and 11 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 3 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Determine restoration or appliance requirements.

1.1Access and interpret work order.
1.2Apply standard infection control precautions when receiving, handling and working on dental materials.
1.3Ensure accuracy of work order and seek additional information as required.
1.4Assess quality of impression, model or intraoral scan and seek any required adjustments.
1.5Scan physical impression, model or download intraoral scan and create digital representation of impression.
1.6Identify technologies and computer-aided design (CAD) software required to complete digital design of restoration or appliance, and ensure availability.

2 Design restoration or appliance using computer-aided design (CAD).

2.1Access required technologies and computer-aided design (CAD) software.
2.2Follow workplace policies and procedures to access and import digital impression files into computer-aided design (CAD) software.
2.3Create 3-D images by manipulating 3-D shapes.
2.4Establish coordinate system and orientation according to work order.
2.5Manipulate computer-aided design (CAD) software features and functions to create digital design of restoration or appliance.
2.6Apply rendering techniques to digital design of restoration or appliance.

3 Finalise digital design for manufacturing.

3.1Ensure digital design of restoration or appliance accurately reflects requirements of work order.
3.2Make any final adjustments to ensure integrity and accuracy of digital design.
3.3Ensure digital design is available in format required for manufacturing.
3.4Finalise digital design for production and store according to workplace requirements.

Performance evidence

read and correctly interpreted four work orders
used computer-aided design (CAD) software and technologies to prepare four digitally designed restorations or appliances, one of which must be a unit of crown and bridge work. The remaining three must be selected from two of the following categories: • prosthetics • chrome casting • orthodontics • splints
applied infection control precautions and safe work practices to prepare the above four digital restoration or appliance designs
critically evaluated the above four digital restoration or appliance designs to meet requirements of the work order.

Knowledge evidence

Australian/New Zealand Standards, workplace health and safety (WHS) policies, Dental Board of Australia guidelines on infection control, Commonwealth legislation and State/Territory legislation, and organisational policies relating to dental laboratory work
requirements and organisational policies relating to dental laboratory work including: • use of standard infection control precautions • use of personal protective equipment • requirements for the use of technologies and computer-aided design (CAD) software • requirements for storage of digital designs • work health and safety
benefits and limitations of computer-aided design (CAD) in digital dentistry
commonly used types of computer-aided design (CAD) technologies used the in dental industry
digital design processes and procedures
digital design file types
digital and physical impressions and properties
types of digital restorations and appliances
properties of restoration and appliance material applicable to computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and the applicability of each material
computer-aided manufacturing types and processes commonly used in digital dentistry
fundamentals of oral anatomy: • dentition – arrangement of 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 mouth • teeth form and function.

Foundation skills

Reading skills: interpret technical language within various texts.
Oral communications skills: pronounce complex words correctly and use them in the correct context.
Self-management skills: work within parameters of own scope of practice.

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What does an assessment tool for HLTDET016 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for HLTDET016 needs to address all 34 unit components: 3 elements with 16 performance criteria, 4 performance evidence requirements, 11 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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