A escultura dental na graduação em Odontologia: estratégias para a sua aplicabilidade

Abstract

Tooth carving integrates the undergraduate curriculum in dentistry and aims to acquire anatomical knowledge about the teeth beyond the development and training of manual skills, the application of teaching methods seeking correlation of this discipline with the clinic is a tool of motivation of the students and increase the effectiveness of learning, being essential to know these practices for the renewal of educative approaches. This study is a review of the literature that describes the current state of the discipline in the databases and aims to describe approaches to dental sculpture during undergraduate dentistry, teaching methods and their relevance in clinical applicability. Several methods are described for teaching in dental sculpture, and sculpture in articulated models, the flipped classroom and digital assisted instruction are presented with advantages compatible with their subsequent application of both the acquired morphological knowledge and the ability manual in several fields of dentistry with emphasis in operative and prosthetic dentistry. The discipline of dental sculpture must be updated in order to achieve a greater use of the students through a stimulating, relevant and effective methodology for professional practice that provides a more active and independent learning. The lack of evidence in the literature about a method of teaching dental sculpture superior to the others implies that in the future a comparative study that addresses, for example, the instructional strategies addressed in this review will be of great relevance for the updating of the discipline and for the undergraduate curriculum in dentistry.