help me ...abt RT exams

[priti]

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hi,
i m a new member and want info. abt rt exam....could anyone pls tell me what is tested on the exam and how to prepare for it....i m on east coast, how abt preparation....is it possible to prepare at home....or i must take kaplan classes offered in CA.

waiting for reply.

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[ivorinedust]

Hi Priti:

You will be tested on three areas:

1. Class II amalgam on any posterior tooth except the lower first premolar. Both cavity preparation and amalgam insertion(up to carving) are graded.

2. Full coverage crown(PFM)

3. Partial coverage crown--3/4, 7/8 or MOD onlay.

One crown prep will be graded by itself.

The other one will be graded together with laboratory work up to wax-up.

http://www.dbc.ca.gov/rtexam.html


You might like to rent Duggan's Videos to begin with. Three month's rental is $550 plus 500 more for the refundable deposit. Some individuals sell "copies" of the videos for cheaper, but that is infringing on others' intellectual rights.


http://www.duggandds.com/index.html


Also read "Fundamentals of Tooth Preparation for Porcelain and Cast Restorations" by Schillinburg and Jacobi. Although the preps in this book are not exactly what you would want to do on the exam, you would find tons of information here.

There is no Kaplan Review for the RT. You might want to try Duggan's, UCLA or some private tutors, but they are all located in California. There is a review course in Florida (the name escapes me at the moment)but it is for the California Licensure Exam(part 4).

You may find find materials and equipment at Duggan's, UCLA, or elsewhere in the net. Refurbished handpieces and some consumables are a steal on eBay. Occassionally, used equipment and materials for sale pop up on discussion forums such as this.

I have not taken the exam yet due to the tremendous backlog at the CDB, but this is basically how I started to prepare.

I hope this helps.

Brotherly,

Ivorinedust

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[ubd]

hi!

for practice wher can i get teeth for columbia typodont type II teeth???

pls let me know!

ubd

 

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[priti]

thank u very much..ivorindust,,,
now i got the idea abt the exam style but couldn't find any vediotape or something like that to help me i practice ...so if u know any specific thing abt this pls reply.
priti.

Originally posted by ivorinedust
Hi Priti:

You will be tested on three areas:

1. Class II amalgam on any posterior tooth except the lower first premolar. Both cavity preparation and amalgam insertion(up to carving) are graded.

2. Full coverage crown(PFM)

3. Partial coverage crown--3/4, 7/8 or MOD onlay.

One crown prep will be graded by itself.

The other one will be graded together with laboratory work up to wax-up.

http://www.dbc.ca.gov/rtexam.html


You might like to rent Duggan's Videos to begin with. Three month's rental is $550 plus 500 more for the refundable deposit. Some individuals sell "copies" of the videos for cheaper, but that is infringing on others' intellectual rights.


http://www.duggandds.com/index.html


Also read "Fundamentals of Tooth Preparation for Porcelain and Cast Restorations" by Schillinburg and Jacobi.



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[ivorinedust]

Ubd asks:

for practice wher can i get teeth for columbia typodont type II teeth???

pls let me know!

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You may buy teeth from Duggan's, whose website I pasted on my previous post above,(and whose address and phone/fax numbers I listed near the end of this posting), or from Pearson Dental Supply:

http://www.pearsondental.com

Be sure you are buying teeth for the Columbia Articulated Dentoform model SMPVR-860(do you have one of these yet?). Buy mostly upper centrals, upper canines, upper bicuspids and upper and lower first molars. Maybe you can try your chops on the more posterior upper and lower molars, so buy a few pieces too. And a few pieces of lower bicuspids won't hurt. Don't bother with upper and lower laterals and lower centrals as they won't be used in the exam.

You'd be okay with a extra couple of lower canines.

You might want to buy a set of "gingivae" later on, although this is optional if you don't hurt your non-bleeding typodont "patient".

Some people say you would need to cut around 5 teeth a day in the first few weeks to get the hang of it. If you heed their advice, you might need a a hundred or so teeth to practice on for a few months. Then you decrease that to around 5-10 teeth per week.

Many candidates have at least two dentoforms: one for practice, and the other one--the well equilibrated one--will remain untouched until exam day.

priti asks further:

",,,now i got the idea abt the exam style but couldn't find any vediotape or something like that to help me i practice ...so if u know any specific thing abt this pls reply."
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Try contacting the Duggan Institute:

1076 Santo Antonio Dr. Suite J (second floor)
Colton, CA 92324
Phone: (909)824-7179
Fax: (909) 824-2730

Extension 127 of their phone no. will take you to Materials and Supplies. Tell them you need to rent the videotape set. Do this early, because they don't have too many sets to go around and many people are going to rent them for sure.

Ivorinedust
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[priti]

thank u very much..ivorinedust!
priti.
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