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National practical exam changes add periodontal probing, update crown criteria; California schools perform above national averages
Summary
Exam developers told the Dental Board on Aug. 14 that a new occupational analysis added a comprehensive periodontal scaling and probing station to the national practical dental exam and updated crown evaluation content, and that California schools performed at or above the national cohort in recent testing.
Representatives of the national dental exam program told the Dental Board Aug. 14 that the practical licensure exam is changing significantly after a recent occupational analysis and that California dental schools continue to perform at or above national averages on the hands-on sections.
What changed: Presenters described targeted updates to exam content based on a nationwide job-task analysis that governs test outlines. The updated analysis will replace some traditional crown tasks (for example, cast-metal and PFM criteria) with assessments of posterior zirconia crowns for premolars and…
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