SDLE (SPLE Dentist) case studies

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The Special Dental Licensure Examination (SDLE), also referred to as the SPLE for Dentists, is a special licensure route administered in the Philippines by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) through the Professional Regulatory Board of Dentistry. It exists for dentists who earned or completed their dental education abroad and who wish to be licensed to practise in the Philippines without sitting the regular licensure examination cycle. The SDLE (SPLE Dentist) case studies are 5 cases and about 5,097 words.

A deep isolated pocket on a non-vital molar in a diabetic smoker

Mr K, 48, attends with intermittent dull pain on biting on the lower left. He has type 2 diabetes (HbA1c 8.9%, unchanged for two years) and smokes 20 cigarettes daily.

1,013 words, about 5 min 2

Urgent extraction in a patient on warfarin and aspirin with a supratherapeutic INR

Mrs L, 72, attends wanting tooth 26 extracted. It has gross caries, is non-restorable, and has a chronic periapical radiolucency.

959 words, about 5 min 3

A 16-year-old attending alone, cosmetic request and an unexplained tongue patch

A 16-year-old girl attends unaccompanied and offers to pay cash. She asks for composite veneers on her upper incisors because she dislikes the mottled appearance of her enamel; the enamel is fluorosed but sound.

1,022 words, about 5 min 4

Retained deciduous canines, a high labial canine and a mother who wants everything fixed now

A 9-year-old boy attends with his mother. Upper arch: 53 and 63 are retained and firm; 13 and 23 are not palpable buccally, although 13 can be felt high in the labial sulcus.

1,026 words, about 5 min 5

An incidental unilocular radiolucency of the mandibular angle and an opaque maxillary sinus

A 58-year-old man attends for complete denture assessment and a panoramic radiograph is taken. At the right mandibular angle there is a 20 x 15 mm well-corticated unilocular radiolucency attached to the cementoenamel junction of an impacted, mesioangular 38, whose crown appears enveloped by the lesion.

1,077 words, about 5 min