Teaching code

4S000289

Teacher

Annarita Signoriello

Credits

2

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

MED/28 - ORAL DISEASES AND DENTISTRY

Period

1 SEMESTRE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE dal Oct 3, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

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Program

- Preventive and Community Dentistry: definition, purposes, health and prevention, national oral health guide-lines in development age and in adults, health assistance models, dentistry assistance models, LEA in Dentistry.
- Deciduous and permanent teeth, natal and neonatal teeth.
- Caries: epidemiology, epidemiologic indices, etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, risk assessment (indices and models), prevention, early childhood caries;
Fluorine: mechanism of action, fluorine prophylaxis, dental fluorosis;
Dental sealants: use and application, glass-ionomer and resin materials, remineralization strategies.
- Periodontal diseases: epidemiology, etiology, clinical features and diagnosis of gingivitis and periodontitis, periodontal indices, risk factors, prevention.
- Oral hygiene role in prevention of oral and systemic diseases in children and adults; General rules for infections’ prevention in oral stomatology.
- Oral hygiene practice with children: methodology and strategies with anxious patients.
- Oral pathologies prevention during pregnancy.
- Dental abnormalities: etiology, types (number, volume, shape, place, position, eruption, growth, structure).
- Malocclusion: Angle classification, overjet and overbite, oral habits, preventive and interceptive orthodontics.
- Oral cancer: epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, risk factors, precancerous lesions, risk assessment, screening and early diagnosis.
- Bisphosphonates osteonecrosis (BRONJ): definition, epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis criteria, risk factors, dentristry procedures, prevention.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons

Learning assessment procedures

Written exam with open questions and multiple choice. The objective of the test is to verify the knowledge of the topics covered during the lessons. The final evaluation is expressed in 30ths, the sufficiency is achieved with a score of 18/30.

Evaluation criteria

The evaluation criterion is based on the ability to answer questions relating to the topics discussed in class.

Exam language

Italiano, inglese a richiesta.