ODONTOSTOMATOLOGIC DISCIPLINES (I PART - NO EXAM)
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- ROBERTO FARINA
- Credits
- 23
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- MED/28
Training objectives
- The educational purposes of the following module are based on the diagnosis and on the clinical training of the student with regard to malocclusion, craniofacial dysmorphisms and aesthetic problems from a mono or multidisciplinary perspective.
The skills that the student will have to learn are:
1. Diagnosis and etiology of malocclusions both in the growing patient and in the young-adult patient.
2. Collection of anamnestic data (physiological, proximate and remote medical history) of the patient in order to perform a correct diagnosis. Ability to combine these informations with the collection of other records such as photographic, radiographic and functional ones.
3. Ability to perform a correct intra and extra-oral and a functional exam. Particular emphasis will be given to the count of the dental formula, to the distinction between deciduous and permanent teeth and to the knowledge about correct dental exchange phenomena. The student will have to conduct an in-vivo analysis of malocclusion regarding on: molar and canine dental class, overjet and overbite values ¿¿and the coincidence of the median lines.
4. Ability to interpret radiographic examinations and to correctly read a cephalometric analysis, evaluating these radiographic data with the informations obtained from the clinical examination.
5. Recognition of the various orthodontic devices, their particularities and orthodontic and orthopedic purposes.
6. Recognition of an adequate dental occlusion and a suitable maxillo-mandibular relationship.
7. Ability to develop an orthodontic prognosis and to discern the feasibility of the various orthodontic equipment for each clinical condition based on their efficiency and effectiveness. Prerequisites
- Knowledge acquired about disciplines of each module
Course programme
- 6th year student will attend full time dental clinic. He will be active during diagnosis, planning and treatment in all disciplines cited. He will be first operator as frequent as possible, under tutor’s supervision, to perform and improve each clinical performance.
Didactic methods
- Frontal lectures, multidisciplinary seminars, case based learning.
In this particular year of teaching, due to the multidisciplinar and practical approach to learnign methods, clinical cases will be presented. Specific emphasis will be given to the disciplines of Oral surgery, Periodontics, Gnatology Orthodontics, Operative dentistry and endodontics and Pediatric dentistry. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral presentations of clinical cases during multidisciplinary seminars under supervision of the faculty.
Daily clinical tutors will fill specific form to attest student’s activity and presence in dental clinic, considering quality and numbers of treatment done.
Each tutor/teacher will fill specific form after 6 months of activity to evaluate students’ skills, both social and clinical.
all criteria will be the same for each discipline, adapted to specific aspects of treatment. The approach is multidisciplinary and mark system is shared between teachers. Reference texts
- None
