Clinical Unit 2
4
2024-2025
01410357
Practice Field
Portuguese
Face-to-face
10.5
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Pre-clinical Unit 2 (Periodontology, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine)
It is essential the domain of the following knowledge and basic skills :
- Pathophysiology.
- Anatomy of the head and neck, with particular specificity in the structures of the oral cavity.
- Pharmacology.
- Microbiology.
- Knowledge of periodontology, oral medicine and oral surgery last year.
- Reading, understanding and writing the English language.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical teaching - use of exhibition methods, display and assets: simulation of standard problems resolution in clinical setting. Teaching resources: computer, multimedia projector, Powerpoint presentations.
Practical teaching - the classes take place in the clinical hospital of the area of Dental Medicine. Students will be placed in clinical practice context in full, assuming their responsibilities to treat patients. They will be able to cover the most frequent pathology, as well as perform and interpret medical records and run the main technical/therapeutic actions of this area.
Learning Outcomes
Periodontology:
1 - diagnose, refere and treat mild to moderate periodontal diseases
2 - perform competently scaling and root planing and debridement supra and infragengival through manual and mechanical instrumentation
3 - evaluating the results of periodontal treatment, establishing and providing a maintenance program and analyze risk factors.
Oral surgery:
1 - execute in a competent way simple extractions
2 – knowledge of the instrumental and master the techniques of basic sutures
3 - make local and locoregional anesthetic infiltration
4 - knowledge of the surgical techniques of impacted teeth extraction and its inherent risks.
Oral Medicine:
1 – identification of the major transmissable diseases in the dental office and prevention forms
2 - knowledge of oral manifestations of major systemic diseases
3 – identifcation of oral and peri-oral manifestations of self-induced injury or other undesirable effects and iatrogenic injuries and how to prevent them.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Periodontology:
1. Diagnosis and treatment plan
2. Scaling and root planing techniques
3. Scientific evidence of non surgical vs surgical treatment
4. Incisions and sutures
5. Periodontal regeneration
6. Furcation involvement
7. Periodontal plastic surgery
Oral surgery:
1. Instrumental and ergonomics and basic surgical techniques
2. Pre-prosthetic surgery
3. Included teeth
4. Surgical emergencies
5. Orofacial infections
6. Congenital malformations
7. Orthognathic surgery
8. Oral Cancer and benign tumors
Oral Medicine:
1. Medical History and Dental and Laboratory Tests
2. Infection Control
3. Clinical examination: requirements and techniques applied to oral and cervico-facial region.
4. Oral and peri-oral manifestations of self-induced injury or other undesirable effects
5. Manifestations in the oral mucosa of general organic diseases
6. Aspects of oral mucosa of diseases of the hematopoietic system
7. Peri-oral and oral manifestations of autoimmune diseases.
Head Lecturer(s)
Sérgio Miguel Andrade Matos
Assessment Methods
Continuous evaluation
Oral medicine: 20.0%
Periodontology: 40.0%
Oral Surgery: 40.0%
Evaluation
Exam: 50.0%
Fieldwork or laboratory work: 50.0%
Bibliography
1) Lindhe J, Karring T, Lang NP. Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry. 5ª ed. Blackwell Munsgaard, 2008.
2) Borghetti A, Monnet-Corti V. Cirurgia plástica periodontal. Ed. Artmed, 2002.
3) Rateitschak KH, Wolf HF. Color Atlas of Dental Medicine. Periodontology. 3ª ed., 2005.
4) Periodontal Instrumentation. A clinical manual. Pattison G, Patisson AM. Reston Publishing Company; 1987.
5) Tratado de Cirugía Bucal. Tomo I. C Gay Escoda, L Berini Aytés. Ergon (2004)
6) Cirugía Bucal. Patología y técnica. Donado Rodriguez. Masson (1998)