TERAPIA ODONTOSTOMATOLOGICA INTEGRATA
Module Professional training - Clinical stomatology II

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: GAETANO ISOLA

Expected Learning Outcomes

• The skills acquired will lead the student to develop a critical capacity on the topics covered by actively using the skills for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in the management of the patient in the odontostomatological field.

• Achieve knowledge and practical skills that allow you to manage simple surgical periodontal cases, report complex ones with appropriate indications, have information and the basic concepts of basic odontostomatology

• At the end of the course the student will have to: know and carry out non-surgical periodontal treatment; periodontal surgery; be able to perform basic periodontal surgery; interpret and know how to read CBCT instrumental exams and use of software in the oro-dental-periodontal field.

Course Structure

Professionalizing clinical internship accompanied by lessons, slides, practice on the model and videos and supplemented by discussion of the topics covered in order to train students in a critical capacity on the topics and allow them to acquire knowledge suitable for surgical management in patients suffering from odontostomatological diseases. Final exam with oral test.

If the teaching is given in a mixed or distance mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the Syllabus.

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology in the field of dentistry. Knowledge of the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of mucous and bone pathologies of the oro-maxillofacial district. Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology in the oral and periodontal field.

See also the Academic Regulations of the course of study published on the University portal:

https://www.unict.it/it/ateneo/lauree-magistrali-ciclo-unico-regolamenti-didattici

Attendance of Lessons

Obligation to attend the professionalizing clinical and preclinical internship in order to sit the exam. Maximum tolerance of absences of 30% as per the regulation of the teaching system.

Detailed Course Content

The aim of the course is to provide the student with the tools to learn to recognize, diagnose and treat the physiology, pathophysiology and treatment of the periodontal system in health and disease conditions. Particular emphasis will be placed on developing the skills of differential diagnosis between the different forms of odontostomatological diseases, from epidemiology to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan. This in order to be able to support a multidisciplinary and articulated approach aimed at the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the oral cavity.

The following contents will be specifically addressed, from a clinical point of view:

1. Overview of systematic, topographical and radiological anatomy of the hard and soft periodontal tissues

2. Periodontal semeiotics of gingival and peri-implant tissues

3. Epidemiology of periodontal diseases

4. Microbiology of periodontal disease

5. First Periodontal Visit - The Flow Chart of the periodontal patient

6. Periodontal diagnosis: Survey (PSR - Charting) - X-rays - Intraoral photos

7. Periodontal tactile perception and peri-implant osteoperception

8. Correlation Systemic Diseases - Periodontitis

9. Morphology of defects / teeth in the periodontal patient

10. Classification of periodontal and peri-implant diseases

11. Planning of periodontal treatment

12. Causal therapy in periodontology

13. Gingival Biofilm

14. Goals of Non-surgical Therapy

15. Antibiotic therapy – Probiotics in the periodontal patient

16. Tooth decay

17. Dysodontiasis of the third molar

18. Neoformations of the oral cavity

19. Emergency treatment

20. Apical periodontitis

21. Diagnosis of malocclusions

22. Osteonecrosis

23. Principles of endodontic therapy

24. Treatment of odontogenic abscesses

25. Drug therapy in dentistry

Textbook Information

·         Parodontologia clinica e implantologia orale. Jan Lindhe, Niklaus P. Lang.  Edi. Ermes, sesta edizione.

·         Lezioni di clinica odontostomatologica aries due

·         Clinica odontoiatrica e stomatologica – Serpico - Gombos


AuthorTitlePublisherYearISBN
Gombos SerpicoClinica odontostomatologicaPiccin2012

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Clinica odontostomatologica
2Lezioni di clinica odontostomatologica

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

At the end of the course the student will have to take an oral exam which will focus on the topics related to the integrated course program. In the assessment, in addition to knowledge and learning ability, independent judgment and communication skills will be taken into consideration.

The test allows to verify: i) the level of knowledge of the main gingival diseases; ii) the ability to apply this knowledge for the differential diagnosis of hard and soft tissue diseases of the periodontal system; iii) clarity of presentation; iv) the property of medical-scientific language.

The test is considered passed with a minimum vote of 18/30 topics of the program.

For the attribution of the final grade, the following parameters will be taken into account:

Mark 29-30 cum laude: the student has an in-depth knowledge of the main pathological entities, is able promptly and correctly to integrate and critically analyze the situations presented, autonomously solving even highly complex diagnostic problems; he has excellent communication skills and masters the medical-scientific and dental language.

Mark 26-28: the student has a good knowledge of the main pathological entities, is able to integrate and analyze the situations presented in a critical and linear way, is able to solve complex diagnostic problems in a fairly autonomous way and explains the topics clearly using a appropriate medical-scientific and dental;

Mark 22-25: the student has a good knowledge of the main pathological entities, even if limited to the main topics; she manages to integrate and analyze the situations presented in a critical but not always linear way and she explains the arguments quite clearly with a discrete property of language;

Mark 18-21: the student has minimal knowledge of the main pathological entities, has a modest ability to integrate and critically analyze the situations presented and presents the topics in a sufficiently clear way although the property of language is poorly developed;

Failed exam: the student does not possess the minimum required knowledge of the main teaching contents. The ability to use the specific language is very little or none and is not able to independently apply the acquired knowledge.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

• Periodontal anatomy

• Non-surgical periodontal treatment

• Third molar surgery

• Classifications of malocclusions

• Odontogenic abscesses

• Apical periodontitis

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