RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- MAURIZIO FRANCHI
- Credits
- 10
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
Training objectives
- Fundamental knowledge about oral and cental anatomy: oral anatomy, systematic dental teeth anatomy, dental histology.
Basic knowledge on main clinical and radiographic parameters to assess caries disease. Prerequisites
- Students should have adequate knowledge on oral anatomy and histology, oral microbiology and immunology, oral pathology
Course programme
- Fundamental knowledge of oral anatomy. Human maxillary dentition. Systematic dental anatomy (permanent and deciduous teeth). Hard and soft oral and dental tissues. Histology and teeth's embriology.
Epidemiology of caries disease.
Dental Biofilms and Microbiology: etiological agents, mechanisms of pathogenicity. Pathogenetic Aspects of Caries disease: tissue distruction, progression to destructive lesions, host defense processes. Innate and acquired risk factors, host susceptibility.
Instruments and materials in restorative dentistry. Caries' lesions: etiology, pathogenesis, prophylaxis ( fluorineprophylaxis pit and fissure sealants) clinical features, diagnosis (clinical and radiographic), treatment. Didactic methods
- Frontal lessons. Pre-clinical training on phantom. Clinical Training.
Learning assessment procedures
- At the second half
Reference texts
- Mangani-Lamanna, Manuale di disegno e modellazione dentale, Ed. Martina 1999
Lloyd E. Dubrul, Anatomia orale di Sicher, Edi. Ermes
Anderlini, Moderni orientamenti per la restaurazione dentale, Ed. Martina
Vanini, Il restauro conservativo dei denti anteriori, Promoden Ed.
Dallari, Odontoiatria conservatrice I e II, Ed. Martina BO
