34335 - Training in Preventive and Community Dentistry

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in School of Dentistry (cod. 5988)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has attended the service assigned to him and therefore has a preparation that allows him to recognise, deal with and resolve simple diagnostic cases.

Course contents

The preventive and community dentistry internship aims to provide knowledge regarding public dentistry within the national health system; to address the concept of health and its social determinants; to provide information on the tools suitable for interventions to promote oral health and prevent the main dental diseases.

It includes lectures and internships on the following topics:

-Use of topical and systemic fluoride

-Healthy eating: foods with a carioprotective action

-Periodic checks

-Sealing of pits and fissures

-Caries risk assessment.

Readings/Bibliography

Selected scientific articles on the topics covered.

Teaching methods

Lectures and internship in the department.

Assessment methods

oral exam.

Teaching tools

Computer material and bibliography provided in class.

Office hours

See the website of Federica Florenzano