57172 - 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)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)

Learning outcomes

The aim of Preventive and community dentistry is to develop global health topics and social health determinants, giving the knowledge on public dentistry within the National Health System and providing essential tools for promoting oral health and prevent the main dental diseases.

Course contents

Evolution of Health concept

Social Health determinants

The healthcare system

Prevention in dentistry

LEA in dentistry (essential levels of assistency)

Oral health promotion

Epidemiological indexes

Epidemiology of the Caries

Epidemiology of Periodontal Disease

National guidelines for oral health promotion

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Final oral examination

Teaching tools

Computer material and references provided during lessons.

Office hours

See the website of Maria Lavinia Bartolucci