- Docente: Gabriela Piana
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/28
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in School of Dentistry (cod. 8204)
Course contents
Doctor-Patient communication with the pediatric patient, patient
and family management.
Clinical examination in Pediatric Dentistry.
Craniofacial development: embryology and growth.
Morfology and histology of primary and permanent teeth.
Development and characteristics of the primary, mixed and permanent
dentition.
Dental anomalies.
Radiographic diagnosis in pediatric dentistry.
Guidelines for the promotion of oral health in children: oral
hygiene, use of topical and systemic fluoride (metabolism,
mechanisms of action, side effects), power supply, sealing of pits
and fissures.
Pain control in the child patient.
Caries in deciduous teeth (etiology, diagnosis and
therapy).
Pulpal disease in deciduous teeth (etiology, diagnosis and
therapy)
Periapical pathology of endodontic origin in deciduous
teeth (etiology, diagnosis and therapy).
Dental injuries of traumatic origin of deciduous and permanent
teeth (classification, diagnosis and therapy).
Office hours
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