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00159 - Plastic Surgery

Academic Year 2025/2026

                
                        Docente:
                        Rossella Sgarzani
                    
                        Credits:
                        2
                    
                        SSD:
                        MED/19
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
                            School of Dentistry (cod. 8204)

                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Oct 10, 2025 to Dec 12, 2025

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student: - knows the principles of plastic surgery and how they are applied in different settings. In particular will know the methods used in breast reconstruction, in the reconstruction of head and neck and in other anatomical areas.

Course contents

1.What does plastic surgery involve?

2. What are the stages of wound healing?

3. Types of pathological healing.

4.Difference between hypertrophic scar and keloid.

5. To achieve the best possible scar, along which lines should incisions be oriented?

6. Types of sutures, types of stitches.

7. After how long should a stitch be removed on the face? And on the body?

8. What is lipofilling?

9. What are the two objectives of lipofilling?

10. What is a skin graft?

11. Classifications of skin grafts and their differences.

12. What is a local flap?

13. Anatomical classification of flaps.

14. Geometric classification of local flaps.

15. Classification of the vascularization of local flaps.

16. What is a free flap or micro-surgical flap?

17. Examples of application of free flap or micro-surgical flap.

18. Definition of burn.

19. Possible causes of burns.

20. Factors that influence the prognosis of burns.

21. Classification of burns based on thickness.

22. Classification of burns based on severity.

23. Emergency burn surgery

24. Acute phase burn surgery

25.Cleft lip and palate: diagnostic framework and treatment principles

26.Nose reconstruction: history and principles

27. Principles of aesthetic surgery: aesthetic analysis of the face and profile

Readings/Bibliography

Giele, Cassell - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Oxford University Press
GRABB and SMITH'S - Plastic Surgery - Wolters Kluwer Health
RAPOSIO, SANTI- Principi di chirurgia plastica – Ed . Libellula

Teaching methods

The course will consist of lectures.
Specific iconography will be projected to support the theoretical foundations.

Assessment methods

The end-of-course assessment consists of an oral exam to evaluate the achievement of the following educational objectives: - to know the principles and basic techniques in reconstructive plastic surgery (mandatory) - to be able to analyze the aesthetics of a face (frontal and profile) (mandatory) - to delve into topics addressed that have interested the student (optional). The exam grade for the integrated course is an average of the grades obtained in the three different subjects that make up the teaching unit.

Teaching tools

Frontal lessons, Projection of slides, attendance through practical training (when possible), suggested book texts.

Any further information may be processed outside the lessons timetable with those who explicitly request it.

Office hours

See the website of Rossella Sgarzani