34449 - Operative Dentistry 3

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in School of Dentistry (cod. 8204)

Learning outcomes

The student has to achieve the ability to recognize the clinical aspects of conservative reconstructions, as well as to address and solve complex interdisciplinary clinical cases in relation to the conservative dentistry

Course contents

1.Diagnosis and treatment plan in conservative dentistry 2.Therapy of the carious lesion. 3.Isolation of the operative field. 4. Biological aspects: dental tissues, pulp protection and dentin bonding systems. 5. Composite resins and clinical applications. 6. Direct posterior restorations. 7.Direct anterior restorations. 9. Adhesive cementation. 10. Indirect posterior restorations. 11.Indirect anterior restorations. 12. Restoration of the endodontically treated tooth. 13.Traumatology. 14.Occlusion and conservative dentistry.

Readings/Bibliography

1. Odontoiatria Restaurativa - procedure di trattamento e prospettive future - ed. Elsevier 2. Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry: A Contemporary Approach, Fourth Edition, by Thomas J. Hilton, Jack L. Ferracane, James C. Broome. Ed. Quintessence Int.

Teaching methods

Lessons and training in clinical department

Assessment methods

oral exams and clinical managing of a patient. 
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

slides and research articles

Office hours

See the website of Lorenzo Breschi