25773 - Implantology

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Docente: Pietro Felice
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/28
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is able to recognise, to face and to solve simple cases of dental implants maintenance. In particular the student will be able to know principal implant features, osseointegration principles, differences between implants and teeth, risk factors of the implant patient and basic principles of reconstructive surgery.

Course contents

  • Basic knowledges of oral anatomy related to implant placement
  • Implant surfaces and osseointegration
  • Risk factors in implant patients
  • Basic principles of reconstructive surgeries
  • Peri-implant health maintenance
  • Ordinary and extraordinary hygienic maintenances
  • Peri-implantitis

Readings/Bibliography

Roberto Pistilli, Pietro Felice. Anatomy and surgery of the oral cavity - Mandible and Oral Floor. Editalia Medica

Roberto Pistilli, Pietro Felice. Anatomy and surgery of the oral cavity - Maxilla and Zygomatic Region. Editalia Medica

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination

At the end of the course, students will be examined on the topics covered in class.

Teaching tools

Lessons will be conducted with the help of power-point presentations.

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.

Office hours

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