20630 - Odontostomatological Diseases (A-K)

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Docente: Cesare Nucci
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/28
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

The students will learn about all inflammatory diseases of teeth (dental decay, pulpitis) and parodontum; traumatic diseases of teeth and maxillo-facial district; malignant and potentially malignant lesions

Course contents

Odontogenic Cysts and Tumors Non-Odontogenic Cysts Pseudocysts Odontogenic Tumors – Epithelial, Mesenchymal, and Mixed Lesions that primarily affect the Oral Cavity and/or Skin White and/or Red LesionsOral Candidiasis White Lesions Acute Pseudomembranous Candidiasis (Thrush) Chronic Plaque Candidiasis (Hyperplastic Stomatitis) Red Lesions Acute Erythematous Candidiasis Chronic Denture Stomatitis (Erythematous or Atrophic) White-Red Lesions Angular Cheilitis Median Rhombic Glossitis Preneoplastic Lesions Vesicular Lesions Herpes Simplex (Primary Herpetic Gingivostomatitis, Herpes Labialis, Recurrent Intraoral Herpes) Herpes Zoster Bullous Lesions Pemphigus Group and Pemphigoid Group Erosive-Ulcerous Lesions Traumatic Ulcers Syphilis-Recurrent Oral Aphthous Ulcers or Ulcers -Minor Oral Ulcers -Major Oral Ulcers (Sutton's Disease) -Herpetiform Ulcers -Behçet's Disease -Erythema Multiforme -White-Red Lesions-Vesiculobullous-Erosive -Lichen Planus -Lesions that primarily affect the Oral Cavity -Lesions on proliferating mucosa -Benign Lesions -Papilloma -Fibroma -Fibropapilloma -Lipoma -Angioma -Epulis -Malignant Lesions: Oral Ca -Lesions associated with Systemic Diseases that may secondarily manifest as Oral Lesions -Blood Diseases -Red Blood Diseases (Anemia) -White Blood Diseases (Leukemia, Neutropenia, Agranulocytosis) -Haemocoagulation System Disorders -Diabetes Mellitus Malabsorption Syndromes AIDS -Oral Hairy Leukoplakia (OHL) -Kaposi's Sarcoma

Readings/Bibliography

Montebugnoli Lucio: Patologia e Medicina Orale ed Martina 2009

Teaching methods

Taught lessons finalized to get 1 CFU. 

Theoretical lectures will be conducted in a multimedia-equipped classroom, primarily using PPT slides. Students will be provided with electronic versions of the slides presented during the lectures via email.

Assessment methods

Quizzes with multiple answer (7 for Audiology, 7 for ENT, 8 for Dentist Medicine and surgery, 9 for Ophthalmology). Duration: 1 h. As an alternative, possibility of oral exam by request concerning the program. No phones or textbooks are allowed.

Each correct answer is worth one point. The student who answers all questions correctly receives 30L.

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

Theoretical lectures will be conducted in a multimedia-equipped classroom, primarily using PPT slides. Students will be provided with electronic versions of the slides presented during the lectures.

Office hours

See the website of Cesare Nucci