06714 - Special Odontostomatological Pathology

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Cesare Nucci
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: MED/28
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)

Learning outcomes

The students will learn the ethiology of the most common oral diseases; in particular dental diseases and diseases affecting oral mucosa, including potentially malignant lesions and oral carcinoma


Course contents

- odontogenic cysts and tumors
- ATM disorders
- oral immunology
- HIV
- Herpes virus
- lichen
- candidosis
- erythema multiforme
- apthosis

- pigmented lesions
- potentially malignant lesions
- carcinoma

- burning mouth syndrome, halitosis, xerostomia


Readings/Bibliography

Slides online

Teaching methods

taught lessons finalized to get 3 CFU


Assessment methods

the final examination consists in an oral examination aimed to evaluate the knowledge of the patho-physiologyy of the diseases of the oral mucosa


Teaching tools

taught lessons

Office hours

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