37375 - Maxillofacial Surgery

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5708)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will possess the fundamental knowledge and clinical methodology to:
- Evaluate the clinical and radiographic presentation of facial trauma and determine its origin based on objective criteria.
- Recognize the primary therapeutic approaches for facial bone fractures, orbital hematomas, and facial wounds.
- Understand how to treat complications.

Course contents

- Maxillofacial trauma emergencies

- Traumatology of the mandible

- Traumatology of the upper jaw and the zygomatic region

- Traumatology of the orbit, orbito-nasal and frontal region

Readings/Bibliography

Marcus JR, Erdmann D, Rodriguez ED - Essentials of Craniomaxillofacial Trauma, Quality Medical Publishing, 2012

Singh AK, Sharma NK - Maxillofacial Trauma-A Clinical Guide, Springer Nature, 2021

Teaching methods

Lectures aided by slide presentations, films, simulators, anatomical models and augmented reality

Assessment methods

Methods currently being defined.

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

VR/AR Digital Workstations

3D-printed Models

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Badiali