Preventive Dental Medicine II

Code:

611

Acronym:

611

Instance: 2004/2005 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	58	Plano oficial a partir de 2000	6	2	4	-

Objectives

Preventive Dentistry and Community Oral Health
• Aims

Future professional needs specific preparation to answer oral health problems of his community. Giving knowledge in this area and teaching the methods that science and technology put at our disposal, are the aims of this discipline.
The starting point for epidemiological studies and analysis on oral health levels of several universes (populations) is the regularly upgraded data base of the Preventive department, initialized more than 20 years ago. These are fundamental elements that allow evaluation of their quality of live. The data values, regularly and systematically taken in the campus work by each student give them detailed and profound knowledge of many conditioning factors of the Community Oral Health, and permit a direct contact with the reality. Our students integrate several “Oral Health Teams” observing, in average, 1000 citizen/year and recording the value of more than 50 variables, depending on the elected model of work.The structure of the discipline has been the same from the beginning. However it has developed and now is more stimulating for the student which assumes successively “the motivator”, “the annotator”, “the observer”, “the clinician” and the “supervisor” roles. All long his formation he participates on the data record, upgrading of data base, applying preventive methods and proceeding epidemiological analysis and program implementation.

Program

Introduction. The bacterial plaque. Development of lesions caused by caries. The role of the bacterial plaque in etiology and advance of inflammatory periodontal diseases. Tooth brushing. Personal oral hygiene. Dentifrice, elixir and oral irrigation. Fluoride. Fissure sealers. Oral biological defences and teeth demineralization-remineralization. Monitoring of the caries activity. Prevention of periodontal diseases. Sucrose and other sweetening substances. Nutrition and diseases provoked by the bacterial plaque. Motivation. Community Oral Health Programmes. Educational Oral Health Programmes. Oral Health care for physically and mentally disabled. Preventive Dentistry in hospitals. Clinical applications of preventive Dentistry. Research – the future of preventive Dentistry.
Practical Classes.
A – Clinic: .
Determination of DMF and DMFS indexes. Determination of periodontal disease indexes. Clinical motivation methods. Oral Hygiene. Application of fissure sealers. Topical application of fluoride. Detartration and polishing of dental necks. Control of occlusion damage. Control of dental eruption. Control of masticatory malfunctions.
B – Field work.

Main Bibliography

- Norman O Harris, Franklin Garcia-Godoy. “Primary Preventive Dentistry”. Fifth Edition. Ed. Appleton & Lange, 1999.
- Mário M. Chaves. “Odontologia Social”. 2ª Ed. Editorial Labor do Brasil S. A..Rio de Janeiro, 1977.
- Malvin E. Ring. “Historia de la Odontologia”. Ediciones Doyma. Barcelona, 1989.

Complementary Bibliography

- Sounis, E., Bioestatística - Princípios fundamentais, metodologia, estatísticas, aplicação às ciências biológicas. Editora McGraw-Hill do Brasil, Lda. recife, Pernambuco.
- US Department of Health and Human Services, 1990. Long-Range Researsh Plan for the Nineties.
- World Health Organization, 1984. Prevention methods and programmes for oral diseases. Tec. Rep. Series 713.
- Marthaler, T. M., 1997. Guide pour les communes et les médecins-dentistas scolaires. Société Suisse d'Odonto-stomatologie.
- Baciero, G. R., 1999. Patología de la Mucosa Bucal en los Ancianos Españoles. Ediciones Eguía, S. L., Bikaner Gráfica. Bilbao.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes.
Practical Classes.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Observations

Teaching staff:

Professor Doutor Acácio Couto Jorge (Head of the Department)

Dr. Isabel Roçadas Pires (Training Teaching Assistant)