Conservative Dentistry Clinics I

Code:

MIMD040102

Acronym:

CMDC I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Dental Medicine

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Gestão Académica
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Dental Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMD	54	Official Plan from the academic year 2020/2021	4	-	6	117	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Introduction to clinical activity in Conservative Dentistry, through an appropriate selection of cases.

 - Carrying out clinical acts that include the diagnosis of pulp and periapical lesions

- Presentation of therapeutic options, focused on resolving the patient's main complaint.

 - Assessment of the difficulty of treatment from the point of view of conservative dentistry

- Permanent restoration of low complexity, provisional and pre-endodontic restoration, in anterior and posterior teeth (in patients).

-Performance of low complexity endodontic treatments in patients

- Endodontic treatment and deep coronal restorations follow-up protocol in patients

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester students should know:

- Diagnose pulp and periapical lesions

- Diagnose caries lesions

- Propose the various therapeutic alternatives, informing the patient about the prognosis of each one;

- Assess the difficulty of endodontic treatment and restorative options

- Carry out conservative pulp treatmens, urgent clinical cases and simple

 difficulty endodontic and restorative treatments in patients

- Perform adequate control / follow-up of clinical cases

- Guidelines of systemic drug prescription

- They should also be able to communicate, systematize and substantiate their clinical cases, as well as their therapeutic options.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Students should be familiar with basic clinical procedures for operative dentistry, endodontics and intra-oral local anesthesia.

Program

- Presentation Class of the CMDC-I Curricular Unit

- Operative Dentistry Seminar: Clinical Practice

- Introduction to clinical practice in Endodontics. Clinical record/report

- Isolation of the Operative Field: relative vs. absolute

- Treatment of teeth with incomplete rhizogenesis

- Restoration of Teeth with Endodontic Treatment

- Emergency treatment – clinical protocol. Assessment of the degree of difficulty of the Endodontic Treatment

- Treatment of Non-Carious Cervical Lesions

- Systemic prescription in Dental Medicine. Bacterial Endocarditis Prevention Protocol

- Hereditary and environmental anomalies: hypoplasia, fluorosis, dentinogenesis imperfecta and amelogenesis imperfecta

- Indications and contraindications of the Endodontic Treatment. Pre-endodontic reconstruction

- Minimally Invasive Dentistry: General Concepts

- Factors that influence the success of the Endodontic Treatment

- Presentation and discussion of clinical cases

Mandatory literature

Kenneth M. Hargreaves; Cohen.s pathways of the pulp. ISBN: 978-0-323-09635-5
Lopes HP, Siquiera JF. Endodoncia; Endodontia: Biologia e Técnica, Elsevier Brasil, 2020
Mondelli J.; Dentística Operatória, Santos, 2014
Hirata Ronaldo; TIPS – Dicas em Odontologia Estética, Artes Médicas, 2011
Baratieri Luiz Narciso; Odontologia Restauradora: Fundamentos e Possibilidades, Santos, 2015
Sato Cláudio, Sapata Adriano; SIMPLE: Uma Abordagem Simples em Resinas Compostas. Anatomia, Escultura e Protocolos Clínicos, Napoleão Livros, 2017
Torres, Carlos Rocha Gomes; Princípios Básicos para a Prática Clínica, Santos, 2013
Kenneth J. Anusavice; Science of Dental Materials
John I. Ingle; Endodontics
Leif Tronstad; Clinical Endodontics

Complementary Bibliography

Martin Trope,; Endodontics manual for the general dentist. ISBN: 978-1-85097-089-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

The students will mostly have clinical classes, with patients and a face-to-face period of theoretical classes where clinical topics will be addressed, case discussions, systemic prescription guidelines, clinical practice protocols. At the clinic, students work tutored by teachers, where formative feedback will be given. All clinical works must be subject of reports.

 

Use of the SCOT methodology (Structured Clinical Observation and Teaching) as a teaching and student assessment methodology. There will be structured observation of the student while he/she performs the procedures or clinical acts with the aim of providing immediate feedback.

keywords

Health sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Teste	30,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	10,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the General Regulation for the Assessment of Students of the University of Porto

 

TP component

Attendance of 75% of contact hours for theoretical classes

 

P Component

Attendance of 75% of the contact hours of pratical classes*

 

*Attention: there is no exception for students with special status; To obtain frequency, it is mandatory to carry out work during practical classes (mandatory clinical acts on patients) with a positive evaluation. In all practical classes there will be continuous assessment of the same clinical acts. The lack of this component in practical classes prevents the student from going to the appeal exam and special exam. Students with special status are exempt from attendance but not from frequency.

 

Calculation formula of final grade

Operative Dentistry:

 

Continuous evaluation with the following weighting factors:

1 - Theoretical Test - 30%

2 - Practical Component* + Report** - 70% (60% continuous practical assessment + 10% selected report)

*Assessment of the ability to collect clinical history, diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment execution, communication with the patient

**Report will count 10% towards the practical grade

 

Endodontics:

 

Continuous evaluation with the following weighting factors:

1 - Theoretical Test - 30%

2 - Practical Component + Reports - 70% (reports: 60% + 10% continuous practical assessment)

 

Composition of the final Classification in CMDC-I

 

      Evaluation of components in Dentistry - 50%:

      Evaluation of components in Endodontics - 50%:

The final classification is the arithmetic mean of endodontics and dentistry considering the previously mentioned weighting factors. Each of the components must be positive (≥ 9.5 values). Theoretical and practical components must be positive (≥ 9.5 points each).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Only from the theoretical part
 
Theoretical final written exam in the period of evaluations of the "Recurso" period (all subjects included)
 
No practice (assessment is continuous). Theoretical exam only.

Observations

There will be the possibility of "Recurso", within the stipulated period, only for students who do not reach the final classification of 10 and have at least 75% attendance in practical classes. Students with special status must also have 75% attendance in practical classes to obtain frequency since in all classes there is an assessment of clinical acts (frequency).

 

In order to attend this Curricular Unit (CMDC-I), the student must be able to:

- Have the knowledge in the scientific and technical areas that allow for the diagnosis of pulp and periapical diseases, prevention and treatment of pathologies of the hard tissues of teeth.

- Perform cavity preparations and restorative treatments in a pre-clinical environment in the Dentistry area (Class-I, Class-II, Class-III, Class-IV, Class-V)

- Perform endodontic treatments of single-root and low-difficulty multi-root teeth, pulpotomies and pre-endodontic reconstruction in single-root and multi-root teeth, in a pre-clinical environment

- Make decisions regarding the types of cavity preparation and endodontic techniques that allow proposing appropriate treatment plans for the treatment of pulp lesions at different stages

- To support the selection and rational use of biomaterials related to conservative dentistry