Preventive Dental Medicine I

Code:

306

Acronym:

306

Instance: 2005/2006 - A

Active?	Yes
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Course/CS Responsible:

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	37	Plano oficial a partir de 2000	3	4	7	-

Objectives

Preventive Dentistry and Community Oral Health (MDP I)
• Aims

Our student will be introduced to the Community Oral Health area and Preventive Dentistry methods at this stage (Medicina Dentária Preventiva I - MDP I) as future professional needs specific preparation to answer oral health problems of community. The starting point for epidemiological studies and analysis on Oral Health levels of several universes (populations) is our regularly upgraded data base, started more than 20 years ago. These are fundamental elements allowing evaluation on quality of live.
The data values, taken regularly and systematically in the campus work by each student give them detailed and knowledge of conditioning factors of the Community Oral Health, and give direct contact with reality. Our students integrate several “Oral Health Teams” that observe, in average, per year, 1000 citizen collecting 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 accurate, stimulating 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

Programme:
Introduction. Nomenclature and definitions. Brief introduction to the History of Dentistry. Basics on Preventive Dentistry. Introduction to Community Oral Health.
Problems:
Introduction; characterization and hierarchical structure of Public Oral Health issues, measuring units (indices, caries indices, periodontopathies caries indices, malocclusion indices, oral fissures indices, oral cancer indices, dental fluorosis index and oral hygiene index. Conclusion.), dental care needs (measuring methods), analysis of caries (planning, implementation and mapping).
History of fluorine in Dentistry.
Methods:
Introduction; prevention levels and stages of application. Relationship between prevention levels and stages of application of Public Health methods. Methods used to treat Public Oral Health problems. Caries - First prevention level (Health promotion), Second prevention level (specific protection), Third prevention level (early diagnosis and immediate treatment), Fourth prevention level (damage limitation), Fifth prevention level (individual rehabilitation).

Main Bibliography

-Norman O Harris, Franklin Garcia-Godoy. “Primary Preventive Dentistry”. Fifth Edition. Ed. Appleton & Lange, 1999.
-Mário M. Chaves. “Odontologia Social”. 2nd Edition. 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.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes
Theoretical/practical classes

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Observations

Teaching staff:





Professor Doutor Acácio Couto Jorge (Head of the Department)
Dra. Isabel Roçadas Pires (Training Teaching Assistant)