Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics I

Code:

MIMD030211

Acronym:

ODPORTO I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Dental Medicine

Instance: 2025/2026 - 2S

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	67	Official Plan for the Academic Year 2025/2026	3	-	6	90	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To prepare future dentists to provide oral health care to children, adolescents and people with special needs. To be able to collaborate in a multidisciplinary child health team.To be effective to teach and motivate oral health literacy.
Deepen knowledge of normal and pathological human development, with a special focus on the face and stomatognathic apparatus. Know the basic concepts of malocclusion and be able to recognize normal and abnormal development of the face, occlusion and orofacial functions.

Know and handle instruments an d materials for clinical use and, using simulators, develop the skills to carry out clinical procedures in pediatric dentistry.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understand in a targeted and in-depth manner the morphofunctional and dysfunctional aspects of the stomatognathic apparatus at the various stages of human development.
Be able and competent to take an active part in clinical initiation to solve clinical cases in the field of paediatric dentistry.

General and fine motor skills to carry out orthodontic laboratory procedures and paediatric dentistry clinical acts.
Know and be able to handle the most common instruments and materials for clinical use in paediatric dentistry.

Working method

Presencial

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

Dental nomenclature, dental classifications, general and specific morphological characteristics of the temporary and permanent dentition and their eruption chronology.
Embryology of the head and neck.
Knowledge of general growth and bone remodelling.
Classification and movement of the joints of the skull, face and TMJ.
Muscle physiology.
Knowledge of the aspects that are common to the use of drugs, the general mechanisms of action and the evaluation of the therapeutic effect for the rational use of medicines.

Program

Post-natal craniofacial growth. Occlusion development, maturation and ageing. Pathophysiology of orofacial functions. Dysfunctions, parafunctions and oral habits. Etiology of malocclusion.
Clinical examination, diagnosis and treatment plan in paediatric dentistry.
Psychological characteristics of children and adolescents.
Clinical implications of the differences between temporary and permanent teeth.
Developmental dental anomalies.
Importance of the first permanent molar.
Imaging in paediatric dentistry.
Dental materials in paediatric dentistry.
Caries prevention in paediatric dentistry.
Pathophysiology and therapy of caries in temporary and permanent dentition: minimally invasive procedures, pulp therapy in paediatric dentistry.
Oral and periodontal pathology in children and adolescents.
Dental trauma.
Particularities of anaesthesia and pain control.
Introduction to oral surgery in paediatric dentistry.
Prosthetic treatment for children and adolescents.
Patients with special needs and medically compromised patients.

Activity in a pre-clinical context:
Performing cavity preparations, restorative and pulp treatments with different techniques and materials on simulators.
Introduction and handling of instruments and materials for making biomechanical orthodontic appliances.

Mandatory literature

Andrade , David Casimiro de; Textos escolhidos de odontopediatria. ISBN: 978-989-746-137-8
Proffit , William R.; Contemporary Orthodontics. ISBN: 978-0-323-54387-3
Harris , Norman O.; Primary preventive dentistry. ISBN: 0-8385-8129-3
Moyers , Robert E.; Handbook of orthodontics. ISBN: 0-8151-6003-8
Graber , Lee W.; Orthodontics : current principles and techniques. ISBN: 978-0-323-37832-1
Andrade DC, Pimenta J, Rebelo P; Materiais Adesivos em Crianças e Jovens - Técnicas e Aplicações Clínicas, Porto Editora. ISBN: 972-0-06035-2
Ghassem A, Mojtaba VG, Richard ; Atlas of Pediatric Oral and Dental Developmental Anomalies , Wiley-Blackwell
Enlow D.H.; Handbook of Facial Growth, Sauders. ISBN: 13: 978-0721633862.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes with a critical exposition of the concepts, supported by teaching and communication technologies that the teacher explores and adjusts to suit.

Practical laboratory classes of pre-clinical activity, using simulators.

Pre-clinical assessments will be based on the OSCE Methodology - adapted criteria for pre-clinical procedures, provided to students in the presentation class.

keywords

Health sciences > Medical sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Teste	70,00
Trabalho laboratorial	25,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas
Trabalho escrito
Trabalho laboratorial
Estudo autónomo
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance is a prerequisite for the student's success, with attendance at a minimum of 75% of face-to-face contact.

Students with "student worker" status, despite the legal exemption from checking attendance, are not exempt
from the learning provided by the on-site contact hours nor from submitting to the assessment components provided for other students, in good time.

Calculation formula of final grade

For approval the student must have completed ALL the components of the assessment, regardless of the student's status.

Final grade = 70% T/P + 30% P/L

In normal season

T/P component - 70%, through partial tests with a minimum mark (10 points).

P/L component - 30%

• 50 % practical test with a minimum mark (10)


• 25% sum of pre-clinical work


• 25% portfolio.

Appeal season

For students to be eligible for the appeal period, they must have attended 75% of the time and have obtained a positive evaluation in each of the P/L assessment parameters.

Calculation of the grade in appeal = 70% T/P + 30% P/L

T/P component - Test with the minimum mark (10 points).
P/L component - Mark obtained in this component during the course, with a minimum mark (10).

Examinations or Special Assignments

NA

Internship work/project

NA

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Access to special assessment, regardless of status or regime, is only possible for the component assigned to tests and implies having completed all the other components and criteria of continuous assessment.

Classification improvement

This course is a continuous assessment course:

• improvement can be done to 70% of the grade, corresponding to the T/P class tests.

In order to improve the whole grade, it will be necessary to attend the course again.