Aim

The familiarization of the students for the operation of the clinics and the development of introductory competences for patients’ management and for implementation of simple clinical procedures.

Learning outcomes

• Control the operation field and infection, to manage the patients and to apply four-hand dentistry.
• Diagnose and record the carious lesions,
• Evaluate the existed restorations and the aesthetic problems.
• Assess the individual caries risk.
• Create treatment plan for the management of the carious affected teeth.
• Create protocols for prevention and arresting of carious disease.
• Apply pit/fissure sealants, preventive resin composite restorations, Class I resin composite and amalgam restorations.
• Diagnose the basic clinical parameters that characterize the pathologic periodontium, such as bleeding in probing (inflammation), the widening of the pockets and the loss of clinical attachment and recession.
• Recognize and integrate the clinical, radiographic and laboratory findings of the periodontal patient in order to make a correct diagnosis
• Complement and analyze the medical and dental history of the periodontal patient, identify existing periodontal lesions as well as potential synergistic factors.
• Record the periodontal history
• Evaluates the possible involvement of the general agent in the etiology of periodontal disease
• Teaches and educates the patient in modern oral hygiene methods.
• Scaling and polishing of teeth

Educational methods

• Seminars and clinical exercise

Criteria for successful completion

• Attendance (at least 80%) of seminars and clinical exercises (no grading)