Introduce the student to the knowledge of cellular responses to damage; explain how tumors are made and the differences between benign and malignant tumors. Give familiarity to the student with the most frequent pathologies of the head and neck district. Knowledge and understanding of the various pathology of oral cavity to apply them to the daily clinic. Give autonomy of judgment in a morphological diagnostic reasoning and to allow communication abilities to be able to express properly from a technical point of view.

Not necessary.

Roles of pathologic anatomy; cellular reactions; neoplastic lesions; dystrophic lesions.
Dental caries, periodontitis, gingivitis, major infections of the mouth, jaws and perioral tissues. Cysts of the jaws. Odontogenic tumours and tumour-like lesions of the jaws. Non odontogenic tumours of the jaws. Infective and non infective stomatitis. Tongue disorders. Benign chronic white mucosal lesions. Oral premalignancy. Oral cancer. Neoplastic and non neoplastic diseases of salivary glands. Mesenchymal neoplasms of the oral cavity. Melanoma and pigmented lesions of the oral cavity.

1. Pathologic Anatomy -
Robbins - Kumar - Cotran
Casa Editrice: Emsi [Roma].

2. Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine [Paperback]
Roderick A. Cawson (Author), Edward W. Odell (Author)
Churchill Livingstone – Elsevier.

The course aims to teach students about the main diseases that can reallize in the oral cavity, whether infectious inflammatory, noninfectious inflammatory, degenerative, autoimmune, or neoplastic.
At the end of the course, students will have the ability to recognize preneoplastic and neoplastic oral lesions.

Roles of pathologic anatomy; cellular reactions; methods of recovery of the wounds; inflammation; neoplastic lesions; dystrophic lesions.
Dental caries, periodontitis, gingivitis, major infections of the mouth, jaws and perioral tissues. Cysts of the jaws. Odontogenic tumours and tumour-like lesions of the jaws. Non odontogenic tumours of the jaws. Infective and non infective stomatitis. Tongue disorders. Benign chronic white mucosal lesions. Oral premalignancy. Oral cancer. Neoplastic and non neoplastic diseases of salivary glands. Mesenchymal neoplasms of the oral cavity. Melanoma and pigmented lesions of the oral cavity.

Lectures on the main topics on the syllabus with use of slides all present in moodle. At the end of the course students will have the opportunity to attend an autopsy.

The teacher is at disposal for informations; at the beginning of the course the didactic material is delivered; at the beginning of the course there is explained the manner of management of the course and of the examinations.
The didactic material is available on the Moodle platform.

The lecturer will create partial appeals on Esse 3 in congruous number of dates and number of students so that there is ample room for those who intend to take the exam to participate.
Oral examination useful for assessing the student's knowledge of the main ways in which cells react to damage, causes and morphologies of tumors, differences between benign and malignant tumors, and inflammatory, dysimmune and neoplastic oral lesions of the oral cavity.
Three questions are usually asked, one on the general part and two on the oral pathology part.
Grading in thirtieths.
The exam assessment will be based on the following principles:
Excellent (30 - 30 with honors): excellent knowledge of the topics, excellent language skills, excellent analytical skills; the student is able to brilliantly apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Very good (27 - 29): good knowledge of the topics, remarkable language skills, good analytical skills; the student is able to correctly apply theoretical knowledge
to concrete cases.
- Good (24-26): good knowledge of the main topics, fair language skills; the student shows an adequate ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Satisfactory (21-23): the student does not show full mastery of the main topics of the course, although he/she possesses the fundamental knowledge; however, he/she shows satisfactory language skills and sufficient ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Sufficient (18-20): minimal knowledge of the main topics of the course and of
technical language, limited ability to adequately apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Insufficient: the student does not have an acceptable knowledge of the contents of the various topics of the program.

Exam duration about 20 minutes if the student answers nimbly.
At the end of the partial roll call, the lecturer will post the results on Esse 3 so that the Module Coordinator can proceed to make weighted averages.

This teaching contributes to the realization of the ONU goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [Goal 4, quality education, and Goal 5, gender equality].