The course aims to ensure that students acquire:
1) Knowledge and understanding: The student will have to show mastery of the knowledge relating to the pathologies treated during the theoretical lessons and within the reference textbook. Gain insight into disease-fighting mechanisms by examining the coordinated interactions between different cellular systems in the development of inflammation related to protection against infection. Become familiar with the basis and integrated functioning of acquired and adaptive immunity in different cellular and molecular functions.
Understand the concept of self and non-self and the basis of autoimmune diseases. Finally, study the functions of the immune system associated with the development of neoplastic cells.
2) Applying knowledge and understanding: The student must show that he has acquired skills, tools and a conscious independence of judgment in relation to the pathologies treated.
3) Making judgements: These notions will be the fundamental baggage for understanding the pathologies of the oral cavity in the various clinical manifestations (odontogenic and non-odontogenic infections of the oral cavity, periodontal pathologies, tumors of the oral cavity, etc.)
4) Communication skills: getting used to the presentation, in the classroom, of the concepts requested by the teacher, in a stimulating and interactive teaching environment. Students will always be urged to keep in mind the need for scientifically rigorous presentation and communication with colleagues and simple, albeit comprehensive, with patients and their families. They will be stimulated to express themselves with a correct and essential language.
5) Learning skills: during the frontal lessons, reference will mainly be made to the texts recommended by the reference teachers of the individual modules, although students will be encouraged to consult several of them, citing the sources of the information presented. The topics covered will always be addressed from different points of view, so that the student can form a clear and complete opinion.

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- The immune system and its components.
- The inflammatory response
- The Complement: activation and functions
- Humoral and infocyte immunity B
- T lymphocytes
- activation of the immune system against infectious agents
- activity of the immune system in the oral cavity
- Autoimmunity
- Immune hypersensitivity
- immune deficiencies

Microbiologia ed Immunologia del cavo orale
di Lamont - Burne - Lantz - LeBlanc
- lesson's notes

- The immune system and its components.
- Immune homeostasis
- The inflammatory response
- The Complement: activation and functions
- Humoral and infocyte immunity B
- T lymphocytes
- activation of the immune system against infectious agents
- activity of the immune system in the oral cavity
- Autoimmunity
- Cancer immunology
- Immune hypersensitivity

Frontal lessons ex catherda

The recordings of the lessons are available on the Teams platform

The assessment of the knowledge learned will be performed through a written exam with both multiple choice and open questions. By means of questions regarding the contents of the course, it will be ascertained whether the student has achieved the objective of knowledge and understanding of the contents. The assessment of the achievement of the course objectives includes an oral exam in which the student presents a clinical case, prepared with the support of a power point/keynote/pdf presentation, followed during the diagnostic-therapeutic process. By means of questions regarding the contents of the course, it will be ascertained whether the student has achieved the objective of knowledge and understanding of the contents. The exam is based on the whole program of the course. The evaluation grid adopted is the following:
- Excellent (30 - 30 cum laude): 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, good command of the language; 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 subjects of the teaching, even if he/she possesses the fundamental knowledge; however, he shows satisfactory language skills and sufficient ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases
- Sufficient (18-20): minimum knowledge of the main teaching topics and 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 programme

During the course some of the main issues indicated in the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development will be addressed, i.e. spreading the importance of primary and secondary prevention through the reduction of
the exposure of the population to environmental and anthropogenic risk factors, and the spread
of healthy lifestyles by strengthening prevention systems