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, with particular attention to the diagnostic and therapeutic pathways, and to the pathogenesis and morpho manifestations - histological and clinical.
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: acquiring its own integrated vision of pathologies of the oral cavity which, starting from the assumption that many of them can represent the localization of dermatological and/or infectious pathologies, leads to a unitary conception of the state of health, with the ability to predict the realistic consequences of the simplest pathological situations and to know how to manage them from a diagnostic and therapeutic point of view. The student will have to show possession of the ability to use the knowledge acquired by demonstrating that he thinks according to the specific logic of the discipline. You must be able to frame a clinical case clinically, proposing possible differential diagnoses and setting up a treatment plan once the diagnosis is made.
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.

Knowledge of oral pathologies, head and neck anatomy, histology, general pathology.

The course contents will describe the following aspects of the pathologies and clinical conditions described in the Program section:
- Clinical presentation
- Morphological and histopathological, radiographic characteristics, treatment and prognosis of the pathologies treated during the course
- Specific management of the dental hygienist

Manuale di Patologia e Medicina Orale, (author Giuseppe Ficarra, Editore McGraw-Hill Education; 3rd edition).

Igienista orale. Terapia e pratica professionale (authors Cortesi Ardizzone, Abbinante; Edra edizioni; 2nd edition)
Scientific literature described during the lessons.
Lecturer's notes

The program of the course includes the following topics:

- MRONJ and osteoradionecrosis
- Inflammatory and neoplastic pathologies of the salivary glands
- Approach to the patient undergoing oncological therapies
- Odontogenic cysts of the maxillary bones
- Non-odontogenic cysts of the maxillary bones
- Non-plaque-associated gingivitis
- Patient with secondary injuries to systemic diseases
- Patient on multi-drug therapy
- Odontogenic tumors

ex cathedra lessons, clinical internship at the Oral Medicine and Pathology outpatient clinic of the SC Clinica Odontostomatologica

The recordings of the lessons are available on the Teams platform

The assessment of the achievement of the objectives set by the course includes an oral exam in which the student presents a clinical case 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 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