Knowledge and understanding: the student will have to demonstrate the knowledge relating to the most recent national and international guidelines, commented during the lectures, with particular attention to diagnostic, therapeutic and care pathways.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the student must demonstrate the acquisition of skills, tools and has to acquire a conscious independence of judgment in relation to the topics covered.
Making judgements: the student will have to demonstrate the possession of the ability to use the knowledge acquired by demonstrating a specific judgement of the discipline. They must be able to evaluate the degree of evidence of a scientific article present on the main search engines and to evaluate the strength of the recommendations of the ministerial guidelines.
Communication skills: during the lessons, students will be encouraged to interact and discuss with each other by proposing questions and exercises aimed at re-elaborating the knowledge learned.
Learning skills: the student must be able to independently explore the topics covered in the course through the critical consultation of scientific articles provided by the teacher.

Notions of human and dental anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pathology and general hygiene.
To take the examination the student must have passed the following integrated courses in the syllabus: C.I. Dental Hygiene Sciences 3.

The course content covers prevention, diagnostic and care pathways, prevention and management of oral health in adults and pediatrics, oncological patients and the infectious risk related to dental maneuvers.

Ministry of Health website, workbooks relating to community dentistry, guidelines for pediatric and adult patients, cancer patients and infectious risk in dentistry.
The ministerial workbooks will be provided in full by the lecturer at the beginning of the Course and will be available on the Teams platform.

Meaning of dental and community prevention.
Community definition and classification.
Communities of healthy people and people with systemic pathologies.
Community in public health centers and main related clinical aspects.
Principles of home therapy.
Promotion of oral health and health education.
Motivation and organization of a preventive program.
Secondary and tertiary prevention.
Epidemiology, epidemiological indices, etiopathogenetic aspects and preventive strategies of the main oral-dental diseases in pediatric and adult patients.
Role of the dentist and dental hygienist in the prevention of the main oral pathologies.
Food education and oral hygiene.
Systemic and topical fluoroprophylaxis.
Patients with health and social vulnerability.
Pathologies associated with oncological treatments and prevention of the main complications drug-related.
Cross-site and dental-related infections, prevention and management.

Conventional lectures. Any changes to the methods described herein, which may be necessary to ensure the application of COVID19 emergency-related safety protocols, will be communicated on the DSM, Course of Study and teaching websites.

Lessons will be recorded and stored on Teams platform.

Students must sit the individual partial examinations on the dates scheduled in the Degree Course examination calendar. In particular, the performance of partial examinations, the results of which must be published using the "Partial examinations" IT tool provided by the Esse3 platform, and will be recorded in a single final appeal in which the Commission proceeds to verify the overall results of the integrated course and to record them. The student must register for the online appeal of the partial examination on ESSE3. The grade for the partial examination will be considered valid until the extraordinary session of the academic year in question.In order to pass the examination relating to the teaching course, the student must obtain a grade of ≥ 18 in each of the partial examinations; he/she may not reject the result of the partial examination, but only the grade for the entire integrated course and, in this case, he/she must repeat all the partial examinations.
The final mark for the integrated course examination is derived from the weighted average, thus weighted on the CFUs of each module, obtained in the individual partial tests. For the purposes of defining the average, any honours obtained in the partial examinations will be assigned the value of 1 point, i.e. a mark of 30 with honours in the partial examinations corresponds numerically to a mark of 31. In order to assign honours to the final examination mark, it will be necessary for the weighted average obtained by the student in the partial examinations relating to the various modules to be >30,5.

The exam is based on the whole program of the course. The knowledge acquired will be verified through a written exam with multiple choice and open questions.
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, she shows satisfactory language skills and sufficient ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Sufficient (18-20): minimal 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.

This teaching explores topics closely related to one or more of the goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.