KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNIQUES OF APPLIED ORAL HYGIENE IN THE COMMUNITY
- Knowledge and understanding:
The student will be expected to show mastery of knowledge related to Oral Hygiene as a service to the community and in social settings. He/she should also understand the therapeutic techniques and instruments illustrated during the course.
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
The student should show that he/she has acquired skills, tools and an informed autonomy of judgement in relation to the social role of Oral Hygiene and in relation to the field of use of techniques and tools illustrated during the course.
- Autonomy of judgement:
The student should show possession of the ability to use the knowledge acquired by demonstrating reasoning according to the specific logic of the discipline. He/she should be able to identify the functional correlations between several therapies and therapeutic tools, to extract and synthesise the relevant information related to the tool or technique in question.
relevant information related to the instrument or technique under investigation.
- Communication skills:
At the end of the course, the student should demonstrate the ability to expound on the notions covered in the course.
- Learning skills:
At the end of the course, the student should demonstrate the ability to independently find and learn variations and updates regarding the course topics.
PREVENTIVE AND COMMUNITY DENTISTRY
Knowledge and ability to understand: the student will have to show mastery of the knowledge related to the current national and international guidelines, commented during the lectures, with particular attention to the diagnostic, therapeutic and care pathways.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: the student must show that he/she has acquired skills, tools and a conscious autonomy of judgement in relation to the topics dealt with.
Autonomy of judgement: the student must show possession of the ability to use the knowledge acquired, demonstrating reasoning according to the specific logic of the discipline. He/she should be able to assess the degree of evidence of a scientific article on the main search engines and to evaluate the strength of the recommendations of ministerial guidelines.
Communication skills: during the lessons, students will be stimulated to interact and discuss with each other by proposing questions and exercises aimed at the reworking of the knowledge learned.
Learning skills: the student should be able to independently deepen the topics covered in the course through critical consultation of scientific articles provided by the lecturer.

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES OF APPLIED ORAL HYGIENE IN THE COMMUNITY
Social dentistry and territorial offer
Duties and rights of dental hygienist
Preventive dentistry in various communities
Alimentation and Probiotics
Cariology
Communication
Ozone, laser and microabrasion

PREVENTIVE AND COMMUNITY DENTISTRY
The course contents concern prevention, diagnostic and care pathways, prevention and management of oral health in adult and paediatric subjects, oncology and the infectious risk related to dental manoeuvres.

SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES OF ORAL HYGIENE APPLIED TO THE COMMUNITY
“Odontoiatria di Comuità” Stromhenger L., Ferro R.
“Odontoiatria preventiva integrata” Limeback H.
“Manuale operativo per igienisti dentali” Panzeri M.C., Baldoni M.

PREVENTIVE AND COMMUNITY DENTISTRY
Ministry of Health website, workbooks on community dentistry, guidelines for paediatric 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.

SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES OF APPLIED ORAL HYGIENE IN THE COMMUNITY
The educational objective of the course can be summarised as an understanding of the concept of wellness and prevention and its application in Community Dentistry. The student must acquire the theoretical knowledge, practical skills and clinical criteria in the field of community dentistry, defined as "the science and art of preventing dental disease, promoting oral health and improving the quality of life through joint efforts of society as a whole".
Social dentistry and territorial offer
Duties and rights of dental hygienist
Preventive dentistry in various communities: pregnant patients, children, adolescents, people with addictions, special needs, adults, geriatric patients.
Alimentation and Probiotics
Cariology
Communication
Ozone, laser, microabrasion, infiltrant resins

PREVENTIVE AND COMMUNITY DENTRISTRY
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.

The student must take 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 held valid until the extraordinary session of the academic year in question. In order to pass the examination relating to the course, the student must obtain a mark of ≥ 18 in each of the partial examinations; he/she may not reject the result of the partial examination, but only the mark for the entire integrated course, in which 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 a 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.
For both modules, the examination is based on the entire course programme.
Verification of the knowledge acquired will be performed by means of a written examination with multiple-choice and open-ended questions.

The evaluation grid adopted is as follows:
- Excellent (30 - 30 cum laude): very good knowledge of the topics, very good ownership of language, very good analytical ability; the student is able to apply the theoretical knowledge brilliantly.
- Very good (27 - 29): good knowledge of the subject matter, remarkable command of language, good analytical ability; the student is able to apply the theoretical knowledge correctly.
- Good (24-26): good knowledge of the main topics, fair command of language; the student shows an adequate ability to apply theoretical knowledge.
- 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 properties of language and sufficient ability to apply theoretical knowledge.
- Sufficient (18-20): minimal knowledge of the main teaching topics and technical language, limited ability to apply theoretical knowledge adequately.
- Insufficient: the student does not possess an acceptable knowledge of the content of the various topics of the syllabus.

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