Conservative Dentistry I

Medicina Dentária Conservadora I

Curse code:9548431

Ana Cristina da Natividade Tavares Mano Azul

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

Theoretical part:

• The student should acquire theoretical knowledge allowing sufficient clinical autonomy in Operative Dentistry and Endodontics at different levels: Prevention, diagnosis and therapeutical option.

Clinical practice:

• The student should obtain autonomy in his capacity to diagnose and to make the best treatment choice
• The student should be able to select and apply the adequate complementary diagnosis exams.
• The student should be able to manipulate all the equipments necessary to the patient treatment.
• The student should be able to select the instruments necessary for all treatments in Conservative Dentistry.
• The student should know the phyisico-chemical properties and manipulation instructions of all materials to be used.

Syllabus:

Lectures

1. Diagnosis in Conservative Dentistry
2. Treatment planning in Conservative Dentistry
3. Patient treatment in typical clinical situations: amalgam restorations, direct resin composite restorations
4. Clinical concepts of adhesion to dental structure
5. Operative Dentistry and the pulp-dentin organ
6. Restorations in anterior and posterior teeth
7. Class V restorations
8. Indirect restorations in composite resin
9. Local and systemic therapeutics
10. Endodontic emergencies
11. Restoration of teeth with endodontic treatment. Intra-radicular posts
12. Apex locators. Types and use technique
13. Complications and accidents in Endodontics
14. Rotary instrumentation of root canals
15. Root canal obturation. Alternative techniques

Treatment plans, provisional, amalgam restorationsdirect and indirect resin composite restorations, placement of intraradicular posts. Pre-endodontic restorations, provisional restorations, endodontic treatment of monoradicular teeth (including upper 1st premolars).

Suggested Bibliography:

• Ole Fejerskov, Bente Nyvad, Edwina Kidd (eds) (2015) Dental Caries - The Disease and its Clinical Management, 3rd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-93582-8
• Hilton TJ, Ferracane JL, Broome JC (eds) (2013) Summitt’s Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry: A Contemporary Approach, 4th ed, Hanover Park: Quintessence. ISBN: 978-0-86715-528-0
• Anusavice KJ, Shen C, Rawls HR (eds ) (2013) Phillips´s Science of Dental Materials, 12th ed., St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier Saunders. ISBN: 978-1-4377-2418-9
• Hargreaves KM, Cohen S (eds) (2011) Cohen´s Pathways of the Pulp – Expert Consult, 10th ed., Mosby. ISBN: 978-0-323-06489-7
• Mahmoud Torabinejad, Ashraf Fouad, Richard E. Walton (2015, i.e. 2014) Endodontics: Principles and practice, 5th ed., St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier. ISBN: 978-1-4557-5410-6