Conservative Dentistry I1

Medicina Dentária Conservadora I

Course 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/her 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 physico-chemical properties and manipulation instructions of all materials to be used.
Syllabus:

OPERATIVE DENTISTRY

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. Indirect restorations in composite resin.
Clinical practice

Treatment plans, provisional, amalgam restorations, direct and indirect resin composite restorations, placement of intraradicular posts. 

 

ENDODONTICS

Lectures

  1. Local and systemic therapeutics.
  2. Endodontic emergencies.
  3. Restoration of teeth with endodontic treatment. Intra-radicular posts.
  4. Apex locators. Types and technique.
  5. Complications and accidents in Endodontics.
  6. Rotary instrumentation of root canals.
  7. Root canal obturation. Thermoplastic techniques.
Clinical practice

Pre-endodontic restorations, provisional restorations, endodontic treatment of monoradicular teeth (including upper 1st premolars).

Suggested Bibliography:
  • Fejerskov O, Nyvad B, Kidd E (Eds.) (2015) Dental caries - The disease and its clinical management. 3rd ed., Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-93582-8.
  • Hargreaves KM & Berman L (Eds.) (2016) Cohen´s pathways of the pulp – Expert consult. 11th ed., Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-323-09635-5.
  • 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.
  • Hirata R (2017) Shortcuts in Esthetic Dentistry. Quintessence Publishing. ISBN: 978-85-7889-111-4.
  • Torabinejad M, Fouad A, Walton RE (2014) Endodontics: Principles and practice. 5th ed., Elsevier. ISBN: 978-1-4557-5410-6.