Conservative Dentistry III

Medicina Dentária Conservadora III

Curse code:9548523

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:

Operative dentistry - Theoretical-practical classes:

1. Matrices systems and wedges.
2. Facial and dental esthetics.
3. Vital pulp therapy.
4. Clinical cases in multimedia showing restorations, the cementation of fiber posts, etc.
5. At home and in-office bleaching.
6. Resin composite indirect restorations (Inlays and onlays).
7. Adhesion – new trends.

Operative dentistry - Clinical practice:

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

Endodontics - Theoretical-practical classes:

Root canal retreatments.
Students should perform the complete endodontic retreatment of an acrylic block and of 1 multiradicular tooth in an acrylic block as minimum procedures: 1 acrylic block and 1 molar in an acrylic block (to be purchased by the student).

Endodontics - Clinical practice:

Pre-endodontic restorations, provisional restorations, endodontic treatment of multiradicular teeth.

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.
• Perdigão J (Ed. Lit.) (2016) Tooth whitening: An evidence-based perspective. Switzerland: Springer. ISBN: 978-3-319-38847-2.