Dental Sciences 4 - Oral Medicine

Introduction to oral medicine: general objectives.
Oral ulcers: traumatic ulcers, infectious ulcers, ulcers as expression of autoimmune diseases.
Spots: white spots (leukoplakia, verrucous proliferative leukoplakia, oral lichen planus); red spots (eritroplachia); dark spots (physiological hyperpigmentation, iatrogenic hyperpigmentation, nevi and melanotic spots, malignant melanoma).
New growths: traumatic fibroma, pyogenic granulomas, warts and condylomas.
Oral cancer.
Elderly related conditions: xerostomia, hyper-salivation, candidiasis, denture stomatitis.
Oral-facial pain: burning mouth syndrome, idiopathic persistent pain, atypical odontalgia.
Correlations between systemic diseases and pathologies of the oral mucosa.
Oral manifestations of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Oral Hygiene Techniques in the oncological patient:
- Oral hygiene techniques in the oncological patient
- Oral hygiene techniques in head-neck cancer patients
- The patient on bisphosphonate therapy
Oral Hygiene Techniques in hospitalized patients and special needs:
The module intends to provide the knowledge related to the elaboration of care plans and social dental education projects for the elderly patient in long-term care contexts.
The course provides the basic knowledge for a multidisciplinary approach to the bibliographic research of the material and the coherent reading of the epidemiological and demographic data, hints on the GRADE system for the drafting of a protocol of preventive dental care in RSA, the treatment of real cases in long-term hospitalization hospitalization and the disquisition on the main anamnestic, pathological and therapeutic needs for the frail patient.