CHILDHOOD PATHOLOGY
cod. 16431

Academic year 2012/13
5° year of course - First semester
Professor responsible for the course unit
PIZZI Silvia
integrated course unit
8 credits
hub:
course unit
in - - -

Course unit structured in the following modules:

Learning objectives

The student must acquire the means to make the diagnosis and treatment of the most common diseases of childhood dentistry, making health care specialist wide-ranging, adequate and effective in dental care for children, adolescents and in patients in whom are present associated pathologies. A special emphasis on preventive techniques, clinical evaluation of ispasie and treatment of trauma.

Prerequisites

- - -

Course unit content

Examination of the oral cavity
Eruption of teeth: local factors, systemic and congenital affecting the process
Acquired disorders and development of teeth and oral structures
Dental caries in children and adolescents:
§ risk factors,
§ early childhood caries
§ the oral hygiene
§ Nutrition
§ the fluoride
§ the sealing of pits and fissures
§ conservative and endodontic treatment in primary dentition and permanent teeth in young
The dental trauma
Children with disabilities and diseases to dentistry
Neglect and maltreatment of the child
§ The normal infant, clinical examination and physiological phenomena
§ Breastfeeding
§ The power supply in the first year of life
§ Neonatal infections
§ Respiratory Disease in the newborn (RDS)
§ Pathology Neurology of pre-term
§ Semeiotics pediatric pulmonary
§ Pneumonia and bronchiolitis
§ Asthma
§ Cystic Fibrosis
§ Pathology naso-pharyngeal acute and chronic
§ Diagnosis and treatment of DM onset in childhood
§ Pathophysiology and clinical in major congenital heart disease
§ Cardiomyopathies
§ Main autosomal chromosome abnormalities and gonosomiche
§ Enteritis acute, chronic malabsorption and various
§ Glomerulonephritis and nephrosis
§ Rheumatic Disease
§ leucomas and major childhood solid tumors
§ Urinary Tract Infections
§ Growth physiology and pathology (delays augmentative primary and secondary growth hormone deficiency)
§ Epilepsy
§ The patient with neurological damage
§ The convulsions in children
§ Thyroid Disease
§ Main systemic diseases that affect the oral cavity and dentition / tooth
§ Use of painkillers / antibiotics in children

Full programme

- - -

Bibliography

Polimeni, Antonella - Odontoiatria pediatrica. Elsevier srl Editore 2012

Teaching methods

Lectures using slides and movies of interventions, practical and clinical discussion of scientific papers, discussion of clinical cases

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

Lectures using slides and movies of interventions, practical and clinical discussion of scientific papers, discussion of clinical cases