DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY AND MEDICAL-SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
Master's Degree in School of Dentistry
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 5° Year

ODONTOIATRIA PEDIATRICA

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• general and specialistic pediatric
  

  Learning physiology, pathology, clinical and laboratory approach, therapy related to growing individuals, specific issues of preventive pediatrics, pediatric diseases from neonatal age through adolescence

• PEDODONZIA
  

  The educational goal is to provide students with a full understanding of the many diseases of the oral cavity that occur in children , the correct diagnostic and therapeutic procedures .

  At the end of the course students will know the correct psychological approach to the dental patient in childhood , concepts of embryology and growth of the stomatognathic in their implications with malformations of the jaw , dental abnormalities , malocclusions ; They will also have to learn how to diagnose and treat dental caries and its complications , the bad habits , the common stomatomucositi and disorders of the temporomandibular joints .

Detailed Course Content

• general and specialistic pediatric
  

  Neonatology

  · The healthy newborn

  · The newborn infant and newborn care

  · Low birth weight newborn

  · Post-term newborn

  · Birth defects

  · Birth trauma

  · Neonatal asphyxia

  · Neonatal jaundice

  · Neonatal seizures

  · Neonatal coagulopathies

  · Neonatal infections

  · Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

  · Intensive neonatal care

  Preventive Pediatrics

  · Pediatric primary care

  · Normal growth and development

  · Methods to evaluate growth. Bone age. Clinical evaluation of puberal maturation

  · Feeding: infant, toddler, child and adolescent.

  Breast feeding

  Milk formula

  Weaning

  · Neonatal screening

  · Carrier state screening

  · Vaccination

  · Domestic accidents

   

   

  General Pediatrics

  · Growth failure

  · Nutritional defects

  · Congenital cardiopathies

  · Infectious diseases

  Exanthematous diseases

  Viral diseases

  Visceral Leishmaniasis

  · Allergy

  · Asthma

  · Respiratory infections

  · Cystic fibrosis

  · Celiac disease

  · Gastroenteritis

  · Nephrotic syndrome

  · Glomerulonephritis

  · Primary immunodeficiencies

  · Metabolism diseases

  Galactosemia

  Phenylketonuria

  · Endocrine diseases

  Congenital hypothiroidism

  Diabetes

  Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

  Puberal disorders

  Hypopithuitarism

  · Fever of unknown origin

  · Mendelian diseases

  · Chromosomic diseases

  · Systemic inflammatory diesases

  Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

  Systemic Lupus Erithematosus

  Henoch Schönlein purpura

  Inflammatory bowel diseases

  Kawasaki disease

  Seizures and epilepsy

  Atopic dermatitis

  Pediatric Hematology

  · Normal hematology values trough childhood

  · Anemias

  Thalassemias

  Sickle Cell Disease

  Iron deficiency anemia

  G6PD

  · Splenomegalies

  · Lymph node disorders

  · Coagulopathies

  · Thrombocytopenias

  · Leukemias and lymphomas

  · Tumours in children

   

   

• PEDODONZIA
  

  Outline of Embryology and craniofacial growth. Development and morphology of the teeth and jaws. Period and order of tooth eruption Psychological approach to the dental patient in childhood. Nutrition and oral health. Examination of the mouth and related structures: history and physical examination. Imaging techniques - x-ray examinations. Dental caries prevention and conservative treatment of primary and permanent teeth. Dental abnormalities. Gingivitis, parodontal diseases. Oral hygiene techniques. Traumas and fractures and dental tissue and support. Cleft palate. Pediatric oral surgery. Oral tumors in children. Stomatomucositis and oral infections in children. Temporomandibular disorders in children and adolescents. Chronic diseases and oral cavity.

Textbook Information

• general and specialistic pediatric
  

  Bona – Miniero Pediatria Pratica – Edizioni Minerva Medica

  Bartolozzi – Pediatria- Masson

  Zuccotti – Giovannini – Manuale di Pediatria -Esculapio

  Pediatria Pratica di G.Bona e R.Miniero – Edizione Minerva Medica

   

• PEDODONZIA
  

  Angus C. Cameron, Richard P. Widmer. Manuale di Pedodonzia / Masson Editore, Milano
  Goran Koch, Sven Poulsen: Odontoiatria infantile - Un approccio clinico / Edi-Ermes Editore, Milano