Teaching code

4S000289

Credits

9

Coordinator

Roberto Burro

Language

Italian

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

: Teaching aims to critically educate the student about the knowledge of the profession of the Dental Hygienist, provide basic knowledge regarding the most common pathologies of the oral cavity, focusing in particular on the aspect of prevention. It provides basic knowledge about behaviour changes through learning and how these changes are stored. In addition, the basic oral hygiene knowledge is provided with the characteristics of the different home oral hygiene facilities and the correct ways of using them in order to be able to advise the tools and products most suitable for each patient. ORAL HYGIENE FUNDAMENTALS MODULE Training objectives: The course aims to critically educate the student about knowledge of the profession of the Dental Hygienist and his role within the dental team, the strategies that the dental hygienist can put in place for the promotion of health and the basic knowledge of oral cavity anatomy. The course also aims to provide the student with modalities and strategies for communicating with the patient. COMMUNITY DENTISTRY MODULE Training objectives: The course aims to provide the student with the basic knowledge regarding the most common pathologies of the oral cavity, focusing in particular on the aspect of prevention. The course aims to provide knowledge about the figure of the dental hygienist and his possible roles as promoter of oral health in different age groups in line with what is proposed by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. Expected learning outcomes include preventive concepts and strategies related to the aforementioned pathologies. LEARNING PSYCHOLOGY MODULE Training objective: Changes in behavior through learning and how these changes are stored. The various forms of learning. Intelligence and its measurement. The course will allow the student to obtain the necessary preparation for the deepening and use of The Psychology of Learning understood as an experimental discipline. Cognitive processes such as learning, memory, perception, attention, thought, motivation, emotion and communication will be contextualized in the general methodological system of cognitive sciences, allowing the student to find all the elements of comparison and integration with methodologies, theories and models, both from a historical and application perspective in the world of contemporary research. METHODS AND MATERIALS OF ORAL HYGIENE MODULE Training objectives: The aim of the Course is to learn the characteristics of home oral hygiene and the correct methods of use to be able to determine which tools and products are best suited to each patient in order to provide personalized indications to maintain good oral health. Also crucial is the knowledge of the injuries caused by the improper use of the available principals and the different methods of motivation of the patient.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No prior knowledge required

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Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade is determined by the weighted mean calculated from the results obtained in the individual modules.