Aim
Aim of this course is to educate students about skills required for routine dental treatment of patients whose systemic condition presents significant health risk: patients with cardiovascular, metabolic, imunologic and hematlogic diseases, transplant recipients, patients on aticoagulation therapy, neurologic patients, psychiatric patients etc. Course focuses on specific medical conditions that require modification of routine dental procedures and presents introduction into "Special needs dentistry", independent dental specialty in USA and EU countries which is closely related to oral medicine, since both are focused on the interaction of oral and systemic health.
Main topics
Dental treatment of patients with head and neck irradiation
Dental treatment of patients on anti-coagulant therapy
Dental treatment of HIV patient
Bacterial endocarditis and dental procedures - AHA 2007 guidelines
Dental impants in patients with systemic and mucocutaneous autoimmune diseases
Dental treatment of patients with renal disease
Dental treatment of patients with solid organ transplant
Dental treatment of patients with endocrine and metabolic disease
Dental treatment of patients with neurologic and psychiatric disease
Dental treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies
Dental treatment of patients with bone marrow transplant
Hours in the curriculum
The course consists of 9 theoretical lectures and 6 seminars in the 7th semester
Assessment methods
After completion of the course students take written exam.
