Learning objectives
The student is expected to acquire the means to be able to formulate the diagnosis and define treatment for the most common children’s odontostomatological diseases, offering a broad spectrum of specialist healthcare, appropriate and efficacious in the dental care of children, adolescents and patients with associated diseases. Particular emphasis will be placed on prevention techniques, clinical assessment and treatment of traumas.
Prerequisites
Students must have passed all the examinations of the previous years
Course unit content
<br /> The normal neonate, clinical examination and physiological phenomena<br /> Lactation<br /> Nutrition in the first year of life<br /> Neonatal infections<br /> Neonatal Respiratory Diseases (RDS)<br /> Neurological Pathology in pre-term infants <br /> Pediatric pulmonary semiotics<br /> Pneumonia and bronchiolitis<br /> Asthma<br /> Cystic Fibrosis<br /> Acute and chronic nasal-pharyngeal diseases<br /> Diagnosis and treatment of juvenile onset DM<br /> Pathophysiology and clinics of the main congenital cardiopathies<br /> Cardiomyopathies<br /> The main autosomic and gonosomic chromosomopathies<br /> Acute and chronic enteritis and various types of malabsorption<br /> Glomerulonephritis and nephrosis<br /> Rheumatic Diseases<br /> Leucomas and the main infant solid tumours<br /> Urinary tract infections<br /> Physiological and pathological growth (primary and secondary growth delays, growth hormone deficit)<br /> Epilepsy<br /> Patients with neurological damage<br /> Convulsions in the child<br /> Thyroid diseases<br /> The main systemic diseases that have repercussions on the oral cavity and on dentition/teeth<br /> Use of painkillers/antibiotics during childhood<br />
Full programme
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Bibliography
1) R.E. Behrman, R.M.Kliegman, A.M. Arvin, W.E.Nelson. TRATTATO DI PEDIATRIA. Ed. Mine rva Medica. <br />
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2) G. Bartolozzi, G. Maurizio. PEDIATRIA. PRINCIPI E PRATICA PEDIATRICA. Ed. Masson <br />
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3) G.L.de'Angelis. L'ENDOSCOPIA DIGESTIVA IN ETA' PEDIATRICA E GIOVANILE. Ed. Mediche Scientifiche Internazionali - Roma.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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