This course contains clinical topics which, due to degree of difficulty and/or continuous competence ladder, belongs to the last year of study, as well as topics that will prepare the student for working life.
The aim of the course is for the student to acquire knowledge and practical/clinical skills that enable him/her to look after patient groups with special treatment needs and patients with major aesthetic treatment needs. The subject will provide knowledge about patients' dental health services and legal rights. Additionally, the subject will provide an overview of the dentist's labor market, opportunities and employment law, as well as shed light on development trends in the field in a future perspective.
The subject covers the topics:
Patients with special needs
o Oral health in rare diagnoses
o Risk patients and remediation
o Sleep medicine/treatment of sleep apnea
o Temporomandibular Dysfunction (TMD)
o Nutrition
Gerodontology
o Geriatrics - general aging, specific age-related diseases, medical risk patients
o Ethics - informed consent, patient rights, use of coercion
o Prevention - root caries, hyposalivation
o Adhesive dental restorations in the elderly
o Prosthetics in the elderly, repairs, stomatitis
o Collaboration with other health professions
o Oral and dental care in an institution and in home-based services
o Oral care in seriously ill and dying patients
Extensive oral rehabilitation
o Prosthetic repairs
o Immediate prostheses
o Combined prosthetics
o Bite rehabilitation
Health, ethics and aesthetics
o Dental treatment with ceramic materials
o Hatch closure and rebuilding of teeth using composite
o Use of orthodontic plastic splints and aesthetic movement of teeth
o Mucogingival surgery
o About patients' legal protection
Odontology in society
o Specially arranged dental health services (TOO - torture, victims of abuse and odontophobia)
o Forensic dentistry
Vocational preparation
o Options and labor market
o Practice administration
o Ethics in dental practice
o Legal framework in employment agreements
o Social benefits in the event of illness, childbirth etc.
The dentistry of the future
o Digital clinical aids
o Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The theoretical teaching is an interdisciplinary collaboration between different sections at the Department of Clinical Dentistry, Clinical Institute 1, the TAKO Center at Lovisenberg Hospital in Oslo, Norwegian Patient Injury Compensation (NPE) and the Norwegian Dental Association (NTF).
At the end of the course, the students will have the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge
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Skills
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General competence
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Seminars are compulsory
All teaching is mandatory, except for lectures. The student is responsible for reporting absences, and unexcused absences are not allowed.In addition to the attendance requirements, the academic requirements must be met, both in terms of the quality of the work and sufficient practice.
Torgils Lægreid
Siri Flagestad Kvalheim