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Public Health Care and Prevention in Dentistry I
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:27.03.2023 09:15:02
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | ZTMVK_063 | LQF level: | Level 5 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Public Health | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Egita Senakola | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Conservative Dentistry and Oral Health | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 20 Dzirciema Street, tsk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67455560 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 13 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 26 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 34 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Biology, microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy, histology, dental anatomy. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To raise awareness of possibilities for the public dental care. To create a positive, professional attitude to promation of general and oral health. To raise awareness of planning and development of different oral health promotion and education programmes in regions and cities for different population age groups. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to Public Health Care - Historical Overview, Definition. The concept of primary oral health care. Strategies to control mouth disease (common risk approach). Oral health situation in Latvia and world. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 2 | Principles of oral health promotion. The Concept of Health and the Definition, Principles and Activities of Health Promotion (WHO 1986, Ottawa Charter). Education programs on oral health promotion in Latvia. Oral health care models in EU and in the world. Model of Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 3 | Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Policy for Oral Health. Tooth decay and erosion. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 4 | Prevention of dental trauma. Smoking and oral health. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Historical aspects of the prevention of dental diseases in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 7 | The importance of dental plague in prevention of tooth caries and periodontal diseases. Demineralisation and remineralisation process. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 8 | Oral health assessment indices. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 9 | The role of fluorides in the prevention of dental caries. Types of fluoride prophylaxis-endogenous (systemic) and exogenous (local) prophylaxis. Local fluoride use. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 10 | Oral care products. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 11 | Dentifrices. Types and composition of toothpaste. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 12 | Saliva role in oral prophylaxis. Halitosis-bad breath | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 13 | Sealants in dentistry. Their types and application technique. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 14 | Effects of smoking on oral health. Smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. Smoking cessation program in dental practices. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 15 | Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Policy for Oral Health. Tooth decay and erosion. Ability to educate dental patients and residents in healthy nutrition policies. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 16 | Ability to educate dental patients and population how to prevent dental trauma and how to act in case of a dental trauma. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 17 | Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. Dental hygienist profession standard. Test. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To prepare oral health promoting presentations, booklets, posters. To educate dental patients (in all age groups). To read evidence based scientific literature. Active participation in lectures and classes. Completion of the course evaluation questionnaire. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance of lectures and seminars. Active participation during the seminars with presentations. Written test with analysis of questions about the lectures and seminars. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | At the end of the course the student will have knowledge primary health and dental care approach, society and oral health (common ask factor approach), systems for Oral Health care in Latvia, principles, approaches of oral health promotion and education, principles of epidemiology in dentistry, role of the dental team in oral and health promotion. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To evaluate basic principles of health promotion and education, to understand and be able to suggest preventive programmes and strategies opposite to treatment regimen in dentistry, to develop critical attitude to evaluation of a dentist's own work, to assess necessities of an individual preventive and dental care agreeing them with needs of all society. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To evaluate basic principles of health promotion and education. Ability to educate dental patients (in all age groups) and to order them preventive care on a primary oral health care level. Ability to take part in the process of planning, working out and introducing different oral health promoting programmes in different age groups. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Paula Moynihan, Yuka Makino, Poul Erik Petersen,| Hiroshi Ogawa. Implications of WHO Guideline on Sugars for dental health professionals. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2018;46:1–7. | ||||||||
| 2 | EU Manual of Dental Practice 2015 Edition 5.1. Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. | ||||||||
| 3 | Gehrig, Jill S.. Patient Assessment Tutorials: a Step-By-Step Guide for the Dental Hygienist : A Step-By-Step Guide for the Dental Hygienist, Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central | ||||||||
| 4 | WHO, Guideline : Sugars Intake for Adults and Children, World Health Organization, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central | ||||||||
| 5 | Chestnutt I.G. Dental Public Health at a Glance. Wiley Blackwell, 1st Edition, 2016, 124 p. | ||||||||
| 6 | Burt and Eklund's dentistry, dental practice, and the community / St. Louis. Missouri : Elsevier : AAPHD, American Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2021 | ||||||||
| 7 | E.Senakola, I.Maldupa, S.Uribe, M.Ņizamovs. Mutes veselības pētījums skolēniem Latvijā 2015./2016. mācību gads. ISBN (pdf) 978-9934-514-36-4, 1-56.lpp. | ||||||||
| 8 | Rokasgrāmata „Kā palīdzēt pacientiem atmest smēķēšanu” LR Veselības ministrija, 2018. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Edwina A. M. Kidd. Essentials of Dental Caries: The Disease and Its Management (Kidd, Essentials of Dental Caries). Oxford University Press, 2016. | ||||||||
| 2 | Toolkit for delivering the 5A’s and 5R’s brief tobacco interventions in primary care, WHO, 2014. | ||||||||
| 3 | Toolkit for oral health professionals to deliver brief tobacco intervention, WHO, 2017. | ||||||||
| 4 | Egita Senakola - Publikācijas Doctus | ||||||||
| 5 | Liran Levin, Yehuda Zadik. Education on and prevention of dental trauma: it’s time to act! Dental Traumatology 2012; 28: 49–54. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Cochrane Library, Science Direct, SAGE, ProQuest, OVID, Wiley online library, EBSCO, Dyna Med. | ||||||||
| 2 | Oral Health - World Health Organization (WHO) | ||||||||
| 3 | World Oral Health Day, FDI. | ||||||||
