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About Study Course

Department: Department of Conservative Dentistry and Oral Health
Credit points / ECTS:6 / 9
Course supervisor:Līga Kroniņa
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Dentistry
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Oral Medicine

Objective

To train theoretically and practically high-level new specialists to work with children at different ages, to provide knowledge about the principles of children's teeth and bite formation, oral diseases, their prevention and treatment options.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in embryology, dental anatomy, histology, oral disease prevention, pre-clinical training (operative dentistry), cariology, endodontics, periodontology.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

As the result of the study course learning, students will have knowledge of the development of children's teeth and occlusion, children's oral diseases, their prevention and treatment.

Skills

As the result of the study course acquisition, students will be able to establish contact with the child and its parents; to eliminate pain and dental anxiety; to treat caries, pulpitis and periodontitis in primary and young permanent teeth depending on the root development stage; to treat dental traumas and most common mucosal diseases in children.

Competence

Students will be able to reason and take a clinical decision on patients final diagnosis by interpreting and corelating findings in anamnesis, clinical and radiographic examinations or other diagnostic tests; to choose the best treatment intervention, based on patient's age, treatment needs and level of dental anxiety; to educate the patient and his/her parents about prevention and treatment of oral diseases; to evaluate treatment results and advice additional actions on improving oral health; to communicate with children, their parents / guardians.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Autumn semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Dentistry, SSNSFz8Master’sRequiredLīga Kroniņa, Jekaterīna Gudkina, Natālija Protasa, Ilona Viduskalne
Dentistry, ZF7Master’sRequiredIlona Viduskalne, Kristīne Kadiķe, Jeļena Grišakova, Jūlija Kalniņa, Beāte Bizņa, Inga Briede
Dentistry, SSNSF9Master’sRequiredIlona Viduskalne, Jekaterīna Gudkina, Guna Siliņa, Līga Kroniņa
Dentistry, SSNSF7Master’sRequiredIlona Viduskalne, Jekaterīna Gudkina, Līga Kroniņa
Dentistry, ZF9Master’sRequiredIlona Viduskalne, Elīna Ilze Kronberga, Kristīne Kadiķe, Jeļena Grišakova, Beāte Bizņa, Inga Briede
Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Dentistry, SSNSFz7Master’sRequiredIlona Viduskalne
Dentistry, ZF8Master’sRequiredLīga Kroniņa, Jeļena Grišakova, Kristīne Kadiķe, Jūlija Kalniņa, Inga Briede
Dentistry, SSNSFz9Master’sRequiredLīga Kroniņa, Natālija Protasa, Beāte Bizņa
Dentistry, SSNSF8Master’sRequiredLīga Kroniņa, Jekaterīna Gudkina, Guna Siliņa