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Oral Health
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:27.03.2023 09:05:00
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | ZTMVK_062 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Oral Medicine | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| 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) | 10 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 20 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 15 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 35 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Biology, microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry, anatomy, histology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To raise awareness of possibilities for public dental care, to create positive, professional attitude to promotion of general and oral health and to raise awareness of planning and development of different oral health promotion and education programmes for different 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. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 5 | Smoking and oral health. Smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarettes. Role of the dental team in smoking cessation. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 6 | Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 7 | Key aspects of the prevention of dental diseases. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 8 | Maintaining and promoting oral health for patients during cancer therapy. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 9 | Current oral health situation in Latvia and around the the world. International documents. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 10 | Promoting oral health in pregnant women, young parents and children, adolescents, elderly. | Lectures | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 11 | Effects of smoking on oral health. Smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. Smoking cessation program in dental practices. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 12 | Nutrition, dietary guidelines and nutrition policies relating to oral health. Dental caries and erosions. Education of dental patients in healthy nutrition policy. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 13 | 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 | |||||
| 14 | Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. Dental hygienist profession standard. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| 15 | Promoting oral health in pregnant women, young parents and children, adolescents, elderly. | Classes | 1.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students prepare a review of the assigned readings to demonstrate their theoretical knowledge during seminars (preparing presentations). Fill in the study course evaluation questionnaire. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance of lectures and seminars. Passed small tests during the semester. Presentations during the study course. Written exam at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will include understanding of the principles of primary health care, common risk factor approach, systems for Oral healthcare in Latvia and abroad. Understanding of principles, approaches for oral health promotion and education, role of the dental team in oral and health promotion for patients in different age groups. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon completion of the course the students will be able to evaluate and use into their practical work some basic principles of health promotion and education. Will be able at first to understand and suggest preventive programmes and strategies opposite to treatment regimen in dentistry. Will be able to evaluate patients' preventive needs - eating habits, dental hygiene skills, give smoking cessation advices, intervention (5A`s), educate patients how to prevent dental trauma and act in case of trauma. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Upon completion of the course the students will have ability to educate patients about oral health care for population in different age groups. Will have ability to develop and take part in the process of implementation of different oral health promotion programmes for different age groups. To evaluate experiences of other countries in oral health education and smoking cessation programmes. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nathe, Christine Nielsen Dental public health & research : contemporary practice for the dental hygienist / Boston : Pearson, 2017. | ||||||||
| 2 | Chestnutt I.G. Dental Public Health at a Glance. Wiley Blackwell, 1st Edition, 2016, 124 p. | ||||||||
| 3 | Burt and Eklund's dentistry, dental practice, and the community / St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier : AAPHD, American Association of Public Health Dentistry, [2021] | ||||||||
| 4 | E.Senakola, I.Maldupa, S.Uribe, M.Ņizamovs. Mutes veselības pētījums skolēniem Latvijā 2015./2016. mācību gads. 1-56.lpp. | ||||||||
| 5 | Rokasgrāmata „Kā palīdzēt pacientiem atmest smēķēšanu” LR Veselības ministrija, 2018. | ||||||||
| 6 | Liran Levin, Yehuda Zadik. Education on and prevention of dental trauma: it’s time to act! Dental Traumatology 2012; 28: 49–54. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | E.Senakola, A.Brinkmane, L.Kroniņa. Mutes dobuma veselība pirmsskolas vecuma bērniem Latvijā. Doctus, 2018, Nr.9, 35.-38.lpp. | ||||||||
| 2 | Egita Senakola - Publikācijas Doctus | ||||||||
| 3 | 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. | ||||||||
| 4 | EU Manual of Dental Practice 2015 Edition 5.1. Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. | ||||||||
| 5 | Toolkit for oral health professionals to deliver brief tobacco intervention, WHO, 2017. | ||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||
| 4 | Veselības ministrija. Es par veselību.lv | ||||||||
