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Public Health Care and Prevention in Dentistry I

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:01.08.2024 11:54:12
Study Course Information
Course Code:ZTMVK_063LQF level:Level 5
Credit Points:2.00ECTS:3.00
Branch of Science:Clinical Medicine; Public HealthTarget 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, tskatrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67455560
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)13Lecture Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Lectures26
Classes (count)4Class Length (academic hours)2Total Contact Hours of Classes8
Total Contact Hours34
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.TopicType of ImplementationNumberVenue
1Introduction 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.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
2Principles 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.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
3Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Policy for Oral Health. Tooth decay and erosion.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
4Prevention of dental trauma. Smoking and oral health.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
5Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
6Historical aspects of the prevention of dental diseases in Latvia.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
7The importance of dental plague in prevention of tooth caries and periodontal diseases. Demineralisation and remineralisation process.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
8Oral health assessment indices.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
9The role of fluorides in the prevention of dental caries. Types of fluoride prophylaxis-endogenous (systemic) and exogenous (local) prophylaxis. Local fluoride use.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
10Oral care products.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
11Dentifrices. Types and composition of toothpaste.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
12Saliva role in oral prophylaxis. Halitosis-bad breathLectures1.00E-Studies platform
13Sealants in dentistry. Their types and application technique.Lectures1.00E-Studies platform
14Effects of smoking on oral health. Smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. Smoking cessation program in dental practices.Classes1.00E-Studies platform
15Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines and Nutrition Policy for Oral Health. Tooth decay and erosion. Ability to educate dental patients and residents in healthy nutrition policies.Classes1.00E-Studies platform
16Ability to educate dental patients and population how to prevent dental trauma and how to act in case of a dental trauma.Classes1.00E-Studies platform
17Dental hygienist training models in the world and in Latvia. Dental hygienist profession standard. Test.Classes1.00E-Studies platform
Assessment
Unaided Work:
To prepare oral health promoting presentations, booklets, posters, videos. 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 is mandatory. Passed small tests during the semester. Presentations during the study course, worked out oral health promotion materials. Independent and individual work for the preparation of a literature review. Written exam at the end of the course. The final score comes from: 70% attendance at classes, solo work in classes, home preparation of presentations; 30% written exam in the form of an essay. The examination has been passed if 60% of complete and correct answers are provided to theoretical questions regarding the given study course.
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
1Paula 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.
2EU Manual of Dental Practice 2015 Edition 5.1. Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom.
3Gehrig, 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
4WHO, Guideline : Sugars Intake for Adults and Children, World Health Organization, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central
5Chestnutt I.G. Dental Public Health at a Glance. Wiley Blackwell, 1st Edition, 2016, 124 p.
6Burt and Eklund's dentistry, dental practice, and the community / St. Louis. Missouri : Elsevier : AAPHD, American Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2021
7Rokasgrāmata „Kā palīdzēt pacientiem atmest smēķēšanu” LR Veselības ministrija, 2018.
8E.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.
9 Mutes veselības pētījums skolēniem Latvijā 2022./2023.m.g.
Additional Reading
1Edwina A. M. Kidd. Essentials of Dental Caries: The Disease and Its Management (Kidd, Essentials of Dental Caries). Oxford University Press, 2016.
2Toolkit for delivering the 5A’s and 5R’s brief tobacco interventions in primary care, WHO, 2014.
3Toolkit for oral health professionals to deliver brief tobacco intervention, WHO, 2017.
4Egita Senakola - Publikācijas Doctus 2018. - 2020.
Other Information Sources
1Cochrane Library, Science Direct, SAGE, ProQuest, OVID, Wiley online library, EBSCO, Dyna Med.
2Oral Health - World Health Organization (WHO), 2024.
3World Oral Health Day, FDI.