Ensuring high quality and reliable dental care in accordance with existing guidelines and mentoring advice. Introducing students to the possibilities and consulting them in a timely manner, all with the aim of patient well-being.
A. POLYCLINIC CONSULTATION AND SPECIALISED HEALTH CARE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
- Children’s and preventive dental medicine (paedodontics):
- taking medical history and clinical check-up of preschool and school children,
- systematic dental check-ups of preschool and school children, determining DMF, SiC index and CAST,
- conducting treatment plan for preschool and school children,
- applying procedures to control children’s behaviour in the paedodontics practice,
- caries treatment and fillings for preschool and school children,
- use of topical and infiltration anaesthesia,
- extraction of deciduous teeth,
- medical history, check-up and diagnosis of dentofacial injuries in preschool and school children,
- emergency treatments for simple and complex injuries of deciduous and first permanent teeth,
- learning about principles of work procedures for children with special needs and children with endangered health,
- preventive fillings and sealing of fissure and pit on first permanent teeth,
- different forms of topical application of florid (solution, gel, varnish, application in spoon with sponge etc.),
- conducting health education (instructions on diets and oral hygiene),
- diagnose malocclusion.
- a) Endodontia and restorative dental medicine
b) Periodontics:
- diagnostics and therapy for aggressive forms of periodontal diseases,
- planning periodontal therapy,
- conducting assisted periodontal therapy,
- assisting at periodontal surgical procedures,
- assisting at implant surgical procedures.
c) Oral medicine:
- taking medical history and clinical check-up of patient,
- diagnostics and therapy of oral diseases,
- diagnostics and therapy of ulcerated lesions,
- diagnostics and therapy of vesiculobullous disease of oral mucosa,
- diagnostics and therapy of white and red lesions of oral mucosa,
- diagnostics and therapy of xerostomia.
- Dental prosthetics:
- medical history and clinical check-up,
- indication for different replacements (dental prosthetics),
- getting familiar with clinical aspects of biological, physiological and professional foundations for dental prosthetics,
- taking anatomic and functional impressions and applying other clinical procedures when making complete and partial dentures,
- participating in making acrylic and veneer crown,
- impressions and making custom post and core of teeth and crowns,
- familiarising with clinical phases of making dental bridge,
- familiarising with laboratory phases of making crowns, bridges and prosthetics,
- familiarising with laboratory phases of making prosthetics with metal post and core,
- metal-ceramic and completely ceramic replacements,
- participating in planning and making bridge constructions,
- combined procedures, as well as diagnostics and therapy of dysfunctional disorders of dental system.
4. Oral surgery
- medical history and clinical check-up of patient,
- diagnosis of injuries, inflammations and tumours in the maxillofacial region,
- using local and conduction infiltration anaesthesia,
- learning how to use general anaesthesia (narcosis) for oral-surgical procedures,
- extractions of teeth and alveotomy,
- treating odontogenic abscess,
- participating in care taking of emergency cases with fractures of alveoli and the jaw as a whole,
- learning about emergencies and therapy procedures that are applied to solve them (e.g. anaphylactic shock, cardiac rhythm disturbances etc.),
- surgical treatment of abscess in cervicofacial region.
B. PRIMARY HEALTH CARE OF DENTAL MEDICINE
The purpose of an internship in a facility of primary health protection is to get acquainted and actively participate in the following aspects of primary health protection:
- epidemiological analysis of prevalence of tooth decay and periodontal disease; assessment of necessary treatment,
- epidemiological analysis of dental and oral health in preschool and school children,
- familiarising with methods and forms of cooperation through polyclinic consultation on dental health protection,
- methods and forms of cooperation with other health protection institutions (family medicine, school medicine etc.),
- types of health documentation and how to maintain it,
- familiarising with forms of primary preventive measures for caries and periodontal disease prevention,
- conducting caries prevention with fluoride preparations,
- participating in the work of the counselling centre for pregnant women and newborns (preventive measures and systematic check-ups of mouth and teeth; advice on nutrition and oral hygiene),
- conducting health education in schools with the purpose to prevent dental and oral diseases (lectures, short films, pamphlets, posters),
- treating caries and diseases of dental pulp,
- removing subgingival and supragingival dental calculus (tartar),
- patient check-up for dental prosthetics, planning and conducting treatment,
- clinical phases of making complete and partial dentures,
- giving instructions on wearing dentures and oral hygiene,
participating in laboratory work for dental prosthetics and learning about phases of making crowns, bridges and dentures.
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