Members and associates of the Department of Dental Medicine 2 teach at two study programmes: Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Dental Medicine and Undergraduate University Study of Dental Hygiene. Through courses offered at the Department, students acquire pre-clinical and clinical knowledge in the following areas of dental medicine: Dental Materials and Technology, Fixed Prostheses, RemovableProstheses, Gnathology, Dental Diseases, Cariesology, Orthodontics, Pedodontics - Paediatric and Preventive Dental Medicine, and Oral Hygiene. Certain courses of the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study of Dental Medicine continue through several academic years. Fixed Prostheses 1 is followed by the courses Fixed Prostheses 2 and 3, which continue in the following years of study. The same case is with the courses RemovableProstheses 1, 2, and 3, as well as Dental Diseases 1, 2 and 3. The course Paediatric and Preventive Dental Medicine 1 is followed by the course Paediatric and Preventive Dental Medicine 2.
The complexity of the current scientific cognitions requires adding up of the courses and combining the knowledge and skills acquired. The knowledge students acquire throughout a course includes theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary for diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation of the disease and the state of stomatognathic system. They are a prerequisite for a successful work of dentalpractitioners and dental technicians. The scope of educational work of the Department represents the basis for accomplishing everyday duties of dental practitioners in primary health care.
Students also acquire the cognition of the integration of basic medical researchand clinical research in dental medicine. The integration of the research and acquiring new notions are a prerequisite for a critical analysis and understanding of the scientific data. The use of the newest technologies and materials poses a challenge and raises the level of health protection for all age groups. The following scientific areas are closely studied by members of the Department of Dental Medicine 2:
- occlusion,
- clinical epidemiology,
- position and movement of Temporomandibular joints,
- mandibular movements,
- dysfunctions of stomatognathic system,
- oral soft- and hard- tissue diseases,
- epidemiology of dental caries,
- techniques of instrumentation, disinfection and filling of root canals,
- materials and aids for restorative dental procedures,
- materials and aids for caries prevention,
- endodontic filling materials and treatment,
- materials for fixed dental prostheses,
- materials for removable dental prostheses,
- dental trauma and stomatognathic system injury prevention,
- orthodontic anomalies, genesis, diagnostics, treatment,
- orthodontic materials and devices,
- Cephalometric face analysis, digital face analysis (Smile design),
- CAD / CAM technology and application,
- jaw and facial development, dentition and development, oral embryology,
- materials and types of tooth - implant connection.