Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Interdisciplinary I
Interdisciplinary I
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15331
1
Annual
OB
Main language of instruction: English
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish
Teaching staff
vanessaruiz@uic.es
Student support will be provided through in-person tutorials arranged in advance with the teaching staff. It may also be provided via institutional email and the channels available on the university’s virtual learning platform.
Tutorials will be intended to address questions about the course content, provide guidance on the preparation and presentation of clinical cases, review interdisciplinary treatment planning, and provide feedback on students’ academic progress.
Introduction
The Interdisciplinary I course introduces students to the comprehensive management of periodontal patients from a multidisciplinary perspective. Periodontal diseases are closely related to other areas of dentistry; therefore, their diagnosis and treatment require an understanding of the periodontal implications of restorative, endodontic, orthodontic, prosthodontic, surgical, and implant procedures.
Through seminars, literature reviews, and the presentation and discussion of clinical cases, students will learn to identify situations requiring coordinated treatment, establish therapeutic priorities, and design a logical and safe treatment sequence centred on the patient’s needs.
As this is a first-year course, particular emphasis will be placed on acquiring the foundations of interdisciplinary diagnosis, communication among professionals, and the appropriate integration of periodontal treatment into the overall treatment plan.
Pre-course requirements
To undertake this course, students must:
- Hold a university degree in Dentistry or an equivalent qualification granting access to the Master’s programme.
- Understand the fundamentals of anatomy, physiology, oral pathology, and oral medicine.
- Have basic knowledge of periodontology, restorative dentistry, endodontics, orthodontics, prosthodontics, oral surgery, and implant dentistry.
- Be able to complete a comprehensive medical and dental history and perform a comprehensive dental examination.
- Be able to interpret basic diagnostic tests and radiographic examinations.
- Understand the fundamental principles of diagnosis and dental treatment planning.
- Understand the basic principles of evidence-based clinical practice.
Objectives
- Understand the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of periodontal patients.
- Identify the relationship between periodontology and other dental specialties.
- Integrate periodontal, dental, functional, and aesthetic findings into the patient’s overall diagnosis.
- Recognise clinical situations requiring the involvement of different specialists.
- Establish shared therapeutic objectives and a coordinated treatment sequence.
- Understand the periodontal implications of restorative, endodontic, orthodontic, prosthodontic, surgical, and implant treatments.
- Develop the ability to present, analyse, and discuss interdisciplinary clinical cases.
- Apply the principles of evidence-based dentistry to decision-making.
- Improve communication with patients and the different professionals involved in their treatment.
- Foster a critical, ethical, and patient-centred approach.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CN05 - Demonstrate broad and detailed knowledge, as well as critical understanding, of some of the most relevant current issues, topics and specialties in relation to the area of Periodontics and Implants, the scientific field or the professional field.
- CP01 - Apply a correct diagnosis and treatment plan in the periodontal patient scientifically supported by current literature in periodontics and implants.
- CP05 - Fully treat those patients in need of periodontal/surgical, orthodontic, and/or prosthodontic treatment, achieving optimal execution of the case.
- CP06 - Apply advanced periodontal treatments appropriately to any patient, respecting the fundamental rights of equality between men and women, and the promotion of human rights and the values of a culture of peace and democratic values; using language that avoids androcentrism and stereotypes.
- HB03 - Argue a correct treatment plan referenced in the scientific literature through the presentation of clinical cases of patients treated at the University Dental Clinic.
- HB04 - Analyze, interpret and critically evaluate complex information, theories and concepts in order to put them into practice.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- - Interdisciplinary - CN05, HB03, HB04, CP01, CP05, CP06 - 1. Recognize and apply the benefits that orthodontic treatment can bring to a periodontal patient and vice versa. 2. Plan and comprehensively treat those patients in need of periodontal/surgical and orthodontic treatment, achieving optimal diagnosis and execution of the case. 3. Recognize the biological interrelationship between the specialties of endodontics, orthodontics, prosthodontics and periodontics. 4. Describe the main communication routes between the pulp tissue and the periodontium. 5. Identify the periodontal manifestations that can develop endodontic diseases, and the endodontic manifestations that can develop periodontal diseases. 6. Evaluate and develop interdisciplinary therapeutic strategies that reveal a correct interpretation of endoperiodontal pathology. 7. Identify different anatomical and rehabilitative situations that allow correct planning of a case from the selection of the implant to the type of implant rehabilitation. 8. Design the planning of a case through guided surgery and construct guided radiological and surgical splints, as well as the provisional prosthesis itself on implants. 9. Integrate a periodontal and peri-implant maintenance protocol into your clinical practice and analyze different prosthetic complications for their correct treatment.
Syllabus
1. Fundamentals of interdisciplinary treatment
- Concept of interdisciplinary dentistry.
- Comprehensive patient assessment.
- Overall diagnosis and prioritisation of problems.
- Establishment of therapeutic priorities and objectives.
- Sequencing of the different phases of treatment.
- Communication and coordination among specialists.
- Comprehensive medical and dental history and dental examination.
- Integration of periodontal, dental, functional, and aesthetic assessments.
- Interpretation of radiographic examinations and other diagnostic records.
- Periodontal, tooth-level, and overall prognosis.
- Local, systemic, and behavioural factors affecting treatment.
- Decision-making regarding tooth retention or extraction.
- Influence of restorations on periodontal health.
- Marginal adaptation, contours, and contact points.
- Caries and cervical lesions in periodontal patients.
- Restorative margins and supracrestal tissues.
- Periodontal considerations before restorative treatment.
- Crown lengthening: principles and indications.
- Relationship between pulpal and periodontal tissues.
- Differential diagnosis of endodontic-periodontal lesions.
- Classification and prognosis.
- Sequencing of endodontic and periodontal treatment.
- Importance of periodontal assessment in endodontically treated teeth.
- Periodontal assessment before orthodontic treatment.
- Tooth movement in patients with a healthy or reduced periodontium.
- Control of inflammation during treatment.
- Pathological tooth migration.
- Basic indications for orthodontic treatment in periodontal patients.
- Periodontal-orthodontic treatment sequencing and follow-up.
- Periodontal assessment of abutment teeth.
- Prosthetic design and periodontal health.
- Prognosis of strategically important teeth.
- Provisional prostheses and tissue conditioning.
- Periodontal considerations in fixed and removable prosthodontics.
- Periodontal maintenance of rehabilitated patients.
- Assessment of teeth with a compromised prognosis.
- Initial criteria for tooth retention or replacement.
- Periodontal considerations before implant placement.
- Basic assessment of hard and soft tissues.
- Importance of three-dimensional implant positioning.
- Prevention of biological complications.
- Collection and organisation of clinical documentation.
- Preparation of a problem list.
- Diagnosis and prognosis.
- Formulation of therapeutic objectives.
- Design and sequencing of the treatment plan.
- Discussion of therapeutic alternatives.
- Justification of decisions based on scientific evidence.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
- Lectures
- Case method for the analysis and resolution of clinical cases
- Autonomous work
The course is delivered in person using an active learning methodology based on the integration of knowledge and the resolution of clinical problems.
Learning activities include:
- Theoretical seminars delivered by teaching staff from different areas of dentistry.
- Presentation and discussion of interdisciplinary clinical cases.
- Diagnostic and treatment-planning sessions.
- Critical review of the scientific literature.
- Case-based learning and problem-solving.
- Group discussion of treatment alternatives and sequences.
- Development of interdisciplinary treatment plans.
- Individual or group tutorials and feedback from the teaching staff.
Student participation will be essential for developing clinical reasoning, argumentation skills, and teamwork.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
- Continuous assessment
- Theoretical exam
Bibliography and resources
Core bibliography
- Lindhe J, Lang NP. Clinical Periodontology and Implant Dentistry. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Newman MG, Takei HH, Klokkevold PR, Carranza FA. Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology. Elsevier.
- Cohen M. Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning: Principles, Design, Implementation. Quintessence.
- Rose LF, Mealey BL, Genco RJ, Cohen DW. Periodontics: Medicine, Surgery, and Implants. Elsevier.
- Papapanou PN, Sanz M, Buduneli N, et al. Periodontitis: Consensus report of Workgroup 2 of the 2017 World Workshop. Journal of Clinical Periodontology. 2018;45(Suppl. 20):S162–S170.
- Tonetti MS, Greenwell H, Kornman KS. Staging and grading of periodontitis: Framework and proposal of a new classification and case definition. Journal of Periodontology. 2018;89(Suppl. 1):S159–S172.
- Scientific articles selected by the teaching staff.
- Clinical guidelines and consensus documents from the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP).
- Photographic and radiographic documentation of clinical cases.
- Periodontal charts, models, scans, and other diagnostic records.
- Teaching materials available on the university’s virtual learning platform.