Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

General Dentistry

• code 10470
• course 5
• term Semester 2
• type PR
• credits 12

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English

Head instructor

Dr. Juan BASILIO - jbasilio@uic.es

Office hours

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Contactar amb Dr.Basilio per sol.licitar visita : jbasilio@uic.es

The objective of this subject of the last year of the degree programme is to provide the student with a “clinical practicum” which will allow him or her to improve skills in both the diagnosis of the different oral pathologies studied during the degree programme, and the application of the different treatments.

Prior to enrolment, the prospective student must have passed the following fourth-year subjects:

Restorative Clinical Dentistry 1
Restorative Clinical Dentistry 2
Prosthodontics 3
Prosthodontics 4

To improve the clinical practice of the students in their performance of a proper anamnesis and clinical exploration of the patient, and in their use of the different complementary tests.

Students will be able to gather all the information in a clinical record in an organised manner, with knowledge of how to discern relevant information from information of lesser importance.

To help students acquire clinical practice skills for patients, whether special needs patients or not, whether adults and children, when treating the most common symptoms of the different specialist areas, so that students are qualified to provide comprehensive essential dental clinical care.

To train students in the treatment of dental emergencies and in the prescription of appropriate drugs. 

• 83 - Treating destructive processes and dento-alveolar trauma injuries via operations
• 84 - Undertaking endodontic treatment and applying procedures to preserve pulp vitality
• 85 - Undertaking conventional aesthetic procedures from a multidisciplinary perspective
• 86 - To treat both partial and full edentulism, including the biological design (specific design characteristics), dental preparation, obtaining record, clinical trials and adapting partial and full removable prostheses to patients, simple dental-supported bridges and simple prostheses on top of implants, both removable and fixed, including
• 87 - To write up prescriptions to measure for healthcare products such as «dental prostheses» and «orthodontic and dento-facial orthopaedic apparatus»
• 88 - To undertake non-surgical treatment for temporo-mandibular disorders and oro-facial pain
• 89 - To undertake bucco-dental treatment on young patients and recognise its characteristics and peculiarities
• 90 - To identify and correct oral habits that are susceptible to causing or exacerbating malocclusions
• 91 - To plan and determine the specific characteristics of the design, records, prescription, clinical trails, placement and clinical adjustment for fitting removable and fixed space-maintainers and interceptive orthodontic techniques as well as extractable active elements destined to reposition teeth or correct an overbite
• 92 - Pre-professional practicums, in a rotational dental clinic with a final evaluation of competences, which allow for the incorporation of professional values, healthcare communication competences, clinical reasoning and management, and critical judgement. This must also include clinical work by the students on patients of all ages and conditions, in a comprehensive manner and under suitable supervision.
• 10 - Knowing and being able to identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence in order to train students in the prevention, early detection of, care for and rehabilitation of the victims of this type of violence.
• 20 - Obtaining and creating a medical record containing all the relevant information.
• 21 - Knowing how to undertake a full dental exam, including the necessary X-ray and complementary exploratory tests, as well as obtaining suitable clinical references.
• 22 - Having the ability to make an initial diagnostic judgement and establish a reasonable diagnostic strategy, as well as being competent in recognising situations that require urgent dental treatment.
• 23 - Establishing a diagnosis, prognosis and suitable treatment planning for all the different clinical areas of Dentistry, being competent in terms of the diagnosis, prognosis and writing up the dental care plan for patients who require special care, including medically compromised patients (such as diabetics, those with hypertension, a depressed immune system or are anticoagulated, etc) and patients with disabilities.
• 24 - Recognising situations in which lives are at risk and knowing how to provide basic life-support.
• 25 - Being aware of and applying basic treatment for the most common dental pathology in patients of all ages. The treatment procedures must be based on the concept of minimally invasive surgery and an overall and comprehensive focus on dental treatment.
• 26 - Knowing how to plan and undertake multidisciplinary, sequential and comprehensive dental treatment of limited complexity for patients of all ages and conditions and for patients who require special care.
• 27 - Outlining and proposing suitable preventative measures for each clinical situation.
• 28 - Acquiring clinical experience under suitable supervision.
• 64 - Undertaking basic oral and dental pathology treatments for patients of all ages. The treatment procedures should be minimally invasive and based on a comprehensive and integrated approach to oral and dental treatment
• 65 - Diagnosing, planning and undertaking, at a general level, multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated treatment of limited complexity for patients of all ages and conditions and patients with special needs (diabetes, hypertension, oncological diseases, transplants, immune-depression, anti-clotting, etc.) or disabilities. Specifically the dentist should be competent in establishing a diagnosis, a prognosis and developing a suitable treatment plan, particularly in terms of orofacial pain, temporo-mandibular disorders, bruxism and other parafunctions; dental and periapical pathology; oral and dental trauma; periodontal and peri-implanted tissue pathologies; pathology of the mandibular bone, of soft oral tissue and annex glands; states of partial or total edentation and planning rehabilitation treatment via dento-muco supported prostheses, or dental impants, dental malpositions or malocculusions and other anatomical or functional alterations of the face or the stomatognathic system and their potential orthodontic, orthopaedic or surgical corrections
• 66 - Taking and interpreting x-rays and other image-based procedures that are important in dental practice
• 67 - Creating diagnostic models, setting them up and taking inter-occlusal registrations
• 68 - Determining and identifying the aesthetic requirements of patients and the possibility of resolving their concerns
• 69 - Identifying patients who require special care, recognising the characteristics and peculiarities of such cases
• 70 - Evaluating motor and sensory oral, mandibular and annex function
• 71 - Undertaking limited procedures for invasive diagnostic techniques using soft tissue (biopsies)
• 72 - Appropriate medical prescriptions, while being aware of their guidelines and warnings, systemic effects and repercussions on other organs
• 73 - Applying loco-regional anaesthetic techniques
• 74 - Preparing and isolating the operatory field
• 75 - Identifying, evaluating and attending to medical emergencies which may arise during clinical practice and apply cardiopulmonary recuscitation techniques; manage severe infections, including pharmaceutical prescriptions and simple surgical aspects
• 76 - Identifying and dealing with any dental emergencies
• 77 - Undertaking medical and surgical treatment for common diseases in soft oral tissue
• 78 - Undertaking simple surgical procedures: the extraction of temporarily and permanently erupted teeth, fractured or retained roots and the uncomplicated surgical extraction of non-erupted teeth and simple procedures for pre-prosthesic surgery
• 79 - Treating dento-alveolar trauma in temporary and permanent dentitions
• 80 - Treating the inflammatory processes of periodontal tissue both pharmacologically and surgically, including supra and subgingival techniques for periodontal instrumentation
• 81 - Evaluating and treating patients with caries or other dental non-carious pathologies and being able to use all the material required for restoring the shape, function and aesthetics of the tooth in patients of all ages
• 82 - Designing, preparing teeth, prescribing, recording, doing clinical tests, fitting and putting indirect restorations into service: incrustations, veneers or aesthetic laminate veneers and unitary crowns

• 5.01 - Integrate, organize and implement all the knowledge acquired during the degree to provide adequate and comprehensive dental care to the patient.
• 5.02 - Conduct a multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated dental treatment of the patient of any age or condition.
• 5.03 - Make the right treatment according to the individual needs of each patient and have to be objective and valid, suitable with current therapy, quality and congruent.
• 5.04 - Fulfill the praxis and the ethical professional code of.
• 5.08 - - Develop independent learning strategies, guided by a tutor, which represents an improvement to maintain current knowledge, skills and attitudes of professional skills
• 5.10 - Develop the skills of analysis, synthesis, planning and organization
• 5.11 - Develop the skills of oral and written communication
• 5.12 - Develop the capabilities of information management and teamwork
• 5.13 - Develop the critical argument skills and autonomous learning

  hours of integrated clinical practice on patients in the facilities of the University Dental Clinic.

  hours of seminars, in which the student will work on clinical cases and review treatment protocols.

Clinical practice monitored by the lecturer in charge.

Clinical seminars.

Presentation at clinical congresses and symposia for students.

Continuous assessment of the student will be carried out by the lecturers responsible, achieving a final mark made up of:

An average of the marks by all lecturers: 40%

Average mark in CUO-Soft: 40%

Clinical case presentation and treatments implemented: 20%

Poster presentations and communications at congresses may increase the final mark by 0.5, 1 or 1.5 points. The final mark of the student may be reduced by 1 point if no presentations/communications are made.

The clinical protocols for the treatments to be performed are posted on the Intranet, in the section

FORUM-CUO-MATERIALS-PROTOCOLOS CUO