Preventive Sciences (Diagnostic imaging, Forensic Sciences, Nursing, Food and Diet)

- Introduction to radiology, basic opt, endo-oral
- Dental radiology seen by a hygienist: documenting a case
- How and what to treat based on radiological evidence
- Anatomy of the OPT: anatomical landmarks and differences over time
- Dental anatomy: the radiological bases and pathological alterations
- Pediatric radiology
- Radiological evolution in childhood and alterations of the rash
- Differential diagnoses granuloma/abscess/cystic lesions
- Periodontal bone defects
- Reading e.o, bw, interactive lesson in groups
- reading exercises of the opt
- Benign and malignant oral neoplasms
- Oral cavity correlations with systemic diseases
- Discussion of periodontal cases, radiological recognition

- Legal Medicine, general principles
- Legal framework of the profession; abusive practice
- Introduction to criminal and civil law. The criminal proceeding. The civil proceeding.
- Legal capacity, civil capacity, imputability.
- Crime report.
- The main crimes of interest for health professionals.
- The secret, the consent.
- Criminal liability; civil liability.

- The national health care system (NHS)
- The health professions
- Hand hygiene
- Sterilization and Sterility Control (Regional Standard): archives, documents, spore testing and procedures
- Waste management
- The activity in the outpatient clinics: decontamination and disinfection of the operating area, criteria for sending contaminated instruments to the sterilization center and storage and reordering of sterile and sterilized instrumentation.

- Principles of nutrition: micro- and macronutrients: healthy eating guidelines
- Energy balance and specific needs related to oral health
- Nutrition and caries: from foods to the oral microbiome; periodontal and bone health
- Pathologies and deficits related to oral health
- Specific dietary nutritional interventions related to oral cavity diseases (mucositis; dysphagia; gastroesophageal reflux disease)