Course Syllabus for Master Degree in Implantology
1st year program
2. Diagnosis
4. Basic principles of oral surgery, implantology and osseointegration
2nd year program
7. Oral surgery
8. Complications in implantology and oral surgery. Prevention and treatment
9. Periodontal disease. Diagnosis and treatment
10. Advanced implantology. Sinus elevation, short implants, pterygoid implants, zygomatic implants
11. Membrane-guided bony regeneration, crest expansion, flaps and block
12. Implant-supported prosthesis
13. Implant-supported prosthesis in edentulous maxilla and mandible
14. Complex interdisciplinary treatments
15. Master’s Thesis
1. Anatomy and Physiology
Basic Data
Subject : ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Type : Compulsory
Year : 1
ECTS : 4
Total hours : 100 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents
1. Anatomy
1.1. Embriological development of the head and neck
1.2. Postnatal development of the head and neck
1.3. Cranial bones anatomy
1.4. Mastication muscles
1.5. Mimetic (facial) muscles
1.6. Temporomadibular joint anatomy
1.7. Arterial and venous irrigation of the head and neck
1.8. Lymphatic system of the head and neck
1.9. Innervation of the head and neck. A detailed study of facial and trigeminal nerve
2. Physiology
2.1. Muscular physiology, biological and biochemical bases of muscular contraction
2.2. Mastication muscles action
2.3. Suprahyoid muscles action
2.4. Infrahyoid muscles action
2.5. Mandibular physiological movements. Protrusion, retrusion, opening, closing, lateral movements.
2.6. Concepts of Centric Relation, Maximal Intercuspation, Long Centric and Therapeutic position.
2.7. Influence of the anterior and canine guides in TMJ
2.8. Factors that have influence on appearance of TMJ overload
2.9. Deglutition
2.10 Mastication
2.11 Resiration
2.12 Suction (sucking habit)
2.13 Bone physiology
2. Diagnosis
Basic Data
Subject : DIAGNOSIS
Type : Compulsory
Year : 1
ECTS : 9
Total hours : 225 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents
Diagnosis tests in implantology
Applied anatomy in implantology
Therapeutic possibilities in implantology
Risk factors and counter indications
X-ray and surgical splints
Periodontal and restoration prognosis
Treatment alternatives
Current criteria of success in implantology
Post-operative recommendations and instructions
Anatomy of periodont
Diagnostic splint
X-ray splint
Surgical splint
CBCT
HCT
CT errors
Troubleshooting
Implant height and width
Implant type
Bone density
3D disposition of an implant
Primary and secondary stability
Waiting time
Immediate load
CBCT densitometric calibration
Dental photography
Records: Clinical history, CT, models, articulator records
Surgical field preparation
3. Treatment Plan. Timeline
Basic Data
Subject : TREATMENT PLAN. TIMELINE
Type : Compulsory
Year : 1
ECTS : 2
Total hours : 50 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents
Diagnosis tests in implantology
Applied anatomy in implantology
Therapeutic possibilities in implantology
Risk factors and counter indications
X-ray and surgical splints
Periodontal and restoration prognosis
Treatment alternatives
Current criteria of success in implantology
Post-operative recommendations and instructions
4. Basic principles of oral surgery, implantology and osseointegration
Basic Data
Subject : Basic principles of oral surgery, implantology and osseointegration
Type : Compulsory
Year : 1
ECTS : 6
Total hours : 150 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
1. Introduction to oral implantology
1.1. Historical references
1.2. Basic concepts
1.3. Biological bases of osseointegration
1.4. Bone reply chronology
1.5. Chemical characteristics of titanium and other materials
1.6. Osseointegration requirements
1.7. Postrauma physiology of the bone. Osseointegration physiology
1.8. Loading effect on the bone
1.9. Functional adaptation
1.10. Homeostasis of the bone-implant interface
1.11. Keys to a predictable osseointegration
2. Treatment plan
2.1. Indications
2.2. Counterindications
2.3. Clinical history
2.4. Oral examination
2.5. Study models
2.6. Diagnostic waxing
2.7. X-ray study. X.ray splints
2.8. Surgical guides
2.9. Provisional prosthesis
3. Biomechanics
3.1. Basic concepts of biomechanics
3.2. Primary stability
3.3. Secondary stability
3.4. Bone type effect and implant diameter effect in tension dispersion
3.5. Implants splinting
4. Office and patient preparation for surgery
4.1. Pre-medication
4.2. Operating room and instruments preparation
4.3. Postoperative period and medication
5. Medical evaluation of a patient. Medically compromised patient. Intravenous sedation. Informed consent
Basic Data
Subject : Medical evaluation of a patient. Medically compromised patient. Intravenous sedation. Informed consent
Type : Compulsory
Year : 1
ECTS : 2
Total hours : 50 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
Basic medical evaluation
Medical pathologies which can intervene
Pharmacologic interactions
Multi-pathology patients
Local anesthesia: physiology, types, classification
Repercusion that might appear over the existent pathologies
Local anesthesia techniques and complications
Sedation types, preliminary examination of a patient, and preoperative period preparation
Superficial sedation, conscious sedation, inhalation sedation. Requirements of each level of sedation
Sedatives, opioids, neuroleptics, and hypnotics.
Intravenous sedation methodology
Inhalation sedation methodology
Sedation complications: Diagnosis and treatment
Sedation in children
Informed consent
6. Surgical techniques
Basic Data
Subject : SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
Type : Compulsory
Year : 1
ECTS : 4
Total hours : 100 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
1. Instrumental, incisions and sutures
2. Importance of soft tissues in implantology
2.1. Biological width
2.2. Mucous seal
3. Implants characteristics
3.1. Types of implants
3.2. Indications for different types of implants
3.3. Selection of number, type and distribution of implants
4. Drilling protocol
4.1. Justification of low-revolution drilling
4.2. Drilling steps depending on the bone type
5. Complications
6. Pharmacologic interferences. Biphosphonates and other antiresorptive drugs
7. Suturing techniques
7.1. Sutural objective
7.2. Sutural materials. Ideal quality of suture
7.3. Classification of sutures
7.4. Comparison of different types of sutures
7.5. Surgical needles. Types. Indications
7.6. Suturing techniques
7.7. Indications in periodontics an orthodontics
7.8. Suture removal
7.9. Practice in suture techniques in animal heads
8. CPR
9. Plasma Rich in Growth Factors
9.1. Endoret Technology (PRGF)
9.2. Endoret extraction protocol (PRGF)
9.3. Clinical applications in dentistry
7. Oral surgery
Basic Data
Subject : ORAL SURGERY
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 6
Total hours : 150 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
1. Teeth avulsions, included teeth: wisdom teeth, canines, and other teeth
1.1. Concept and incidence of included teeth
1.2. Diagnosis tests in included teeth
1.3. Included canine: therapeutic and technical possibilities of treatment
1.4. Anatomy and embryology of third molars
1.5. Surgical technique in extraction of third molars
1.6. Post-operative management after the exodontia of third molars
1.7. Complications in extraction of third molars
1.8. Germectomy
1.9. Included temporary teeth
1.10. Other included teeth
1.11. Supernumerary teeth
1.12. Dentoalveolar trauma
2. Odontogenetic infections
2.1. Etiopathogeny of infection
2.2. Defense mechanisms of a host facing the infection
2.3. Microbiology of an infection
2.4. Spreading ways of an odontogenic infection
2.5. Diagnosis of infection
2.6. Abscesses limited to oral cavity
2.7. Infections of primary fascial spaces
2.8. Infections of secondary fascial spaces
2.9. Complications of odontogenic infections
2.10. Treatment principles
2.11. Antimicrobian treatment
2.12. Surgical treatment
2.13. Case reports
3. Periapical surgery
3.1. General concepts
3.2. Drainage of periapical abscess
3.3. Apicoectomy
3.4. Retrograde filling
4.Cystic pathology of jaws
4.1. General concepts
4.2. Odontogenic epithelial cysts
4.3. Non-odontogenic epithelial cysts
4.4. Non-epithelial cysts
4.5. Case reports
5. Tumoral pathology of jaws
5.1. Odontogenic tumors
5.2. Non-odontogenic tumors
5.3. Case reports
6.Minor preprosthetic surgery
6.1. General concepts
6.2. Labial frenectomy
6.3. Lingual frenectomy
6.4. Fibrous bands
6.5. Hypertrophy of tuberosities
6.6. Epulis exeresis
6.7. Alveoloplasty
6.8. Palatine torus exeresis
6.9. Lingual torus exeresis
6.10.Exostosis exeresis
6.11. Vestibuloplasty
8. Complications in implantology and oral surgery. Prevention and treatment
Basic Data
Subject : Complications in implantology and oral surgery. Prevention and treatment
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 2
Total hours : 50 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, lab practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
Anatomy applied to complications in Oral surgery and Implantology
Diagnosis tests oriented to detect complications in Oral surgery and Implantology
Surgical technique to solve efficiently different complications in Oral surgery and Implantology
Classification of complications in Oral surgery and Implantology
Treatment possibilities and prognosis of complications in Oral surgery and Implantology
Recommendations and post-operative instructions
9. Periodontal disease. Diagnosis and treatment
Basic Data
Subject : Periodontal disease. Diagnosis and treatment
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 2
Total hours : 50 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
1. Basic periodontics
1.1. Periodontal diagnosis.
1.2. Classification of periodontal diseases
1.3. Periodontal examination. Periodontogram
1.4. Periodontal risk factors
1.5. Periodontal prognosis
1.6. Treatment plan. Periodontal treatment phases
1.7. Periodontal preparation of a implantology patient
1.8. Basic periodontal treatment. RAP
1.9. Scraping vs. curettage
1.10. Clinical response to RAP
1.11. Limitations of RAP
2. Surgical periodontics
2.1. Objectives and indications of surgical periodontics
2.2. Pre-operative medical and anatomical considerations
2.3. Management of incisions and flaps and their types
2.4. Resective surgery of soft tissues
2.5. Resective surgery of hard tissues. Elongation of the crown
2.6. Regenerative surgery
2.6.1. Bony filling
2.6.2. Membranes
2.6.3. Enamel proteins
2.7. Management of complications and post-operative care
10. Advanced implantology. Sinus elevation, short implants, pterygoid implants, zygomatic implants
Basic Data
Subject : Advanced implantology. Sinus elevation, short implants, pterygoid implants, zygomatic implant
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 3
Total hours : 75 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
Anatomy and physiology applied to advanced Implantology
Diagnosis tests applied to advanced Implantology
Indications and surgical technique in sinus elevation
Indications and surgical technique in short implants
Indications and surgical technique in pterygoid implants
Indications and surgical technique in zygomatic implants
Recommendations and post-operative instructions
11. Membrane-guided bony regeneration, crest expansion, flaps and block
Basic Data
Subject : Membrane-guided bony regeneration, crest expansion, flaps and block
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 3
Total hours : 75 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
Surgical anatomy and physiology of bone grafts
Clinical and X-ray diagnosis of bone atrophies
Techniques of bone graft in block
Results and complications
12. Implant-supported prosthesis
Basic Data
Subject : Implant-supported prosthesis
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 6
Total hours : 150 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
1. Single implant-supported prosthesis
1.1. Implants in one or two phases
1.2. Immediate post-extraction implants
1.3. Primary stability and immediate load
1.4. Provisional single tooth
1.5. Prosthetic pilars
1.5.1 Prosthetic pilars designed for single screwed prosthesis
1.5.2 Prosthetic pilars designed for single bonded prosthesis
1.6 Advantages and disadvantages of a single bonded prosthesis
1.7 Advantages and disadvantages of a single screwed prosthesis
1.8 Impression taking techniques in single implant-supported prosthesis
1.9 Techniques for reproduction of emergency profiles
2. Prosthetic options in the multiple implants rehabilitation
2.1 Passive adjustment
2.2 Provisionals in the absence of multiple teeth
2.3 Prosthetic pilars designed for multiple screwed prosthesis
2.4 Prosthetic pilars designed for multiple bonded prosthesis
2.5 Impression taking techniques in multiple implant-supported prosthesis
2.6 Advantages and disadvantages of cantilevers in implant-supported prosthesis
2.7 Advantages and disadvantages of tooth-implant unification
13. Implant-supported prosthesis in edentulous maxilla and mandible
Basic Data
Subject : Implant-supported prosthesis in edentulous maxilla and mandible
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 3
Total hours : 75 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
Passive adjustment
Provisionals in edentulous patients
Prosthetic pilars designed for whole arch screwed prosthesis
Prosthetic pilars designed for whole arch bonded prosthesis
Técnicas de toma de impresión en prótesis sobre implantes de arco completo
Advantages and disadvantages of screwed implant-supported prosthesis
Advantages and disadvantages of bonded implant-supported prosthesis
Special designs for zygomatic and/or pterygoid implant-supported prosthesis
Occlusion in implant-supported prosthesis
14. Complex interdisciplinary treatments
Basic Data
Subject : Complex interdisciplinary treatments
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 3
Total hours : 75 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
Individual periodontal prognosis
General vs. Individual prognosis
Interdisciplinary treatment plan
Combined treatment between orthodontics and periodontics
Combined treatment between orthodontics and prosthesis
Combined treatment between periodontics and prosthesis
Combined treatment between implantology and esthetics
15. Master’s Thesis
Basic Data
Subject : Master’s Thesis
Type : Compulsory
Year : 2
ECTS : 3
Total hours : 75 hours
In-class activities : Theory and interactive classes, laboratory practice, clinical practice
Independent work : Online exercises
Subject contents :
1. Scientific method
1.1. Research in health sciencies
1.2. Types of scientific studies
1.3. A scientific study design
2. Bibliographic research
2.1. Field work
2.2. Interpretation and analysis of biomedical documents
3. Oral communication
4. Master's Thesis
4.1. Elaboration of a Master's Thesis investigation work
4.2. Presentation of a Master's Thesis investigation work
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