Dental Hygiene

Activity type

Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari

SSD

MED/43

Year

2nd year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

2

Hours distribution

20 classroom hours

Lecturers

Antonio Boncompagni
Francesco De Giorgio

Activity type

Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari

SSD

MED/42

Year

2nd year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

10 classroom hours

Lecturers

STEFANO PETTI

Activity type

Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari

SSD

MED/44

Year

2nd year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

10 classroom hours

Lecturers

Francesco De Giorgio

Activity type

Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari

SSD

MED/36

Year

2nd year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

10 classroom hours

Lecturers

FRANCESCO MARAMPON

At the end of the course the student must know the basic elements of
connection between medicine and law and acquire
knowledge about different risk factors and occupational diseases
in the health professions also in relation to the regulations in force.
Upon completion of the course the student must know how to carry out the professional activity
in compliance with the legal rules and be aware of the main ones
deontological obligations in force in the profession.

Students that attend and pass the tests of the Courses of Legal Medicine, Radiation Protection, Hygiene, and Occupational Safety are totally autonomous and able to build ideal environment and working capacity, where their personal legal and medical problems due to practice, and the problems of their staff, patients and patients’ tutors are adequately contained.

These students will be able to produce a virtuous circle that will minimize the stress due to these problems.

Speaking, reading, and listening Italian

Legal Medicine (Dr. Francesco De Giorgio, Dr. Antonio Boncompagni)



Definition and Division of Forensic Medicine
Report and Report
Elements of Civil Forensic Medicine
Social Insurance, INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents and Occupational Diseases), Related Legal Obligations
Procedure for Recognition of Occupational Diseases
Principles of Ethics, Bioethics, and Deontology
Professional Association: Aims and Purposes
Consent and Privacy in Healthcare Practice. Professional Practice Management
Definition of Negligence in Healthcare.
Gelli Law and Its Main Applications.
Definition and classification of forensic medicine.
Reporting and Reporting.
Elements of civil forensic medicine.
Social insurance, INAIL (National Institute for Accidents and Occupational Diseases), related legal obligations.
Procedure for the recognition of occupational diseases.



Radiation Protection (Prof. Francesco Marampon)

Ionizing radiation:
Radiation physics and its biological effects
Dosimetric quantities
Fundamentals of radiation protection
Principles of justification and optimization
Types of irradiation and related risks
Principles of dose assessment and reduction
Protective devices and their use
Radiation protection measures
Radiation protection standards
Legislative Decree 187/2000 - EURATOM Directive 2013/59 - Legislative Decree 81/2008
Appropriateness, information, and informed consent in diagnostic radiology
Acquisition, management, and storage of radiological images
Equipment quality control
Healthcare personnel's responsibility in the use of radiation



Hygiene (Prof. Stefano Petti)

Introduction. Definitions. History of hygiene and of hygiene in dentistry;
General characteristics of infectious diseases. Epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases;
Epidemiological chain of infectious diseases;
Foodborne and waterborne infections;
Airborne infections;
Bloodborne infections;
Infectious diseases at high risk of transmission in the dental health care setting: Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis delta, AIDS, Covid-19, Tuberculosis, Influenza, Meningitis, Varicella, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, infection from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Emergent infectious diseases could be also discussed in the event that the risk for their transmission in the dental health care setting is high or that they are pandemic.



Occupational Safety (Prof. Stefano Petti, Dr. Francesco De Giorgio)

Workplace safety
Management of workplace prevention pursuant to Legislative Decree 81/08 and subsequent amendments.
Protection measures and obligations.
Risk assessment.
Health surveillance.
Education, information, and training.
Manual handling of loads.
Chemical agents.
Biological agents.
Carcinogens and mutagens.
Noise.
Vibrations.
Video display terminals.

Legal Medicine (Dr. Francesco De Giorgio, Dr. Antonio Boncompagni)
Drs. Francesco De Giorgio and Antonio Boncompagni will provide the proper material necessary to pass the exam.
For the purpose of consultation and in-depth study, the recommended books are:
Di Luca N.M., Feola T. Marinelli E., Ricci S. Nuovo Compendio di Medicina legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2021

Radiation Protection (Prof. Francesco Marampon)
Prof. Marampon will provide all the necessary material for the appropriate knowledge of Radiation Protection in Dental Healthcare Settings.
Further readings:
Magrini, S. M. Elementi di radiobiologia e radioprotezione. Piccin-Nuova Libraria
M. Bosetti, M. Gragiulo, P. Porto. Radioprotezione nella pratica odontoiatrica.: Guida completa alla diagnostica per immagini, responsabilità professionali e innovazione tecnologica. Health Care Management HCM. 2025

Hygiene (Prof. Stefano Petti)
All the fundamental topics necessary for the proper learning of Hygiene will be taught by Prof. Petti during synchronous lectures (in presence and/or online), thus giving the students the opportunity to produce and customize their own Hygiene manual. Therefore, a specific textbook is not mandatory.
Further reasdings:
Quaderni della Salute” del Ministero della Salute (freely available at: http://www.quadernidellasalute.it/archivio-quaderni/7-gennaio-febbraio-2011.php) pagine 35-48.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care" (freely available at: https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/pdf/safe-care2.pdf).
Further readings:
Montagna MT, Castiglia P, Liguori P, Quarto M. Igiene in Odontoiatria. Monduzzi Editore
Miller CH, Palenik CJ. Infection Control & Management of Hazardous Materials for the Dental Team. Elsevier Mosby Editore

Occupational Safety (Dr. Francesco De Giorgio)
The necessary material to pass the exam will be provided.
Further readings:
Sacco A., Ciavarella M., De Lorenzo G. MEDICINA DEL LAVORO Manuale per le professioni sanitarie. Seconda Edizione. EPC Editore.

Di Luca N.M., Feola T. Marinelli E., Ricci S. Nuovo Compendio di Medicina legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2021.
Magrini, S. M. Elementi di radiobiologia e radioprotezione. Piccin-Nuova Libraria.
M. Bosetti, M. Gragiulo, P. Porto. Radioprotezione nella pratica odontoiatrica.: Guida completa alla diagnostica per immagini, responsabilità professionali e innovazione tecnologica. Health Care Management HCM. 2025.
Quaderni della Salute” del Ministero della Salute (freely available at: http://www.quadernidellasalute.it/archivio-quaderni/7-gennaio-febbraio-2011.php) pagine 35-48.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care" (freely available at: https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/pdf/safe-care2.pdf).
Montagna MT, Castiglia P, Liguori P, Quarto M. Igiene in Odontoiatria. Monduzzi Editore.
Miller CH, Palenik CJ. Infection Control & Management of Hazardous Materials for the Dental Team. Elsevier Mosby Editore.
Sacco A., Ciavarella M., De Lorenzo G. MEDICINA DEL LAVORO Manuale per le professioni sanitarie. Seconda Edizione. EPC Editore

In-presence lectures are usually given by all the Professors. Online lectures also are considered, that are often requested by students through the anonymous OPIS questionnaire. More specifically, online lectures for all the attending students are necessary in peculiar situations like, for example, lockdown, general and transportation strikes, protests with protesters who do not allow the access to the lecture hall, frankly adverse climatic conditions, transfer impairments, such as railway closures due to works, etc.

ALL THE LECTURES ARE GIVEN BY THE REFERENCE PROFESSORS. This is an essential that warrants the building of a virtuous student-professor relationship.

Attending the lessons of the taught Courses is the basis of Article 34 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic that warrants the access to learning for all. Attending the lessons is not, therefore, an obligation, but a right and an opportunity to interact with professors and colleagues regarding the taught subjects.

The tests regarding Radiation Protection and Hygiene are in written form. The tests regarding Legal Medicine and Occupational Safety are verbal. The final score of the Integrated Course “Health Promotion and Safety” will be the mean of the scores of the four tests.

The Course of Health Promotion and Safety seeks to train and educate the attending students, trying to limit any kind of sciolism, that has a detrimental effect on the memory of the taught disciplines. For every Course, therefore, the items of the tests (either written or verbal) reflect the taught topics or topics specifically indicated by the professors in the material provided to the students.

• In order to facilitate the understanding of the various issues in
  the field of “Health Promotion and Safety”, the lectures will be given during
  the first semester of the second year of the Dental Hygiene Course, and will be
  given in blocks.
  
   
  
  The goal is to complete the explanation and the discussion of each
  issue within one lecture, thus removing the detrimental problem of dividing
  explanation and discussion of one topic in several parts at weeks of distance
  from each other.
  
   
  
  The comprehensive understanding and learning of “Health Promotion
  and Safety” passes through the four disciplines of Legal Medicine, Radiation
  Protection, Hygiene, Occupational Safety. The lectures of these discipline will
  be given in parallel to give the students the opportunity to learn different
  aspects of the same issue, object of the program of two or more disciplines,
  from the different standpoints of the involved disciplines.
  • Books: The notes taken by the students listening and actively
    
    intervening during the lessons asking questions and participating to the
    
    debates are the highest and most important existing type of text, that only
    
    synchronous Courses taught at the University can offer.
    
    
    
     
    
    
    
    Individually taken notes are tailored on each individual
    
    student and are essential to efficiently practice the Dental Hygienist
    
    profession.