Dental School

Activity type

Discipline odontoiatriche e radiologiche

SSD

MED/29

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

2

Hours distribution

24 classroom hours

Lecturers

VALENTINO VALENTINI
MARIA TERESA FADDA

Activity type

Formazione interdisciplinare

SSD

MED/31

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

1

Hours distribution

12 classroom hours

Lecturers

ANTONIO MINNI

Activity type

Formazione interdisciplinare

SSD

MED/31

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

1

Hours distribution

12 classroom hours

Lecturers

ANTONIO MINNI

Activity type

Discipline odontoiatriche e radiologiche

SSD

MED/29

Year

N/D

Semester

N/D

CFU

3

Hours distribution

36 classroom hours

Lecturers

The aim of the course is focused on making students aware of the main pathologies that affect the maxillo – facial district. In particular, a specific emphasis is placed on the diagnostic procedure and to the choice of the most appropriate surgical procedures.
By the end of the course students must:
- know the main pathologies that affect the maxilla – facial district.
- recognize the most important emergencies in maxillo – facial surgery and their management.
- perform an accurate physical examination of the maxillo – facial district
- identify the most appropriate procedure for each different pathology

In order to get a full understandings of the main maxillo facial surgery topics students needs to have a deeply knowledge of the head and neck anatomy and of head and neck general and disease specific pathology

TRAUMATOLOGY:
- emergency procedures in cranio - maxillo - facial surgery: airway and bleeding management
- mandibular fractures
- maxillary fractures
- Malar bone fractures
- Orbital Fractures
- Panfacial fractures
- Frontal bone fractures

CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION
- evaluation and surgical management of the most common dento - maxillo - facial malformations
and cranio - facial malformations

HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGICAL SURGERY
- benign lesions of head and neck
- evaluation and surgical management of malignant lesions of oral cavity and oropharynx
- evaluation and surgical management of malignant lesions of nasal and paranasal cavity
- evaluation and surgical management of salivary glands lesions
- evaluation and surgical management of oropharyngeal cancer

RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
- general principles
- grafts
- pedicle flaps
- free flaps

FACIAL PALSY
- general evaluation
- surgical managent of facial palsy

Organi di senso - Manuale per l' approccio integrato alle patologie testa - collo
Polimeni - De Vincentiis - Lambiase - Valentini
Edra Masson 2019

Module: MAXILLO FACIAL SURGERY I
N/D
Module: MAXILLO FACIAL SURGERY II
N/D
Module: OTOLARYNGOLOGY I
N/D
Module: OTOLARYNGOLOGY II
N/D

Lectures and clinical training session.

Students must attend at least 60% of all lessons

The final evaluation of the entire course will be based on the results of an oral test.

Which is the DOI threshold above which it is indicated to perform a neck dissection in the case of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity?

What is the lower mandibular site with the highest incidence of fractures?

• Head and neck surgical oncology (oral cavity, nose and paranasal sinuses, salivary glands, oropharynx, bone and soft tissue sarcomas 
  • Books: Dedicated chapters in text book and papers and other study material given by teaching professor


• Reconstructive Surgery and microsurgery
  • Books: Dedicated chapters in text book and papers and other study material given by teaching professor


• Trigeminal and facial nerve surgery
  • Books: Dedicated chapters in text book and papers and other study material given by teaching professor


• New technologies in maxillofacial surgery
  • Books: Dedicated chapters in text book and papers and other study material given by teaching professor