Dentomaxillofacial Imaging & radioprotection

wdent1360  2019-2020  Bruxelles Woluwe

Dentomaxillofacial Imaging & radioprotection
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
22.5 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Clapuyt Philippe; Olszewski Raphaël (coordinator);
Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
- physics in the radiology and others imaging technology - interpretative rules in dental and panoramic Xrays - practical rules for dental, panoramic and cephalometric Xrays - basic elements of CT scans and MRI for the future dentist - radioprotection : rules, theory, Belgian laws
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of this theoretical and clinical teaching, the student must be able : - to understand all physico-chemical steps leading to a radiological image - to do himself all intra- and extraoral Xrays according to the belgian legal criterias - to interpret all dental Xrays - to discuss a radiological diagnosis for all kinds of dental, oral and maxillofacial diseases whose theoretical pictures have been teached otherwise - to take all necessary and obligatory radioprotective measures concerning the professional exercise of dentistry
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
- radioprotection, dental, panoramic and cephalometrics Xrays - basic elements of medical imaging technology which may be of interest for the future dentist. - practical exercises of doing and analysing dental, panoramic and cephalometrics Xray
Other information
Evaluation: written exam at the end of the year : OSRQ, MCQ for radioprotection. Support: - permanent staff of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery - slides (ppt.) and notes (Word), iCampus Pré-requis : Basic elements of physics, chemistry and human anatomy
Bibliography
Support : Tout le staff permanent du service de stomatologie et de chirurgie maxillo-faciale ; documents PowerPoint pour diapositives.
Faculty or entity
MDEN


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in Dentistry