Bachelor's degree in Dentistry & Dental Health in Málaga

Plan de estudios ofertado en el curso actual

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The Degree in Dentistry at Universidad Europea de Andalucía offers a practical training of excellence, assigning 36 ECTS to supervised clinical practices, distributed in Initiation to Integrated Clinical Practice (12 ECTS) and Supervised Practices (24 ECTS), which are developed during the last four semesters of the program. These internships are key to the training of future dentists, providing the clinical experience necessary to meet the demanding objectives of the degree.

The internship takes place at the Polyclinic of Universidad Europea de Andalucía, in a real healthcare environment. Students will work in pairs, in a dental clinical rotation that allows them to evaluate and treat patients in a comprehensive manner, under the constant supervision of a team of professors with extensive professional experience.

During this internship, students not only develop clinical competencies, but also focus on communication skills, clinical management, critical thinking and professional judgment. This comprehensive assessment ensures that students acquire the skills and attitudes necessary for successful professional practice. Working with real patients of all ages and conditions provides a unique and valuable experience that completes their academic training, giving them the confidence and skills to perform in the field of dentistry upon graduation.

This intensely supervised, hands-on approach provides solid, real-world training, preparing future dentists for the challenges of the professional environment with a comprehensive experience that sets them apart in the job market.

Knowledge

• CON01 - Know the essential elements of the dental profession, including ethical principles and legal responsibilities.
• CON02 - Understand the importance of these principles for the benefit of the patient, society and the profession, with special attention to professional confidentiality.
• CON03 - Know the social and psychological aspects relevant to the treatment of patients.
• CON04 - Understand the importance of developing a professional practice with respect to patient autonomy, beliefs and culture.
• CON05 - Describe the anatomy, physiopathology, and oral pathology of a simulated patient in a pre-clinical environment to carry out a rehabilitative or restorative diagnosis and treatment.
• CON06 - Understand the importance of maintaining and using patient information records for subsequent analysis, preserving the confidentiality of the data.
• CON07 - Know and identify the psychological and physical problems derived from gender violence in order to train students in prevention, early detection, assistance and rehabilitation of the victims of this form of violence.
• CON08 - Understand the basic biomedical sciences on which dentistry is based to ensure correct oral-dental care.
• CON09 - Know the structure and normal function of the stomatognathic apparatus, at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ level, in the different stages of life.
• CON10 - Know the science of biomaterials essential for dental practice, as well as the immediate management of possible allergies to them.
• CON11 - Know general disease processes and their treatment, including infection, inflammation, immune system disorders, degeneration, neoplasia, metabolic disorders and genetic disorders.
• CON12 - Know general pathological characteristics of diseases and disorders affecting organ systems, specifically those with oral repercussions.
• CON13 - Understand the basis of action, indications and efficacy of drugs and other therapeutic interventions, knowing their contraindications, interactions, systemic effects and interactions on other organs, based on the available scientific evidence.
• CON14 - Know the principles of ergonomics and safety at work, including cross-infection control, radiation protection, occupational and biological diseases.
• CON15 - Identify the role of the dentist in the prevention and protection against oral diseases, as well as in the maintenance and promotion of health, both at individual and community level.
• CON16 - Know the National Health System, as well as the basic aspects of health legislation, clinical management and adequate use of health resources, understanding the importance of the role of the dentist in Primary Health Care.
• CON17 - Know the biomedical sciences on which Dentistry is based to ensure correct oral-dental care, including appropriate contents of Embryology, Anatomy, Histology, and Physiology of the human body.
• CON18 - Know the biomedical sciences on which Dentistry is based to ensure correct oral-dental care, including appropriate content in Genetics, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology.
• CON19 - Know the biomedical sciences on which dentistry is based to ensure correct oral and dental care, including appropriate content in Microbiology and Immunology.
• CON20 - Know the morphology and function of the stomatognathic system, including appropriate contents of specific embryology, anatomy, histology, and physiology.
• CON21 - Know the legislative and administrative ethical and deontological precepts that regulate the dental profession and their application in management and clinical practice, as well as knowledge of the organisation, competences and functions of the professional associations.

Competences

• CP01 - Know and apply the scientific method with critical thinking skills to evaluate established knowledge and new information.
• CP02 - Select and use sterilisation, disinfection and antisepsis procedures necessary to prevent cross-infection in the dental practice.
• CP03 - Manage oral radiodiagnostic facilities, understanding the risks of ionising radiation and its effects on biological tissues, and the legislation that regulates its use.
• CP04 - Order, take and interpret radiographs required in dental practice and identify other relevant imaging diagnostic techniques.
• CP05 - Select and apply clinical and laboratory diagnostic procedures and tests, interpret their results using clinical judgement and assess their diagnostic reliability and validity for appropriate decision making.
• CP06 - Identify, evaluate and interpret the characteristics of normality and oral pathology and semiological data.
• CP07 - Obtain a general medical history from the patient and complete a clinical record that accurately reflects the patient's documentation, identifying the chief complaint and history of present illness.
• CP08 - Integrate and use communication strategies and knowledge of human behaviour in dental care.
• CP09 - Handle, discriminate and select appropriate materials and instruments in Dentistry.
• CP10 - Select and handle dental biomaterials safely and responsibly, taking into account their properties, clinical indications, health risks, and environmental impact.
• CP11 - Identify and use basic equipment and instrumentation for dental practice.
• CP12 - Apply the principles of ergonomics in dental work, both individually and within the work team where appropriate, as well as the principles of occupational risk prevention associated with dental practice.
• CP13 - Provide a comprehensive approach to oral care, applying the principles of health promotion and prevention of oral diseases.
• CP14 - Educate and motivate patients in the prevention of oral diseases, control pathogenic oral habits, instruct them on proper oral hygiene, dietary and nutritional measures and, in summary, on all methods of maintaining oral health.
• CP15 - Identify and recognise the impact of tobacco on oral health and intervene to support patients who wish to stop smoking.
• CP16 - Analyse and evaluate the interactions between environmental, social and behavioural factors and their influence on oral and general health; apply community oral health diagnostic procedures, interpret their results and consider the implications of demographic and epidemiological trends for dental practice.
• CP17 - Identify and analyse the organisation and delivery of oral health care in the community, both in the public and private sectors, as well as general health care, and recognise the role of the dentist in these contexts.
• CP18 - Design and implement oral health programmes, including the inter-institutional and inter-professional coordination required for their implementation.
• CP19 - Complete and properly maintain medico-legal documents and records.
• CP20 - Work with other health professionals and members of the dental team, recognising the role of the dentist within the health professions.
• CP21 - Recognise that the patient is the centre of care and that all interactions, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment planning and implementation, and maintenance, should be in the patient's best interests, avoiding discrimination of any kind and respecting confidentiality.
• CP22 - Identify signs and behaviours that may indicate a situation of abuse, demonstrating sensitivity, ethical responsibility and professionalism in the context of dental care.
• CP23 - Analyze and identify the general processes of disease, healing, and repair, including infection, inflammation, haemorrhage and coagulation, healing, trauma and alterations of the immune system, degeneration, neoplasia, metabolic alterations and genetic disorders.
• CP24 - Analyze and identify the general pathological characteristics of diseases and disorders affecting organ systems.
• CP25 - Identify, analyze, and relate the oral manifestations of systemic diseases.
• CP26 - Recognize, select, and properly prescribe general and clinical-use drugs in dental practice.
• CP27 - Analyze and describe the pharmacological bases of the different anaesthetic techniques, both local and general, assessing the role of sedation and general anaesthesia in the management of the dental patients.
• CP28 - Identify and manage the most frequent emergencies and medical emergencies in dental practice, as well as perform basic cardiorespiratory resuscitation techniques.
• CP29 - Analyze, relate, and apply nutritional habits and diet in the promotion of health and the prevention of oral diseases.
• CP30 - Identify, plan and carry out basic treatment of oral pathology in patients of all ages, based on the concept of minimal intervention and a comprehensive, integrated approach to dental care.
• CP31 - Diagnose, design, and carry out, in general, multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated treatment of limited complexity in patients of all ages and conditions, including patients with special needs (diabetics, hypertensive, oncological, transplanted, immunosuppressed, anticoagulated, among others) or disabled patients.
• CP32 - Indicate, take, and interpret radiographs and other image-based procedures relevant to dental practice.
• CP33 - Make diagnostic models, mount them, and take inter-occlusal records.
• CP34 - Identify the patient's aesthetic requirements and analyze the possibilities of meeting their expectations.
• CP35 - Identify patients requiring special care, recognising their characteristics and peculiarities.
• CP36 - Evaluate and analyze motor and sensory function of the mouth, jaws, and adjacent structures.
• CP37 - Perform limited procedures of invasive diagnostic techniques in soft tissues (biopsies).
• CP38 - Prescribe drugs appropriately, knowing their contraindications, interactions, systemic effects, and repercussions on other organs.
• CP39 - Apply loco-regional anaesthesia techniques.
• CP40 - Prepare and isolate the operative field.
• CP41 - Identify, assess and manage medical emergencies that may arise in clinical practice, including the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, management of acute infections, pharmacological prescribing and basic surgical procedures.
• CP42 - Identify, analyze, and manage any dental emergencies.
• CP43 - Perform both medical and surgical treatment of common oral soft tissue diseases.
• CP44 - Perform simple surgical procedures: extraction of erupted primary and permanent teeth, fractured or retained roots and uncomplicated surgical extraction of unerupted teeth and simple pre-prosthetic surgical procedures.
• CP45 - Treat dental alveolar trauma in the primary and permanent dentition.
• CP46 - Treat both pharmacologically and surgically the inflammatory processes of periodontal and/or peri-implant tissues, including supra and subgingival periodontal instrumentation techniques.
• CP47 - Assess and treat the patient with caries or other non-carious dental pathology using all materials aimed to restore the form, function, and aesthetics of the tooth in patients of all ages.
• CP48 - Design, prepare teeth, prescribe, record, perform clinical testing and place and prepare indirect restorations: inlays, veneers or aesthetic laminate fronts and single crowns.
• CP49 - Treat destructive processes and traumatic dental lesions operatively.
• CP50 - Perform root canal treatments, using procedures to preserve pulp vitality.
• CP51 - Perform conventional aesthetic procedures from a multidisciplinary perspective.
• CP52 - Treatment of both partial and total edentulism, including biological design, tooth preparation, record acquisition, clinical testing and patient fitting of removable partial and complete dentures, simple tooth-supported fixed dental prostheses and simple implant-supported prostheses, both removable and fixed, including fitting and commissioning.
• CP53 - Prepare prescriptions for custom-made medical devices: dental prostheses and orthodontic appliances and dentofacial orthopaedics.
• CP54 - Perform non-surgical treatment of temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain.
• CP55 - Perform the oral and dental treatment of paediatric patients and recognise their characteristics and peculiarities.
• CP56 - Identify and correct oral habits likely to cause or exacerbate malocclusions.
• CP57 - Plan, determine the specific design features, records, prescription, clinical testing, fitting and clinical adjustment for commissioning of fixed and removable space maintainers and interceptive orthodontic techniques as well as active removable elements intended to shift teeth or correct crossbites.
• CP58 - Apply in a global, multidisciplinary and integrative manner the knowledge, skills and competences in the practical and systematised development of pre-professional practices, in a clinical dental rotation, with a final assessment of competences, which allow the incorporation of professional values, care communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgement, including clinical work of the student on patients of all ages and conditions, in an integrated manner and under adequate supervision.
• CP59 - Apply in a global, multidisciplinary, and integrating manner the knowledge, skills, and competences in the practical and systematised development of a final degree project in the field of dentistry, presenting and defending it publicly in front of a university examining panel.
• CP60 - Use information and communication technologies for data research and analysis, research, communication and learning.
• CP61 - Demonstrate ethical behaviour and social and environmental commitment in the performance of professional activities, as well as sensitivity to inequality, diversity, and respect for fundamental rights, including sexual freedom and the prevention of sexual violence.

Skills

• HAB01 - Analyze patients' concerns and expectations, as well as communicate effectively and clearly, both orally and in writing, with patients, relatives, the media and other professionals.
• HAB02 - Apply principles of anxiety and stress management to oneself, patients and other members of the dental team.
• HAB03 - Share information with other health professionals and work in a team.
• HAB04 - Use clinical and biomedical information sources and critically assess them in order to obtain, organize, interpret and communicate scientific and health information.
• HAB05 - Use the scientific method by developing the critical ability to evaluate established knowledge and new information. Formulate hypotheses, gather and critically evaluate information to solve problems using the scientific method.
• HAB06 - Compile a clinical history that includes all relevant information.
• HAB07 - Carry out a full oral examination, including appropriate radiographic and complementary exploratory tests, as well as obtaining appropriate clinical references.
• HAB08 - Formulate an initial diagnostic judgement, establish a reasoned diagnostic strategy and be competent in recognising situations requiring urgent dental care.
• HAB09 - Establish the diagnosis, prognosis and adequate therapeutic planning in all clinical areas of Dentistry, being competent in the diagnosis, prognosis and elaboration of the dental treatment plan of the patient requiring special care, including medically compromised patients (such as diabetics, hypertensive, immunosuppressed, anticoagulated, among others) and patients with disabilities.
• HAB10 - Recognize life-threatening situations and know how to perform basic life support manoeuvres.
• HAB11 - Carry out basic treatment for the most common oral diseases in patients of all ages, recognising that therapeutic procedures must be based on the concept of minimal intervention and an integrated global approach to dental care.
• HAB12 - Carry out multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated dental treatment of limited complexity in patients of all ages and conditions and patients requiring special care.
• HAB13 - Apply appropriate preventive measures for each clinical situation.
• HAB14 - Treat patients under clinical supervision.
• HAB15 - Recognize the determinants of oral health in the population, both genetic and those dependent on lifestyles, demographic, environmental, social, economic, psychological and cultural factors.

• Private practice, either as a self-employed professional with your own dental practice or working in third-party clinics and practices.
• Primary and hospital care, providing dental services in public and private health centres, hospitals, or health insurance companies.
• Joining the pharmaceutical industry and working in companies in the dental industry, collaborating in research, development and technical consultancy.

• Taking part in oral health prevention campaigns in primary, secondary and university schools.
• Teaching in public and private institutions, universities and hospitals.
• Collaborating with NGOs focused on dental health.

• Scientific research in the areas of advanced dentistry and oral health.
• Providing service in prisons and specialisation in legal and forensic dentistry.

The ideal profile for the Bachelor’s Degree in Dentistry includes people genuinely committed to improving the oral health and wellbeing of patients, as well as a deep interest in the anatomical and technical knowledge needed to accurately treat the stomatognathic system. These students stand out for their manual skills and attention to detail, which are essential qualities for performing high-precision procedures. They also show analytical and problem-solving skills, which are essential for dental diagnosis and treatment.