A Professional master’s degree 100% online that responds to your desire to update you in the approach to patients with Special Needs in dental practice"

From adapting the environment, to dealing with accidental exposure to a virus in the dental office, or even implementing a protocol for diagnosing and treating a patient suffering from CRP in a dental office. A set of actions that lead the dental professional to be prepared not only to attend the most frequent pathologies, but also to handle different situations in patients with Special Needs.

Beyond people with functional diversity or in advanced age, the dentist must be aware of the approach to other cardiovascular, renal, oncological diseases or even in lactating women patients with diabetes. Aware of this need, TECH has designed this Professional Master's Degree that allows the graduate to obtain a complete update in only 12 months.

An intensive but dynamic program thanks to a syllabus designed to offer a theoretical-practical perspective from the very beginning. In addition, students will have at their disposal first class teaching tools based on video summaries of each topic, videos in detail, specialized readings and clinical cases prepared by an excellent team of dental professionals with accumulated experience in the sector.

In this way, students will be able to keep abreast of advances in dental care for patients with endocrine, digestive-hepatic, oncological, cardiovascular, and psychiatric disorders, and will end with an in-depth study of less frequent situations in the dental clinic.

Undoubtedly, an ideal opportunity to update your knowledge through an advanced and flexible academic option. All you need, to take the course, is a digital device with an internet connection, which allows you to view the content at any time of the day. This way, without the need for attendance or scheduled classes, the professional will be able to combine their daily activities with a first class program.

You are looking at a Professional master’s degreethat adapts to your schedule and allows you to combine your responsibilities with a quality program"

This Professional master’s degree in Odontology for Patients with Special Needs contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. Its most outstanding features are:

• Practical cases presented by experts in Dentistry
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies 
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Integrates the most effective clinical methodology in autoimmune people with dental problems thanks to the numerous clinical cases in this program"

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

Update your clinical practice in patients with systemic diseases parallel to their own oral health problem"

Get a complete update on the dental management of patients with chronic or acute pathology"

The professional who takes this academic proposal will obtain, after its 12-month duration, a complete update on the approach from Odontology for Patients with Special Needs. A goal that will be achieved thanks to a syllabus that will lead them to be aware of the protocols of action, taking into account the various characteristics of the patient and pathologies such as cardiovascular, oncological, renal or hematological alterations, among others.

An academic proposal that will bring you updated on the management of lactating women with oral health problems”

General Objectives

• Update knowledge on the identification of endocrine pathologies that may affect the normal development of dental treatment
• Analyze digestive pathologies that may hinder dental treatment
• Define the pharmacological guidelines for patients with IBD
• Define and analyze the basic and advanced aspects that define the actions to be taken in case of the main urgent and emergent conditions in a dental office
• Address the most common medical complications in patients with renal pathology
• Provide updated recommendations based on scientific evidence for an adequate dental approach to patients affected by head and neck cancer
• Describe the appropriate actions in the pre-treatment period, during and after cancer treatment, from an odontological point of view
• Identify the main oral characteristics of patients with functional diversity
• Delve into the cardiovascular pathologies with the highest incidence in our daily practice in the dental clinic
• Update knowledge on the medical conditions and medication with hematological alterations
• Deepen in the main complications derived from the medical pathology presented
• Delve into the possible interactions derived from the medical pathology in the dental setting

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Dental Care in Patients with Endocrine Pathology. Special situations in women

• Identify the medical complications of Diabetes Mellitus in relation to dental treatment
• Establish the existing association according to the scientific literature between Diabetes and Periodontal Disease and vice versa, and with other oral pathologies
• Present a protocol for dental care in patients with Diabetes Mellitus
• Identify the medical complications of hyper or hypothyroidism in relation to dental treatment
• Present a protocol for dental care in patients with hyper or hypothyroidism
• Specify in which situations we can detect a possible adrenal insufficiency due to taking exogenous corticoids
• Present a protocol for dental care in patients taking high doses of corticosteroids
• Identify the systemic complications associated with being pregnant or breastfeeding in relation to dental treatment
• Present a protocol for dental care for pregnant and lactating women

Module 2. Dental Care in Patients with Digestive-Hepatologic Pathology

• Identify a history of peptic ulcer in the medical history
• Evaluate the risk of NSAID treatment for the gastric mucosa
• Establish a protocol for the prescription of NSAIDs in patients with peptic ulcer disease
• Identify the drugs that can cause pseudomembranous colitis
• Analyze the risks involved in prescribing drugs to patients with IBD
• Establish an action protocol for patients with Hepatitis B or C
• Propose an action protocol for accidental exposure to the Hepatitis virus

Module 3. Management of urgent and emergency situations in the dental office

• Define the concepts of urgency and emergency
• Analyze the definition of alert criteria and alarm criteria
• Study the principles that define the critical patient in a generic way
• Define the principles of severity standardization
• Analyze the specific action guidelines for each syndromic condition included in emergency medicine and its application in the dental office
• Study and analyze the principles governing life support for patients in CRA (cardiorespiratory arrest) according to the European Resuscitation Council 2021 recommendations
• Define and analyze the essential technical and pharmacological resources for a dental office

Module 4. Dental Care in Patients with Renal Pathology. Dental Care in Patients with Respiratory Pathology

• Identify the most important systemic complications in patients with renal pathology
• Identify the problems related to coagulation in patients with CKD and on dialysis
• Establish which drugs used in dentistry are indicated or contraindicated and when bacterial endocarditis prophylaxis should be prescribed
• Propose an action protocol for renal transplant patients
• Identify the most common drugs used in COPD and their adverse effects on the oral cavity
• Recognize the risk situations with the dental treatment of patients with COPD and bronchial asthma
• Acknowledge the peculiarities in the dental management of the asthmatic patient
• Solve a medical emergency situation in the asthmatic patient

Module 5. Dental care in oncological patients. Radio and Chemotherapy. Bone Marrow Transplant

• Establish an update on the concepts and determinants of survival of patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer
• Identify those factors that may condition the appearance or recurrence of oral squamous cell cancer
• Specify the role of the dentist prior to radio-chemotherapy or surgical treatment
• Establish the role of the dentist during to radio-chemotherapy or surgical treatment
• Define the role of the dentist prior to radio-chemotherapy or surgical treatment
• Educate professionals on the role of the dentist as a member of the multidisciplinary oral cancer treatment team
• Define the different treatment and approach options available for patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer

Module 6. The patient with functional diversity in the dental clinic

• Update knowledge on the main characteristics of patients with functional diversity
• Identify the most frequent systemic pathology in patients with functional diversity
• Recognize the most frequent oral and dental pathology in patients with functional diversity
• Propose the treatment modalities in patients with functional diversity
• Establish the main factors for decision making in patients with functional diversity
• Develop competencies for the diagnosis, management and treatment of the different patients with functional diversity
• Present the adaptation of the different dental specialties in these patients

Module 7. Dental care in the elderly patient

• Identify the problems of demographic change worldwide
• Analyze the general physiological and oral cavity changes that occur with age
• Establish guidelines for geriatric assessment of elderly patients and to know the major geriatric syndromes
• Propose treatment and prevention guidelines for the elderly with dry mouth
• Propose conservative dental treatment guidelines for the elderly
• Expose periodontal and preventive treatment guidelines for the elderly
• Present a preventive action protocol for institutionalized seniors

Module 8. Dental Care in Patients with Cardiovascular Pathology

• Identify the medical complications associated with cardiovascular pathologies and their treatment
• Present a protocol for dental care in patients with Heart Failure
• Expose a protocol for dental management in patients with ischemic heart disease
• Guideline a protocol for dental management in patients with Cardiac Arrhythmias disease
• Establish a protocol for dental management in patients with arterial hypertension
• Present a protocol for dental management in patients at risk of bacterial endocarditis
• Propose a protocol for the medical-dental management of possible emergencies that we may have with patients with cardiovascular pathology in the dental office

Module 9. Dental Care in Patients with Hematologic Alterations

• Develop the physiological phenomena that occur during hemostasis
• Identify which coagulation tests should be ordered for dental treatment
• Establish guidelines for the dental treatment of patients treated with antiplatelet agents
• Establish the guidelines for the dental treatment of patients anticoagulated with coumarin derivatives and heparin
• Identify the different types of direct oral anticoagulants and their management in dental treatment
• Define the criteria for safe dental treatment in patients with hemophilia and other congenital pathologies
• Establish guidelines for dental treatment in patients with red blood cell disorders
• Establish guidelines for dental treatment in patients with white blood cell disorders
• Identify the different types of Purpura and their management in dental treatment
• Develop protocols for the control of intraoperative and postoperative bleeding

Module 10. Dental management in immunocompromised patients, patients with psychiatric disorders and in less frequent situations in the dental clinic

• Analyze autoimmune diseases with repercussions in the oral cavity and their management
• Demonstrate the odontological management of the patient with articular prostheses
• Establish the dental patient management in morbid obesity
• Identify the treatment of choice in the patient with sleep disorders
• Identify the main drugs abuse and their impact on the oral cavity
• Establish the management protocol for a patient in palliative care
• Define the concept of gender dysphoria and its impact on dental clinical practice

Deepen when and where you want into the impact of gender dysphoria on clinical dental practice"