Degree in Dentistry

CE1: Module: Basic Biomedical Sciences Relevant to Dentistry - Know the biomedical sciences on which dentistry is based in order to ensure proper oral care. These sciences should include appropriate content of embryology, anatomy, histology and physiology of the human body. Genetics, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Immunology.
CE2: Module: Basic Biomedical Sciences Relevant to Dentistry - Know the morphology and function of the stomatognathic system, including appropriate specific content of embryology, anatomy, histology and physiology.
CE3: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Understand the scientific method and be able to critically evaluate established knowledge and new information.
CE4: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the scientific principles of sterilisation, disinfection and antisepsis to prevent cross infection in dental practice.
CE5: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the danger of ionising radiation and its effects on biological tissues, as well as the legislation regulating its use. Run dental radiodiagnostic facilities.
CE6: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Take dental radiographs, interpret the images obtained and be familiar with other relevant diagnostic imaging techniques.
CE7: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Be familiar with clinical and laboratory diagnostic procedures and tests, know their reliability and diagnostic validity and be competent to interpret their results.
CE8: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Recognise normal and pathological oral conditions and be able to analyse semiological data.
CE9: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Identify the main reason for consultation and the history of the current disease. Compile a general medical history of the patient and a medical record that accurately reflects the patient's records.
CE10: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the behavioural and communication sciences that facilitate the practice of dentistry.
CE11: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Handle, differentiate and select appropriate materials and instruments in dentistry.
CE12: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Be familiar with dental biomaterials: handling, properties, indications, allergies, bio-compatibility, toxicity, waste disposal and environmental impact.
CE13: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Possess knowledge of the national health system and the basics of healthcare legislation, clinical management and the correct use of health resources, with an understanding of the importance of the role of the dentist in the field of primary healthcare.
CE14: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know how to use basic dental equipment and instruments.
CE15: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Apply the principles of ergonomics in dental work, both at an individual level and within the work team when appropriate, as well as the principles of prevention of occupational risks associated with dental practice.
CE16: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Provide a comprehensive approach to oral care and apply the principles of health promotion and prevention of oral diseases.
CE17: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Educate and motivate patients in the prevention of oral diseases, control pathogenic oral habits, instruct them on correct oral hygiene, on dietary and nutritional measures and, in short, on all methods for maintaining oral health.
CE18: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the effects of tobacco on oral health and participate in measures that help the patient who wants to stop smoking. Likewise, know the complex interactions between environmental, social and behavioural factors and oral and general health.
CE19: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the procedures to diagnose oral health in the community and know how to interpret the results.
CE20: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Understand the impact of demographic and epidemiological trends on the practice of dentistry.
CE21: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Have knowledge of the organisation and provision of oral health care in the community, both in private and public services, as well as of general health care and of the role of the dentist in these areas.
CE22: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Develop and implement oral health programmes and be aware of the inter-institutional and inter-professional coordination required for their implementation.
CE23: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the ethical, legal and administrative principles that regulate the dental profession and their application in clinical management and practice, and know the organisation, competences and functions of professional corporations. Fill in all kinds of medical-legal documents and records.
CE24: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Know the role of the dentist within the health professions and work with other health professionals and other members of the dental team.
CE25: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Recognise that the patient is the centre of attention and that all interactions, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment planning and implementation and maintenance, should be in the patient's best interest, avoiding discrimination of any kind and respecting confidentiality.
CE26: Module: Introduction to Dentistry - Identify signs and attitudes that may suggest abuse.
CE27: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Know the general processes of illness, healing and restoring, including infection, inflammation, bleeding and clotting, scarring, trauma and immune system disorders, degeneration, neoplasia, metabolic disorders and genetic disorders.
CE28: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Know the general pathological characteristics of the diseases and disorders that affect organic systems.
CE29: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Know the lesional bases of the oral manifestations of systemic diseases.
CE30: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Know the general and clinical pharmacology of use in dental practice.
CE31: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Know the pharmacological basis of the different anaesthetic techniques, both local and general, as well as the role of sedation and general anaesthesia for handling the dental patient.
CE32: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Know and deal with the most frequent medical emergencies in dental practice and basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques.
CE33: Module: General Medical-Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics - Have appropriate knowledge of human nutrition, in particular the relationship of nutritional habits and diet with the maintenance of health and the prevention of oral disease.
CE34: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform basic treatments of oral-dental pathologies in patients of all ages. Therapeutic procedures must be based on minimally invasive techniques and on a global and integrated approach to oral health care.
CE35: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Diagnose, plan and apply a general multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated treatment of limited complexity in patients of all ages and conditions and in patients with special needs (diabetic, hypertensive, oncological, transplanted, immunosuppressed, anticoagulated, among others) or disabled.
CE36: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Take and interpret radiographs and other image-based procedures relevant to dental practice.
CE37: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Make diagnostic casts, mount them and take interocclusal records.
CE38: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Determine and identify the patients' aesthetic requirements and the possibilities of meeting their concerns.
CE39: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Identify patients that require special care, recognising their characteristics and peculiarities.
CE40: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Assess the motor and sensory function of the mouth, jaws and surrounding tissues.
CE41: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform limited procedures of invasive diagnostic techniques on soft tissues (biopsies).
CE42: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - For providing adequate treatment the dentist must be competent to:
CE43: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Prescribe drugs appropriately, knowing their contraindications, interactions, systemic effects and effects on other organs.
CE44: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Apply loco-regional anaesthesia techniques.
CE45: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Prepare and isolate the operating field.
CE46: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Identify, assess and assist with medical emergencies that may occur during clinical practice and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques.
CE47: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Manage acute infections, including prescription and simple surgical aspects.
CE48: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Identify and respond to any dental emergency.
CE49: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform both medical and surgical treatments of common oral soft tissue diseases.
CE50: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform simple surgical procedures: removal of erupted temporary and permanent teeth, fractured or retained roots and uncomplicated surgical removal of unerupted teeth and simple pre-prosthetic surgery procedures.
CE51: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Treat dental-alveolar trauma in temporary and permanent teeth.
CE52: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Treat the inflammatory processes of the periodontal and/or peri-implant tissues both pharmacologically and surgically, including the techniques of supra- and subgingival periodontal instrumentation.
CE53: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Assess and treat the patient with caries or other non-carious dental pathology and be able to use all materials aimed at restoring the shape, function and aesthetics of teeth in patients of all ages.
CE54: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Design, prepare teeth, prescribe, record, perform clinical trials and place and put into service indirect restorations: inlays, laminate veneers and single crowns.
CE55: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform surgical treatment of destructive processes and traumatic dental-alveolar injuries.
CE56: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform endodontic treatments and apply procedures to preserve pulp vitality.
CE57: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform conventional aesthetic procedures from a multidisciplinary perspective.
CE58: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Treat both partial and total edentulism, including biological design (specific design features), tooth preparation, record keeping, clinical testing and fitting of partial and complete removable prostheses, single tooth-supported bridges and single prostheses on implants, both removable and fixed, including placement and operation.
CE59: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Draw up prescriptions for customised medical devices, dental prostheses and orthodontic and dentofacial orthopaedic appliances.
CE60: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Perform non-surgical treatment of temporomandibular disorders and orofacial pain.
CE61: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Carry out the oral-dental treatment of child patients and recognise their characteristics and peculiarities.
CE62: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Identify and correct oral habits that may cause or exacerbate malocclusions.
CE63: Module: Dental Pathology and Therapeutics - Plan, determine specific design features, records, prescription, clinical trials, placement and clinical adjustment for preparing fixed and removable space maintainers and interceptive orthodontic techniques, as well as removable active elements intended to move teeth or correct crossbites.
CE64: Module: Supervised Work Placement and Bachelor's Thesis - Pre-professional work placement with a final assessment of competences, which will allow students to acquire professional values, communication skills, clinical reasoning, clinical management and critical judgment. Placements will involve clinical work with patients of all ages and conditions, in an integrated manner and under appropriate supervision.
CE65: Module: Supervised Work Placement and Bachelor's Thesis - Bachelor's Thesis: Cross-disciplinary subject area involving work related to different subjects.
CE66: Be familiar with general concepts of the human body, integrated by parts and functional systems, in health and vital periods.
CE67: Be familiar with the systems and organs that make up the human body and their functionality and interrelationship.
CE68: Know the embryological evolutionary process of the body in general. Know the developmental periods.
CE69: Know the periods of development of the cranio-facial and the stomatognathic systems.
CE70: Know the functional systems of the human body and the muscular, cardio-circulatory and vascular, digestive, urogenital, endocrine and nervous systems.
CE71: Know the biomechanical aspects of the skull-head, neck-face and bone-muscle interactions.
CE72: Know the characteristics of human dentition.
CE73: Know the eruptive processes of temporary and permanent teeth. Know how to study occlusion.
CE74: Know the specific dental support, protection, vascularisation and innervation systems.
CE75: Develop critical and self-critical capacity in the approach to and resolution of problems.
CE76: Be able to work in a team and develop skills in personal relationships.
CE77: Understand the concepts needed to study the cell as a fundamental unit of living beings.
CE78: Know where cellular functions are carried out and integrated and where the response of the living being to environmental stimuli is reflected.
CE79: Know the cytological concepts that lay the structural foundations of the cell and its processes of proliferation and differentiation to make it possible to understand and study the subsequent tissue level.
CE80: Acquire the methodological skills to use the microscope and diagnose cellular structures.
CE81: Know how to use information and communication technology.
CE82: Have critical and self-critical capacity to approach and resolve problems following the scientific method.
CE83: Acquire basic training for research in the field of cell biology.
CE84: Identify and quantify blood components and their functions.
CE85: Describe the mechanisms to prevent blood loss.
CE86: Know the properties of the myocardium.
CE87: Know the factors that regulate blood flow.
CE88: Identify lung volumes and capacities.
CE89: Describe the transport of gases in the blood and the factors that regulate it.
CE90: Know the mechanisms of kidney tubular transport and excretion of waste.
CE91: Know and evaluate diuresis.
CE92: Know the mechanisms of food digestion and absorption.
CE93: Know the role of the endocrine system in coordinating the various functions of the body.
CE94: Know and understand the structure and characteristics of the different types of microorganisms that make up the flora of the oral cavity.
CE95: Know the microbiological characteristics of the pathogens responsible for the most frequent oral infections.
CE96: Understand the main mechanisms of transmission, colonisation and pathogenesis of the microorganisms involved in oral diseases.
CE97: Know and understand the role of systemic pathogens in the development of oral diseases and their transmission capacity during clinical practice.
CE98: Understand the mechanisms of immune response to infection and the impact of immunodeficiency processes on the development of oral diseases.
CE99: Know the procedures for controlling oral infection through the proper use of antiseptics and antimicrobials.
CE100: Know and understand the advances in research of oral infectious pathology.
CE101: Be familiar with surgical instruments and materials; asepsis and sterilisation; preparation of the patient: surgical field; incisions and flaps; suture; biopsy.
CE102: Be familiar with anesthesia in dentistry: nerve conduction block; types of oral loco-regional anesthesia; complications; sedation and general anesthesia.
CE103: Know the general principles of exodontia. Complex extractions. Accidents and complications after tooth extraction.
CE104: Have knowledge, skills and attitudes for treating tooth impaction. Impacted third molars. Supernumerary teeth. Impacted canines.
CE105: Know the etiopathogenesis, clinical forms, diagnostic techniques and therapeutics of periapical lesions.
CE106: Know the etiopathogenesis and clinical forms of dental infection.
CE107: Know the etiopathogenesis and clinical forms of dental infection. Surgical treatment of benign and malignant soft tissue tumours. Pathology of the salivary glands.
CE108: Know, describe and apply the general principles of dental implants. Anatomy and radiology applied to implantology. Diagnosis. Basic surgical techniques.
CE109: Perform simple surgical procedures: extraction of temporary teeth.
CE110: Have knowledge of the anatomy, histology, physiology and function of periodontal tissues in both health and disease situations.
CE111: Have knowledge of the etiology, progression and evolution of periodontal diseases, taking into account their bacteriological and immunological characteristics, paying special attention to those local or systemic factors that may alter their course.
CE112: Be able to teach patients the etiology and prevention of periodontal diseases and motivate them to take responsibility for periodontal treatment and health.
CE113: Be able to perform basic periodontal treatment and simple surgical procedures.
CE114: Be aware of the importance of periodontal tissue management in smile aesthetics.
CE115: Be able to evaluate the results of periodontal treatment and to identify, where appropriate, complex periodontal treatment needs.
CE116: Be able to understand peri-implant tissue diseases and identify their etiology, pathogenesis, progression, risk factors and prevention.
CE117: Diagnose, plan and carry out a general multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated treatment of limited complexity in patients with special needs (diabetic, hypertensive, oncological, transplanted, immunosuppressed, anticoagulated, among others) or disabled.
CE118: Describe the characteristics of nerve conduction.
CE119: Know the motor and sensory functions of the cortex.
CE120: Have knowledge of mechanoreceptive and thermal sensitivity.
CE121: Describe the functions of the different senses.
CE122: Know the mechanisms of pain production.
CE123: Know and describe referred pain and the mechanisms of analgesia.
CE124: Know the periodontium and periodontal receptors.
CE125: Have knowledge of sensitivity in the processes of dental eruption.
CE126: Have knowledge of chewing.
CE127: Describe the mechanisms of occlusion.
CE128: Have knowledge of microbiological diagnostic procedures and tests, know their clinical utility and acquire the ability to interpret their results.