Orthodontics

Orthodontics

„Orthodontics“ is taught in the following semesters: VII, VIII, IX and X.

TRAINING COURSE ANNOTATION:
The training course in Clinical Orthodontics provides knowledge, skills and competence in diagnosis, prevention and clinical procedures, necessary for comprehensive organization and management of the dental care.

OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE PROGRAM:
To provide young specialists with clinical and diagnostic knowledge and competence for the implement of preventive and therapeutic activities in the dental care management according to the contemporary European standards for medical care.

COURSE PROGRAM TASKS:

• To equip young specialists with knowledge and skills necessaryfor preventive and diagnostic orthodontic management of patients and to participate in orthodontic treatments with moderate severity;
• To bequalified for planning complex treatments involving periodontal-orthodontic, prosthetic-orthodontic and orthodontic-surgical collaboration;
• To identify and diagnose the orthodontic treatment need and properly refer the patients to other specialists;
• To control the retention period of the orthodontic treatment and carry out conservative-periodontal sanation before the beginning of an orthodontic treatment.

AUXILIARY TEACHING IMPLEMENTS:
Multimedia presentations, graphs, tests, orthodontic clinical cases for discussion and interpretation, models of therapeutic orthodontic appliances.

PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS:
Before commencing their education in Orthodontics, the students are required to acquire basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, pediatric dental medicine and preclinical prosthetic dental medicine.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
The young specialists are qualified to identify orthodontic malocclusions in early childhood age and to carry out primary orthodontic prevention. They are able to detect early symptoms of orthodontic discrepanciesand malocclusion occurrence and to appoint the proper age for referral to an orthodontic specialist. The dental medicine specialist may participate in the control of mild dental Class I malocclusions with non-extraction treatment; to maintain and sanate the dentition before and during the comprehensive orthodontic treatment.

ACADEMIC GRADING MODE:
Present control, participation in topic presentations, written seminars, written colloquium in test form, practical examination, theoretical and oral examination; state examination.

1. Grade forming – complex evaluation:

• activity of the student during the educational course in Orthodontics;
• grading of the patients’ orthodontic dossier documented by the student;
• practical examination grade;
• theoretical examination grade.

2. Aspects of the grade forming:

• Part 1 – participation in discussions and clinical case reviews; – test examination;
• Part 2 – practical examination grade;
• Part 3 – theoretical examination grade.

Present control – clinical cases discussion of the students’ group.
Practical examination – biometrical analysis of orthodontic study models in occlusion and wire element bending (Adams’s clasp, Schwarz’s clasp or protrusion spring). Exam duration: 1h 30 min.; discussion and grading – 1h 30 min.
Theoretical examination – one written and two oral questions.
Other – one written colloquium and one written seminar each semester.
State Examination– entry stop test, published in the web site of the Orthodontics Department; two theoretical questions; orthodontic clinical case.

TOPIC OUTLINE OF THE DISCIPLINE:

Semester 7

• Impression taking and diagnostic models casting;
• Acquisition of basic orthodontic diagnostic methods – biometrical and radiographical.

Semester 8

• Fabrication of therapeutical orthodontic appliances and introduction to the basic requirements for laboratory fabrication;
• Space maintainers and interceptive appliances;
• Orthodontic treatment plan.

Semester 9

• Growth and development of the facial skeleton. Growth sites and centres. Growth peaks and completion of the facial growth;
• Patient admission;
• Centric occlusion taking, orthodontic analyses submission. Control examination of patients in treatment;
• Extraoral appliances. Clinical adjustment of orthodontic appliances. Case presentation in front of the students in the group;
• Control examination of patients in treatment.

Semester 10

• Interdisciplinary treatment of the orthodontic malocclusions and the cleft palate patients;
• Preparation and submission of orthodontic analyses. Therapeutic appliance planning;
• Control examination of patients in treatment;
• Collaboration of the orthodontist with prosthetists and periodontists in the treatment of malocclusions;
• Appliance adjustment. Treatment control;
• Combined orthodontic-surgical treatment.

NEW

In connection with the September remedial session in Orthodontics, which will be held on 12.09.23 for students taught in the Bulgarian language, please be informed that the examinations in orthodontic prevention and practical examination will be held on the same date of 8.00 am on the 7th floor in FDM - Sofia. Please be at the indicated location at 7.45 am.

The Orthodontics exam for all announced dates will be held at 8,00 a.m. on the 7th floor of the Faculty of Dental Medicine - Sofia. Please be at the above mentioned place at 7,45 a.m.

IMPORTANT !!! 
The state exam in Orthodontics for students of the 6th year of dental medicine studying in English begins at 10:00 a.m. on the following dates:

-18, 20, 24, 27.04.2023;

-02, 04, 11.05.2023.

DEAR STUDENTS,

THE STATE EXAMINATION IN ORTHODONTICS WILL BE HELD ON THE 7TH FLOOR IN FDM - SOFIA, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE FOLLOWING DATES:

RE-SIT DATE FOR PRACTICAL EXAM AND ORTHODONTIC PREVENTION EXAM - 
09/27/2022, 8:00 a.m. ,  7th floor of FDM - Sofia.

Dear students,

The semester exam consists of a written test with 45 questions and 2 oral questions. The test will be held on the date of the exam at 8.00 am in I and II halls /according to the schedule / for all groups on the particular date. Afterwards the exam continues on the 7th floor in the seminar halls of the Department of Orthodontics. Additional instructions will be given to you on the date .

EXAM SCHEDULE BY DATES:

14.06.22 г. – 1 –ST HALL FDM
15.06.22 г. – 1 –ST HALL FDM
17.06.22 г. – 1 –ST HALL FDM

12.07.22 г. – 1 –ST HALL FDM
13.07.22 г. – 1 –ST HALL FDM
14.07.22 г. – 2 –ND HALL FDM
15.07.22 г. – 1 –ST HALL FDM