Master’s in Geriatric Dentistry, Special Patients and Medically-Compromised Patients
Unit 1: Theory and clinical cases (Blended Learning)
Practical workshop in the lab
Students will take part in a number of workshops to acquire skills for techniques that can be applied in clinical practice: tongue biopsies, rotary instrumentation, prosthesis design, using dental lasers, etc.
Module 2: Clinical Care for Patients in Institutions
The practical side of this module includes offering care to patients with disabilities or special needs, or elderly patients in nursing homes.
Clinical Care in Hospitals
Care in Nursing Homes
Module 3: Assistance in Dental Clinics
Assistance in dental clinics
Students will attend dental clinics, under the supervision of members of the teaching faculty, to deal with all kinds of pathologies related to surgery, periodontics, conservative dentistry, endodontics, prosthetics, implantology, endodontics, and so on. They will apply the appropriate treatments for each specific profile, for elderly, fragile, or disabled patients, and for polymedicated and medically-compromised patients.
Clinical care for oral lesions (Oral Medicine)
In this sub-module, students will act under the supervision of teaching staff to diagnose and treat patients, with drugs or by means of biopsy techniques, when they present lesions in the oral mucosa as a result of local or systemic pathologies, whatever their age.
Courses and conferences
Attendance and an oral presentation is compulsory at SEGER; attendance and a poster presentation is compulsory at SEMO; attendance is compulsory at SEOEME and, where appropriate, students may attend other relevant courses.
Module 4: Treatments under nitrous oxide sedation
Care for patients under nitrous oxide sedation
In this module, students will carry out all kinds of dental treatment on anxious elderly patients, disabled patients or patients with complex medical conditions that require management through oral or intravenous sedation techniques, and patients who require treatment under nitrous oxide sedation.
Nitrose oxide sedation, CPR and AED Training Couse
- Research ethics and methodology
- Science communication
- Research protocol
- Final Master’s Project
- Care for institutionalised patients
- Dental clinic
- Dentistry theory
- Conscious sedation and basic AED
- Dr Francesc Abella
- Dr Oswaldo Cava
- Dr Lidia Darder
- Dr Víctor Gil
- Dr Gerardo Gómez
- Dr Celia Haya
- Dr Anna Mañés
- Dr David Martin
- Dr Rosa Moreno
- Dr Belisa Olmo
- Dr Jordi Ortega
- Dr Marta Palanques
- Dr Manuel Ribera
- Dr Miguel Zabalza
- Dr Judith Guasch
- Dr Blanca Paniagua
- Dr Ángela Mayoral
- Dr Guillermo Doria
This programme has a significant component of clinical work. For this reason, you must have the equipment detailed below.
At the beginning of the course, companies supplying these items will visit the faculty, and usually offer special discounts for students.
The work will be done in pairs, therefore some of the material can be shared (e.g. camera). Although this is an option, we recommend you have your own equipment.
General equipment for daily use:
- PC or Apple laptop.
- Keynote or PowerPoint presentation software
- Pen drive of at least 16 GB
Clinical materials:
The University Dental Clinic (CUO) provides uniforms, but you need to provide your own appropriate footwear. We supply the necessary consumables for patient care (alginates, silicones, sutures, drape, etc.) and the surgical kits.
Other material:
- Intraoral mirrors and spacers
- Digital-SLR camera + macro lens + ring flash
- Artex type semi-adjustable articulator.
Rotary material:
- Midwest (M4) dental turbine and adaptor - contra-angle.
- Handpiece
- Micromotor
- 2 x phosphorus plates for X-rays compatible with the Planmeca system
To access the CUO, the student must bring:
- Personal protection face screen
- Full protection glasses, except in the case of wearing corrective glasses or magnifying glasses. In this case the full protection glasses are not necessary. All other material of special protection will be provided by the clinic.

