Dental care for patients with special needs

Education facts

Code: 3OD046

The course is given for exchange students within the dentistry programme, during the 9th semester. Clinical aspects of the physiology of respiration and circulation. Basic cardiology, lung medicine, haematology, and endocrinology and their clinical importance for the dental treatment. Somatic and psychiatric diseases, their treatment and their importance for the clinical assessment and treatment decision of the odontological treatment of patients in different ages. Dental care of psychiatric ill patients. Clinical aspects of medical risk assessment. Anaesthesiology and sedation of patients with dental fear.

Entry requirements

The student must have completed courses that correspond to previous courses carried out during the 1st-8th semester within the dentistry programme.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Dental care for patients with special needs

  Umeå University

  Start date: 18 January 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %