Why you should apply
The experience and quality of the course's speakers/instructors, who are widely recognized internationally, provide a learning environment with the biggest names in the field.
The course will be developed by combining clinical and pre-clinical practice with a solid and comprehensive scientific foundation.
The intensive postgraduate course in sports dentistry has the following functional content: mastering knowledge of the impact of high-performance sports on oral health, the impacts of oral diseases on the well-being of athletes, and the risks that result from them.
Sports dentistry encompasses the ability to assess the oral needs of sports, prevent and treat orofacial injuries, offer personalized protective devices, manage dental emergencies in the context of high-performance sports, understand the influence of nutrition and intense training on oral health, treat specific sports-related conditions, collaborate with other health professionals, consider the training environment, and contribute to post-treatment recovery without interfering with athletic performance, as well as equipping the candidate to master transdisciplinary areas.
Sports dentistry, as an organized set of complementary or instrumental knowledge in relation to the functional content of Dentistry, encompasses knowledge of the impact of high-performance sports on the health of the stomatognathic system, the impact on the well-being of athletes and the risks that arise from it; the evaluation of the specificities of the stomatognathic system in sports, prevention and treatment of orofacial injuries, provision, use and handling of personalized protective devices appropriate to each sport.
Sports Dentistry includes the following techniques and skills:
- Promoting homeostasis of the stomatognathic system, in harmony with the athlete.
- Preventing traumatic injuries.
- Managing dental emergencies in the context of high-performance sports.
- Understanding the influence of nutrition and intense training on oral health, treating specific conditions related to sports, and collaborating with other health professionals from various medical and sports fields.
- Consider the training environment and contribute to post-treatment recovery without interfering with athletic performance.
- Sports dentistry tends to correlate and interpret assessments from various medical-sports areas, aiming to prevent decreased performance.
- Know the timing of clinical procedures in high-performance athletes, as well as the athlete's human psychology.
- Understand the specificities of each sport and adapt medical-dental treatments accordingly.
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Study Plan
Embark on this journey.
- Module 1 - The Importance of Dentistry in the Athlete's Sporting Life
- Module 2 – Sports Physiotherapy – Functional Assessment
- Module 3 – Temporomandibular Dysfunction and Sport
- Module 4 – Sports Physiology
- Module 5 – Sports Dentistry I
- Module 6 – Sports Dentistry II
- Module 7 – Sports Nutrition
- Module 8 – Sports Psychology
- Module 9 – Sports Medicine and Sports Pharmacology
- Module 10 – Sleep in Sports Dentistry
- Module 11 – Neuromodulation of Pain in Athletes
- Module 12 – Laser Therapy and Ozone Therapy and their usefulness in Sports Dentistry