Odontological Care

The aim of  study programme - to prepare high quality dental assistants that are able to assist the dentist or odontology specialist, independently perform intra-oral procedures without exceeding limits of their competence, to ensure care and prevention of dental  health, teach to healthy lifestyle and promote  the prestige of the profession. 

Learning outcomes:

Knowledge and ability to apply it. A graduate:

• is aware of the national and international health monitoring policy, normative documents, which regulate the place of work, environment and safety at work and is aware of the limits of professional activity and responsibility;
• is able to integrate knowledge of biomedical science forming perception of human growth, development and health, and knowledge of dental care practice

Research skills. A graduate:

• is able to collect, interpret and store the applied research data necessary for oral health and care and to apply the research results to solve the particular oral care problems and makes suggestions to the colleagues;

Special abilities. A graduate:

• is able to assure control of infections, and follows the requirements of normative documents regulating the job of dental assistant; 
• is able to use the dental equipment, devices, instruments and materials for their intended purpose;
• is able to recognise oral and dental diseases and applies different diagnostic methods for different groups of patients;
• is able to fill in the professional documentation, collects the patient’s life and health anamnesis, and evaluates main vital parameters;
• is able to assist dental practitioners, specialised dental practitioners or dental hygienists performing various procedures of dental treatment;
• is able to operate dental X-ray and diagnostic machines;
• is able to recognise the cases dangerous to life, to respond to them appropriately, and to provide the necessary medical aid;
• is able to teach the patients the rules of healthy life style, rational nutrition, oral care, and to teach them to be responsible for own health;
• is able to plan, coordinate and control the organisational processes of the institution providing dental services (registration of patients and employees’ activities, their coordination, advertising, supply of aids, etc.), and applies modern information technologies

Social skills. A graduate:

• is able to communicate and cooperate efficiently with health care and other specialists and the patients, creating the full-rate relationships and solving the oral health problems and to create new ideas;
• is able to express own thoughts in writing and orally, to communicate in the professional environment of oral care specialist in Lithuanian and at least one foreign language;

Personal abilities. A graduate:

• is able to assess critically own professional practice, is able to solve the problems independently, and to act in particular clinically defined situation using the practical skills;
• is able to collect and systemise information, to use the advanced technologies and information systems in practical activities, and to handle the confidential information properly.

Study subjects (modules), practical training:

Full-time study

Freely chosen subjects are selected from the List of Freely Chosen Subjects and their descriptions.