Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Prof. Dr. Mehmet Birol ÖZEL
Lecturer Nevin KAPTAN AKAR

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Express the history and the science of orthodontics in general terms.
2) Express the growth and development concepts.
3) Explain the growth and development processes in the bone and the basic principles of the growth of bone tissue.
4) Express the growth sites and their activities which function in jaw development.
5) Explain the embryological development of head-face-jaw skeleton.
6) Express the prenatal formation and postnatal growth and development processes of the head and face.
7) Comprehends the importance of normal growth and development processes of head-face-jaw skeleton for the other systems of the body from the view of orthodontics.
8) Explain the effects of craniofacial development on dentitions and occlusion.
9) Explain the prenatal and postnatal growth and development processes of the maxilla.
10) Explain the prenatal growth and development processes of the mandible.
11) Explain the postnatal growth and development processes of the mandible.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6
Learning Outcomes
	1	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	2	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	3	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	4	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	5	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	6	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	7	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	8	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	9	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	10	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High
	11	Middle	High	High	Middle	High	High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

The contents of the course are the growth and developmental processes of face, head and jaws including the characteristics of normal growth, the growth potential and rate and the relationship between orthodontics, beginning from the prenatal period until adulthood

Weekly Schedule

1) The history, definition and the objectives of orthodontics
2) Explanation of growth and development and the relationship between orthodontics, the factors affecting growth and development, the principles human organism obeys
3) Basic principles of prenatal development of hard tissues (head face jaw skeleton)
4) Growth and development of bone, endochondral ossification, intramembranous ossification
5) The growth centers and growth sites and their functions, epiphyseal plate and epiphyseal cartilage, sutures, synchondrosis'
6) Growth activity on bone surface, periosteum and the role of periosteal areas in growth, endosteum and the role of endosteal areas in growth
7) The activity of special growth sites functioning in jaw development, condyle cartilage, periodontal membrane, processus alveolaris'
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) The basic principles of the growth of bony organs (relocation, remodelling, cortical drift)
10) The basic principles of the growth of bony organs (continues; relocation) and functional matrix theory
11) Prenatal development, formation of stomadeum, upper face formation, the branchial system, primary and secondary palate formation, the formation of mandible and tongue
12) Prenatal formation and postnatal growth and development of head face jaw skeleton, the effects of the development of this system on dentitions, occlusion and other systems
13) Prenatal and postnatal growth and development of the maxilla
14) Prenatal growth and development of the mandible
15) Postnatal growth and development of the mandible
16) Final examination

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Brain Storming

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Work Placement(s)