Institute of Anatomy

CLINICAL OROFACIAL ANATOMY (B81158)
for students of the 3rd year of dentistry

Venue: Institute of Anatomy of The First Faculty of Medicine, Prague 2, U Nemocnice 3, 128 00, Czech Republic

Head of Course: Assist. Prof. Andrej Shbat, Ph.D.

Academic year: 2025 - 2026

Total number of teaching hours: 30, Credits: 3 EC

Curricular timing and duration: The course is taught during the summer semester of the third study year of dentistry and contains the following parts: seminars (15 hours) and one dissection block (15 hours). Attendance at seminars and dissection block is obligatory.

Aims: To reiterate and complete the anatomical structures and terms relevant to clinical work of dentists; to try out preparational procedures in the head and neck regions using the autopsy material; further (in selected preparations), to demonstrate relationships between the structures of the orofacial region as a basis for surgical approaches, for performance in the intensive care, for physical examinations, and examinations using imaging methods.

Lectures: Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; weeks 3 – 8 of the summer semester; a small lecture hall: topographical anatomy of the head and neck, basic data about development and aging of the orofacial structures, biomechanics of the temporomandibular joint, masticatory muscles and splanchnocranium, anatomy of tooths, gingiva and periodontium. (Seminars introduce clinical aspects of the respective regions of head and neck.)

Dissection block: Dissection and demonstration of head and neck structures April 23 – 29, 2026 from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Thu – Wed; 5 days); The block is closed by the credit.

Requirements for receiving the credit:
a) obligatory attendance and participation in seminars and dissection course,
b) to pass oral test given at the end of the block.

Examination (oral): has two parts:
a) practical demonstrations of selected organs including their X-ray, MR and CT pictures,
b) theoretical part of exam is based on the list of questions.

Content of Clinical Anatomy for study of Dentistry: Gross, topographic and clinical anatomy of the head and neck.

Knowledge and skills to be acquired: detailed anatomical knowledge of orofacial apparatus as anatomical backround for surgical performances protecting life; knowledge of face and neck dysplasias and anaesthesia approaches, tographic description of the head and neck.

Recommended textbooks - selected chapters:

W.R. Profitt, H.W. Fields, D.M. Sarver: Contemporary Orthodontics, 5th edition, Elsevier, Mosby 2012
Baker E.W., editor - based on the work of Schuenke M., Schulte E., Schumacher U.: Anatomy for Dental Medicine (Latin nomenclature), Thieme 2016
Radlanski, RJ., Wesker, KH.: The Face. Pictorial atlas of Clinical Anatomy. Amazon Book Review
Berkowitz et al.: Oral Anatomy, Histology and Embryology. 3rd Edition, Mosby 2002
Woelfel, Scheid: Dental Anatomy, 6th ed. Williams & Wilkins, 2002
Platzer, W., Fritsch H., Kuehnel W., Kahle W., Frotscher M.: Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy in 3 volumes (1. Locomotor system; 2. Internal organs, 3. Nervous system and sensory organs), Stuttgart, New York 2014 Thieme

Complementary textbooks and Atlases:

Klepáček I., Shbat A., Helekal I.: Pictorial Atlas of Structures of the Orofacial System with Developmental and Clinical Remarks. First edition, Prague, Galén, 2024, 101 p., ISBN 9788074927140
Grim, M., Naňka, O., Helekal, I.: Atlas of Human Anatomy II/ Atlas anatomie člověka, Grada, Praha, 2017
Weber, T.: Memorix Zahnmedizin (Memorix of Dental Medicine) Thieme, 2010
Feneis, Dauber: Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy 2007 Georg Thieme
Snell: Clinical Anatomy for Medical Students, Williams and Wilkins 2004
Moore, Agur: Essential Clinical Anatomy, Williams and Wilkins 2002
Seichert V: Little Anatomical Atlas. Praha 1995
Lang J: Clinical Anatomy of the Masticatory Apparatus and Peripharyngeal Spaces. Stuttgart, Thieme, 1995
C. S. White, J.M. Pharoah: Oral Radiology: Principles and Interpretation (5th ed.) 2003, Mosby
M. Bath-Balogh: Workbook for Illustrated Dental Embryology, Histology, and Anatomy Revised Reprint, (2nd ed.) 2005, Saunders
E. Whaites: Essentials of Dental Radiography and Radiology (4th ed.) 2006 Churchill Livingstone.
Ch M. Dofka: Dental Terminology, Thomson Delmar Learning, 2000
Neugebauer, J., Zöller J. E.: Cone beam Volumetric Imaging in Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine, 2nd ed., Quitessence Publ., 2013
E. Whaites: Essentials of Dental Radiography and Radiology (4th ed.) 2006 Churchill Livingstone
Tillman, B.: Farbatlas der Anatomie Zahnmedicin-Humanmedizin Georg Thieme Verlag, 1997
Šedý, J.: Stomatologie 1st ed., Triton 2012

Prague, February 20, 2026

Assist. Prof. Andrej Shbat, Ph.D.

Prof. Ondřej Naňka, M.D., Ph.D.

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