Lebanon Dental Colloquium study guide
Lebanon Dental Colloquium · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Lebanon Dental Colloquium is the licensing-style assessment pathway that dentists trained in Lebanon or abroad typically encounter when they seek recognition to practise within the Lebanese dental profession. Candidates usually hold a DDS, DMD or equivalent dental degree and are moving from graduation into supervised practice, returning after training abroad, or preparing for specialty-level recognition. The Lebanon Dental Colloquium study guide has 11 sections and about 3,851 words.
01Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Diagnosis
This domain tests whether you can take a focused history, examine the mucosa and jaws systematically, build a defensible differential and decide when to biopsy, image or refer. Any oral ulcer persisting beyond two weeks without an identifiable cause must be biopsied or referred.
340 words, about 2 min02Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
This domain tests pulpal and apical diagnosis, adhesive dentistry and the technical sequence of root canal treatment, including how you would defend each step if challenged. Pulpal diagnoses: normal, reversible pulpitis, irreversible pulpitis, necrosis.
347 words, about 2 min03Prosthodontics (Fixed and Removable)
This domain tests tooth preparation principles, impression and cementation choices, removable partial denture design and complete denture occlusion, with emphasis on the design decisions examiners can mark objectively. Total occlusal convergence of 10 to 20 degrees gives retention and resistance without over-reducing the tooth.
359 words, about 2 min04Periodontology and Implant Dentistry
This domain tests the 2018 AAP/EFP classification, periodontal risk assessment, non-surgical and surgical therapy, and the distinction between peri-implant health, mucositis and peri-implantitis. Staging (I to IV) uses interdental clinical attachment loss, radiographic bone loss, tooth loss attributable to periodontitis and complexity factors such as probing depth, furcation and vertical defects.
346 words, about 2 min05Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
This domain tests surgical assessment and decision-making: when to extract, when to refer, how to recognise nerve risk, and how to manage odontogenic infection and maxillofacial trauma in a safe sequence. Assess on panoramic imaging with Winter's angulation (mesioangular is most common), Pell and Gregory depth and ramus relationship, and radiographic signs of inferior alveolar nerve proximity: darkening or deflection of the root, narrowing of the root, interruption of the canal wall and diversion of the canal.
360 words, about 2 min06Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
This domain tests growth assessment, cephalometric and space analysis, biomechanical reasoning and retention planning. Examiners reward answers that tie the appliance to the diagnosis and to the patient's growth status.
337 words, about 2 min07Pediatric Dentistry
This domain tests prevention from the first year of life, behaviour guidance, primary molar restorative and pulp decisions, and the trauma rules that differ between primary and permanent teeth. First dental visit by the first birthday or within six months of the first tooth erupting.
393 words, about 2 min08Dental Public Health, Prevention and Epidemiology
This domain tests measurement, survey methods, prevention at population level and the arithmetic of screening. Expect questions that ask you to interpret a number rather than recall a definition.
309 words, about 2 min09Pharmacology
This domain tests dose calculation, drug selection and interactions. Almost every question resolves to a number, a maximum dose or a contraindication.
345 words, about 2 min10Anesthesia and Medical Emergencies in Dentistry
This domain tests whether you can prevent, recognise and treat the emergencies that actually occur in a dental chair, and whether you know the correct drug, route and dose under pressure. Take a medical history and assign an ASA class; check blood pressure, anticoagulant status and glycaemic control.
351 words, about 2 min11Dental Ethics, Professional Practice and Lebanese Health Law
This domain tests informed consent, record keeping, scope of practice, advertising, confidentiality and the Lebanese licensing and disciplinary framework that governs every other domain. Valid consent requires capacity, disclosure of material risks, discussion of alternatives including no treatment, and voluntariness, all documented in the notes.
364 words, about 2 min