The growing scientific-technical developments in the field of dentistry require professionals to integrate them with knowledge of the humanistic sciences in order to avoid a fragmented view of the patient. The Anthropology course aims to provide students with the skills and resources needed to acquire a coherent, complete picture of the person and to a recognition of the plurality of their existential dimensions; physical, psychological, social and spiritual, and relate them accordingly. The subject will provide the students with a better understanding of the necessary coordination between the technical and the human dimension of their profession. The understanding of such coordination will serve to overcome the limitations of a purely technical response to disease and illness and will also contribute to improving the humanistic aspects of the professional skills of the students, meeting in this way society’s demands.

Concepts such as health, illness, pain or suffering require, to be properly understood, a global view of the human being which must take into account its vulnerability and its dignity. The subject of Anthropology will give students a profound and rigorous reflection on the nature of the human being, its possibilities and limits, a reflection that the practice of a health profession inevitably requires.

The practice of odontology raises issues that require reflection into the person, and their possibilities and limitations, to have been undertaken; issues addressed in a rigorous manner by Anthropology .