Histology and Embryology for Dentistry

Education of students of dentistry in our Department covers 85 hours of instruction divided into:

  • lectures: 10 hours
  • seminars: 25 hours
  • practical classes: 50 hours

Announcements 2023/2024

Dear Students, we would like to inform you that the Department of Histology does not plan to organize the 4th term of the intermediate examination in general histology, embryology and microscopic anatomy.

5 EDD program

Final Examination in Histology, Cytology & Embryology

Practical examination will be held on June 25th,2024 (Room #1).  Only students who are credited are admitted to the examination.   

Students for the Practical Examination report for the practical exam to the Anatomicum building, staircase B - from the yard at 8:50 (students will NOT be allowed to enter the Anatomicum building via the main entrance and earlier that 8:50)

Students will be admitted to the practical exam according to the list in alphabetical order.

We kindly ask you to prepare student ID cards and pens.

Students who failed practical examination are allowed to take MCQ but they will get final mark only after they retake slides.

Marks will be written into index as retaken (second date).

The list of the groups 

Recomended textbooks:

1. Junqueira’s Basic Histology: Text and Atlas, last edition

2. Gartner L. P., “Textbook of Histology”, 2021, Elsevier, 5th Edition,

3. Sadler T. W. “Langman’s Medical Embryology”, last edition

4. Daniel J. Chiego, Jr.: “Essentials of Oral Histology and Embryology”: A Clinical Approach, Elsevier 5th Edition, 2018.

5. Medical genetics by Jorde Lynn B., Carey John C., Bamshad Michael J. Mosby Elsevier, last edition.

Recomended additional reading:

       1. Nanci A. “Ten Cate’s - Oral Histology”, Elsevier, last edition.

Attention for Students ED,

 Students borrowing slides as a set for either intermediate examination or final examination have to pay a deposit in amount 6 PLN/slide. For borrowing a microscope the student has to pay a deposit in amount of 150 PLN. If the slides or microscope are lost or damaged, the student will be debited with an appropriate amount. Each group has the right to borrow 1 set of slides and 1 microscope

Microscopes and slides are available in the room # 10 of the Department Histology and Embryology  9:00 am – 13:30 pm (working days only).

For 5-yers program:

          I semester – 39 pieces x 6 pln = 234 PLN (+ 150 = 384 PLN)

         II semester – 40 pieces x 6 = 240 PLN (+ 150 = 390 PLN)

Final examination – 56 pieces x 6 = 336 PLN (+ 150 = 486 PLN)

150 pln = MICROSCOPE