Dental CE Course: Pediatric Dentistry

After completion of the course you'll be able to:

Early Dental Intervention

1. Identify some common dental abnormalities that occur in pre‑term and LBW infants.

2. List various elements that a dentist should look for while taking a child's history.

3. Identify the particular aspects of extraoral and intraoral examination.

4. Describe the best position to examine an infant or a toddler.

5. After a careful examination of the child assess the level of risk for caries.

Behavioral Management For a Child in the Dental Setting

6. Describe different types of child temperaments.

7. Discuss the 5 anxiety‑producing times during a dental visit.

8. State the different non‑pharmacological behavioral techniques used for an apprehensive child.

9. List the levels of sedation (conscious, deep, general) used to manage resistant pediatric dental patients.

10. Review necessary information needed (history, physical assessment, ASA status) to determine if a patient is a candidate for conscious sedation.

11. Describe the pros and cons of different routes of administration (inhalation, PO, IM, IV) used to provide pharmacological behavioral techniques.

12. State the necessary pre‑ and post-op steps and monitoring needed for successful sedation procedures.

Endodontic Treatment in Primary and Young Permanent Dentition
13. Describe indications and contraindications for endodontic treatment over tooth extraction.

14. Describe the information needed to obtain an accurate diagnosis and determine if a primary or young‑permanent tooth is treatable with endodontic treatment.

15. Discuss the influence of behavioral factors on the plan of treatment.

16. Review in detail the behavioral, medical and dental (clinical and radiographic) data that factor into deciding the appropriate endodontic treatment necessary.

17. Discuss the different endodontic treatments, procedures and medicaments used for the primary dentition.

18. Describe the different endodontic treatments, procedures and medicaments used for the young‑permanent dentition.

Gingival and Periodontal Diseases in Children

19. Differentiate between child and adult normal periodontium.

20. Describe different anatomic periodontal abnormalities that occur in children.

21. Discuss localized and general prepubertal periodontitis localized juvenile periodontitis, and generalized juvenile periodontitis.

22. Discuss several examples of gingival overgrowth that occurs in children.

23. Provide a review of gingival and periodontal diseases that specifically appear in the pediatric population.

24. Describe systemic diseases in children that present with gingival or periodontal abnormalities.

Dental Anomalies

25. Describe the dental histologic and developmental stages of a tooth unit.

26. Discuss dental anomalies of the number of teeth and related syndromes (hyperdontia, hypodontia) and their management.

27. Describe twinning and differentiate between fusion, gemination and concrescence.
28. Discuss dental anomalies of size (microdontia, macrodontia and twinning) and their management.

29. State details of dental anomalies of size and shape (dens invaginatus, dens evaginatus, taurodontism) and their management.

30. Describe dental anomalies of structure related to enamel (amelogenesis imperfecta, hypoplasia) and their management.

31. List information about dental anomalies of structure related to dentin (dentinogenesis imperfecta, dentin dysplasia, odontodysplasia) and their management.

32. Discuss dental anomalies of structure related to cementurn and management.