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Learning outcomes

The pediatric dentistry course aims, within the limits of the time available, to provide the learner with the theoretical notions and practical examples necessary to prevent, intercept and treat the anomalies and odontostomatological pathologies of the pediatric subject from birth to adolescence .

Program

The pedodontic patient: classification of the therapeutic aims
Dentistry as a function of the pedodontic patient
The child's first dental visit
The psychological approach: the control of behavior
Behavior techniques in uncooperative patients
Clinical examination
Radiographic examination
Facial growth
Dental eruption and exchange
Dental anatomy
Caries prevention strategies
Modern concepts of fluoroprophylaxis
The carious pathology of deciduous teeth: clinical forms of caries
Pulp and pulpo-periodontal pathology of the deciduous tooth
Locoregional anesthesia: pharmacological sedation and conscious sedation with nitrous oxide and oxygen in the child;
The isolation of the teeth: the rubber dam in the pedodontic patient;
Conservative therapy of deciduous teeth: general concepts of cavity preparations from the first Black classes to complex reconstructions;
Evolution of materials and techniques: from amalgam, to compomers, up to the latest generation composites; from traditional preparation techniques with rotating instruments to atraumatic techniques;
Vital Pulp Therapy: Indirect Pulp Hooding e
direct; partial pulpotomies, chamber and partial pulpectomies;
Necrotic deciduous tooth therapy: total pulpectomy, root canal preparation and filling;
The limits of endodontic therapy of deciduous teeth
Immature permanent tooth therapy. Physiological and induced apexification
Trauma of deciduous teeth and immature permanent teeth: diagnosis and therapy;
Medical-Legal Problems in Traumatology;
Periodontal diseases in the pedodontic patient: anatomy, physiology of the young periodontium; gingivitis, primary and secondary gingivostomatitis;
juvenile diabetes mellitus and oro-gingival pathology;
Dental anomalies of shape, number, position: diagnostic framework and therapeutic solutions;
Oral tumors of childhood: diagnostic framework, hints of therapy
Interception and prevention of malocclusions and dento-skeletal malformations
Early treatment of malocclusions.

Examination Methods

written and oral