Pediatric Dentistry offers a fully revised and updated review of pediatric dentistry.
This important text covers the full spectrum of the subject, basing itself in the clinical practice of the dental treatment of children and adolescents and providing a special emphasis on evidence-based oral health care for young people.
Pediatric Dentistry follows a logical approach, covering major dental and oral diseases and their diagnosis and management in children and adolescents, including caries, periodontal and endodontic conditions, and TMJ disorders.
Also discussed is number of dental and oral conditions that relate more directly to childhood, such as dental erosion, traumatic injuries to the teeth, pain control, and treatment of physically and mentally disabled children.
Topics such as dental, physical, intellectual and emotional development are also thoroughly reviewed.
Pediatric Dentistry will provide students of dentistry, as well as pediatric dentists and dentists involved in the treatment of young patients, with a uniquely clear, comprehensive, and clinical approach to the dental treatment of children and adolescents.
Contents
1. Pediatric oral health care – the perspectives
- How it began: The historical perspective
- Community responsibility: The population perspective
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: The ethical perspective
- Pediatric dentistry: The clinical perspective
2. Growth and Pubertal Development
- Measurement of growth in different phases of life
- Growing pains
- Evaluation of growth charts
- Bone age determination
- Final height prediction
- Dental age determination
- Disorders of growth and puberty
3. Child and Adolescent Psychological Development
- Perspectives on psychological development
- Aspects of psychological development
- Man is a social animal
- A holistic description of children of different ages
- Developmental psychopathology
4. Dental fear and behavior management problems
- Definitions and prevalence of dental fear adn anxiety
- Etiology
- Principles of management
- Specialized pediatric dentists
5. Pain, pain control and sedation
- Methods of pain control
- Local analgesia and pain control
- General analgesia
- Conscious sedation
- General anesthesia
6. Dental caries in children and adolescents
- Childhood dental caries as a health problem
- Epidemiology of dental caries in children and adolescents
- Caries in children adn adolescents in changing society
7. Case history and clinical examination
- Case history
- Clinical examination
- Records
8. Radiographic examination and diagnosis
- Indication for radiographs in children adn adolescents
- Principles for interpretation of radiograps
- Radiographic anomalies and pathologies in children and adolescents
- Caries and its sequela
- Trauma to teeth and supporting tissue
- Developmental and aquired dental anomalies
- Systemic diseases and syndromes
- Treatment planning priod to orthodontics
- Treatment planning prior to surgery
- Intraoral radiographic techniques
- Extraoral radiographic techniques
- Radiation protection
9. Caries Prevention
- The importance and concpets of caries prevention
- How does caries develop?
- Evidence-based prevention
- Preventive strategies
- Evaluation of caries risk in individuals
10. Diagnosis and management of dental caries
- The concept of caries diagnosis
- Detection and assessment of the caries lesion
- Diagnostic tools
- Alternative/supplementary diagnostic tools
- The concept of caries treatment
- Restorative procedures
- Specific conditions for different age groups
11. Dental erosion
- Epidemiology
- Etiology
- Other factors associated with dental erosion
- Lifestyle
- Case history and clinical examination
- Preventive policies
- Restorative treatment
12. Pedodontic endodontics
- Diagnosis of pulp lesions in primary and immature permanent teeth
- Should endodontic interventions be carries out in the primary dentition?
- Complications (primary teeth)
- Follow-up and long-term prognosis
- Pulp therapy in immature permanent teeth
- Bleaching of nonvital discolored permanent teeth
- Handling the emergency child patient
13. Periodontal conditions
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14. Tooth development and disturbances in number and shape of teeth
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15. Eruption and shedding of teeth
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16. Occlusal development, preventive and interceptive orthodontics
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17. Developmental defects of the dental hard tissues and their treatment
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18. Traumatic Injuries – examination, diagnosis and immediate care
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19. Traumatic Injuries – follow-up and long-term prognosis
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20. Oral mucous lesions and minor oral surgery
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21. Temporomandibular disorders
...and more
22. Children with chronic health conditions—implications for oral health
...and more
23. Dental care for the child and adolescent with disabilities
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Index
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