34424 - Training in Pediatric Dentistry

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Gabriela Piana
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: MED/28
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in School of Dentistry (cod. 8204)

Course contents

Doctor-Patient communication with the pediatric patient, patient and family management.

Clinical examination in Pediatric Dentistry.

Craniofacial development: embryology and growth.

Morfology and histology of primary and permanent teeth.

Development and characteristics of the primary, mixed and permanent dentition.

Dental anomalies.

Radiographic diagnosis in pediatric dentistry.

Guidelines for the promotion of oral health in children: oral hygiene, use of topical and systemic fluoride (metabolism, mechanisms of action, side effects), power supply, sealing of pits and fissures.

Pain control in the child patient.

Caries in deciduous teeth (etiology, diagnosis and therapy).

Pulpal disease in deciduous teeth (etiology, diagnosis and therapy)

Periapical pathology of endodontic origin in deciduous teeth (etiology, diagnosis and therapy).

Dental injuries of traumatic origin of deciduous and permanent teeth (classification, diagnosis and therapy).

Office hours

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