Paediatric Dentistry
[DENT2155]
[35h] 3 credits
This course is taught in the 2d semester.
Teacher(s): Charles Pilipili
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
At the completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Diagnose and treat carious and non-carious dental conditions in children and adolescents.
- Establish a trusting relationship with the young patient and his parents, taking into account age and family, psychological, and medical histories.
- Design a caries prevention program suitable for the child's age and motivate the child and his parents to implement it.
- Apply pain control techniques during dental care and tooth extraction, taking into account the child's anatomical and psychological specificities.
- Compensate for premature tooth loss in children and adolescents, and evaluate and prevent consequences for the growth and harmony of dental arches.
- Manage dental traumatisms in children and adolescents, as well as their consequences in the short-, medium-, and long-term.
Main themes
2. Physiopathology of temporary teeth
3. Carious, pulpar, and pulpar-periodontal pathologies in temporary teeth
4. Pathologies of young permanent teeth
5. Prevention of dental caries, taking into account the patient's age
6. Dental anomalies in children, in terms of number, form, and structure
7. Pain control in young patients
8. Restorative and endodontic treatments of temporary and young permanent teeth
9. Minor surgery
10. Dental traumatisms: their complications and treatments
11. Arch harmony: prevention and interception of malocclusions
12. Care management in the vigil state, under conscious sedation, and under general anaesthesia
Content and teaching methods
The course evaluates the psychological and physiological particularities inherent to the general treatment of children and adolescents. The prevention, interception, and early treatment of dental conditions must harmonize with the child's growth and development conditions.
Traumatology, the rehabilitation of young toothless patients, the struggle against multiple caries in young children, and the specificities of temporary, mixed, and young permanent teeth should lead to adapted therapeutic decisions that differ from those used in adults.
Methods
Lectures, with active student participation and clinical case presentation
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Familiarity with child and adolescent psychology, dental anatomy, arch growth and development (temporary, mixed, and young permanent teeth), dental bio-materials, and restorative dentistry
Evaluation
Written examination: evaluates theoretical knowledge and understanding of the course material
Support
Course notes, slides