Pediatric Dentistry

• Pediatric Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.
• Age-defined


  Most specialties are procedure defined like Endodontics, Periodontics, Prosthodontics, etc. Pediatric dentists provide care for their specific age group of patients. There is no limitation to what type of treatment they provide.
• Primary And Comprehensive Care


  Pediatric dentists are primary providers. There is no need for a referral of patients. Parents can choose to have their children evaluated and treated by a pediatric dentist just like they can choose to have their child treated by a pediatrician.
• Infants and children through adolescence

  Pediatric dentists see patients at any age from birth up to their late teens
• Special Health Care Needs

  Pediatric dentists have training and experience to evaluate and treat patients that are medically compromised. This includes patients with hemophilia, leukemia, congenital syndromes, etc… No other dental specialty, other than OMS is more involved in hospital care of patients.
• The responsibilities of a pediatric dentist include promoting oral health for children and adolescents, diagnosing oral diseases, formulating treatment plans, managing dental trauma, fractured, displaced and knock-out teeth, correcting malocclusion through interceptive orthodontics, treating pediatric patients under various stages of sedation, monitoring the growth and development of the teeth and jaws, testing for oral cancer and performing biopsies, interpreting x-rays and diagnostic tests, treating dental caries and odontogenic infection, and performing surgical procedures on the teeth, bo
• Applying preventive measures for dental caries & periodontal disease i preventing, intercepting and correcting occlusal problems; and training the child to accept dental care.
• AAPD

  "Pediatric Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs."
• Paracetamol

  • How it was supplied
  • 120mg/5ml (60ml)
  • Calpol Ped. Susp / Tempra Syrp
  • 250mg/5ml (60ml)
  • Calpol Six Plus / Tempra Forte Syrp
  • 60mg/0,6ml (30ml)
  • Tempra Drops (for infants)
  • Dosage

  10-20 mg / kg / dose every 4hrs.
• Amoxicillin

  • How it was supplied = 125mg/5ml (60ml))
  • 250mg/5ml (60ml))

  Dosage

  • 20-40mg/kg/day in 3 divided doses
• Ibuprofen

  • How it was supplied
  • 100mg/5ml (60ml)
  • Dosage a 5Dosage

  5-10 mg/kg/dose every 6hrs (minimum age - 3yrs old)
• Prescription

  Rx

  Amoxicillin, syrp, 250mg/5ml

  Disp: 1 bottle 60ml

  Sig: Take 4,2ml every shrs for.

  5 days (8am, 4pm, 12mn)
• Paracetamol

  • How it was supplied
  • 120mg/5ml (60ml)Calpol Ped, Susp / Tempra Sytp
  • 250mg/5ml (60ml))a Calpel Six Plus | Tempra Forte Syr= 60mg/0.6ml (30ml)
  • Tempra Drops (jor infants)

  a Dosage

  • 10-20 mg / kg | dose eveny 4hrs.
• Phases of Child Development

  1. Physical Development
  2. Mental Development
  3. Conceptual Intelligence Development
  4. Language Development
• Physical Development

  development of head to toe

  development of inside to peripherals
• Mental Development


  Development of the Structure of the Brain
• Conceptual Intelligence Development 


  Development of the imagination

  has 4 stages
• Stages of Conceptual Intelligence Development

  1. Pre-Conceptual Stage
  2. Interline Stage
  3. Reasoning Stage
  4. Stage of Formal Operation
• Pre-conceptual Stage


  Stage of Conceptual Intelligence Development which is Representative thinking
• Language Development

  The period where the child starts bubbling
• Age of Language Development

  6-8 months
• Classification of Child Development (Stages)

  1. Infancy
  2. Toddlerhood
  3. Pre-school Period
  4. School Years
  5. Adolescence
• Interline Stage

  Conceptual Intelligence Development Stage which is the most dominant aspect of the child; close to reality
• Reasoning Stage


  Stage of Conceptual Intelligence Development which is limited to concrete operation
• Infancy


  Stage in Child Development where child starts Teething
• Classic Signs of Teething

  • Fever
  • Drooling/Salivation
  • Irritability
• During infancy what should be the last substance that a baby should consume and why?

  Water / so milk would not stay and linger in the mouth while sleeping
• Toddlerhood

  • known as terrible 2's and trouble 3's
  • children who like to jump and play. 18 months - 2 years old
• Pre/School Period


  children who mostly enjoy playing
• Stages of Pre-schooler's Relationship with Playing

  1. Solitary Play
  2. On-Looking Play
  3. Parallel Play
  4. Associative Play
  5. Cooperative Play
• How to clean mouth of children during infancy?

  • Clean gums by putting gauze on finger and brush gums
  • Dont forget to clean tongue
• How to help an infant with teething?

  • Get butter and put on finger and massage the gums to help erupt teeth
• Pre-school Period

  1. The time where children are talkative
  2. 2-3 years old
• Solitary Okay


  playing without peer involvement
• On looking play


  not playing only watching people play
• Parallel play


  playing side to side

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• Associative Play

  Similar activity but not with eachother
• cooperative pkay

  Needs a playmate
• School years

  • Start to associate to good values
  • labeling "bully"
  • dentists now should know what kids want
• Division of school Year

  1. Early School Years - Grade 1-3
  2. Middle School Years - Grade 4-6
  3. Late Years - Grade 7-9