Pharmacology

• Eriksons Stages of Development

  • Learning Basic trust
  • Learning autonomy
  • Play age
  • School age
  • Adolescence
• Treatment areas

  • Chronologic age
  • Emotional age
  • Mental age
  • Eriksons Stages of Development
• School age

  1. 6-11 years
• Emotional age

  • level of emotional maturity
• Cerebral Palsy


  Congenital or acquired disorder that causes paralysis, muscle weakness, lack of coordination
• Learning autonomy

  1. 1-2 years
• Pediatric practices are designed as…


  Treatment areas are designed with an open-bay concept in mind
• Adolescence

  Puberty-Adulthood
• Chronologic age

  • Learning Basic trust
  • Learning autonomy
  • Play age
  • School age
  • Adolescence
• Mental age


  • Learning Basic trust
  • Learning autonomy
  • Play age
  • School age
  • Adolescence
• Diagnosis planning and treatment

  First appointment takes place around age 1, regular examinations begin at age 2
• Play age

  1. 5 years
• Learning Basic trust

  Birth-12 months (period of infancy)
• from ages 12-20, young people begin to acquire self certainty
• Periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults