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Caring for children and adolescents

Course Description: Introduction to Clinical Pediatric Dentistry covering behavior management, oral diagnosis, preventive dentistry, infant and child care, congenital dental anomalies, radiographic interpretation, anesthesia, pulp therapy for primary teeth, space maintainers, and oral surgery for primary teeth, as well as managing contusions and injuries to primary and permanent teeth. This course is designed for students to acquire the necessary skills to integrate orthodontics with general dental practice, including comprehensive clinical evaluation, selection of appropriate diagnostic records, generating a list of orthodontic patient problems, deriving treatment objectives, and developing a treatment plan that incorporates orthodontics with other types of dental care when appropriate. Students will learn the biological and mechanical principles of patient management and orthodontic basics, so they can provide their patients with accurate information about the benefits and risks of the practice, as well as available alternatives for patients with simple or complex malocclusions.

Credit hours: 4

Prerequisites: DENT 114

Objectives of the course :

By the end of this course, the student should be able to:
• Encourage parents and children to maintain optimal oral health by using currently available preventive methods in dentistry.
• Guiding parents and children to learn to accept dental experiences by understanding normal physiology, social development, and the growth of children and adolescents.
• Acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills to perform dental restoration procedures in primary, mixed, and permanent dentition stages.
• Recognizing normal facial and oral growth and development and intervening to prevent abnormal growth
• Understanding the diagnosis and treatment of orthodontic conditions
• Understanding orthodontic diagnosis using anteroposterior, vertical, and transverse dimensions
• Understanding the primary causes of occlusal disharmony and the main mechanisms of orthodontic problems
• Recognize anatomical landmarks in skull radiographs and be able to analyze the information extracted from these radiographic images
• Understanding the spatial levels used in diagnosing orthodontic cases
Understanding the Engle classification rules for occlusal dysfunction, and the specifications of each classification category.

Course outputs :

• Identify the general and specific factors that may cause disturbances in dental prostheses
• Knowledge of natural teething methods and also the ability to recognize abnormal teething sequences
• Analyze the maxillary arch length in the mixed dentition and permanent dentition stages, and explain the clinical significance of sufficiency and insufficiency.
• Discussing Bolton's analysis of tooth size to identify the compatibility between tooth sizes and clarifying the clinical benefit of tooth size discrepancies
• Description of changes in the dental arches that are expected to be of normal growth and the transition from the primary dentition to the permanent dentition
• Describe the role of space maintainers for extracted teeth, and the role of tooth extraction in orthodontics.
• Understand the advantages and disadvantages of serial extraction in the mixed dentition stage.
• The main objective of this course is to develop students' ability in comprehensive dental care for children and adolescents.

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Last updated: 2026-04-08