Prosthetics in Paediatric Dentistry

Paediatric dentistry- novel evolvement

Pediatric dentistry provides primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, together with special health care needs. This specialty encompasses a variety of skills, disciplines, procedures and techniques that share a common origin with other dental specialties however these have been modified and reformed to the distinctive re...

Paediatric aesthetic dentistry: a review.

AIM A number of conditions can lead to aesthetically unacceptable dentitions like dental caries, discoloration, trauma, early loss of teeth, misalignment and any abnormality of shape and size. Today we have a large number of solutions available for aesthetic problems in paediatric dentistry. But the biggest dilemma is: How to choose what is best for a particular patient and that situation? T...

UK National Clinical Guidelines in Paediatric Dentistry

Review: behaviour management techniques in paediatric dentistry.

BACKGROUND Behaviour management is widely agreed to be a key factor in providing dental care for children. Indeed, if a child's behaviour in the dental surgery/office cannot be managed then it is difficult if not impossible to carry out any dental care that is needed. It is imperative that any approach to behavioural management for the dental child patient must be rooted in empathy and a concer...

Psychological aspects in paediatric dentistry: parental presence.

AIM The scope of the present study has been the analysis of the main psychological approaches used during a first dental visit of a child to gain the necessary collaboration, focusing on the influence of parental presence during the visit. METHODS The study was conducted on a group of 200 children divided into two sub-groups. In Group I the child was seen without the parent's presence and in ...