Prescribing Dental Radiographs for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Individuals with Special Health Care Needs.

Guideline on prescribing dental radiographs for infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special health care needs.

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) intends this guideline to help practitioners make clinical decisions concerning appropriate selection of dental radiographs as part of an oral evaluation of infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special health care needs. The guideline can be used to optimize patient care, minimize radiation burden, and allocate health care r...

Policy on Model Dental Benefits for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Individuals with Special Health Care Needs.

Policy on hospitalization and operating room access for dental care of infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special health care needs.

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) advocates , when indicated, hospitalization and equal access to operating room facilities for oral care of infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special health care needs. The AAPD recognizes that barriers to hospital oral care for patients who require treatment in that setting need to be addressed. Method This policy is an u...

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...

Policy on Emergency Oral Care for Infants, Children, Adolescents, and Individuals with Special Health Care Needs.

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes emergency care for infants, children, adolescents, and individuals with special health care needs is an essential duty of every dentist. The American Dental Association’s Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct states that “dentists shall be obliged to make reasonable arrangements for the emergency care of their patient...