Main description:

This textbook provides dental practitioners and students with all the knowledge required in order to treat optimally the oral conditions encountered in children and adolescents and to offer appropriate guidance on subsequent oral health self-care. The opening chapters are designed to assist readers in providing empathic care on the basis of a sound understanding of the processes of physical and psychological maturation. The use of sedation and anesthesia is then discussed, followed by detailed information on such key topics as tooth eruption and shedding, preventive and interceptive orthodontics, and control of dental caries. Restoration procedures and pulp treatment necessitated by dental caries, trauma and/or developmental anomalies are clearly described, with reference to relevant advances in dental technology and materials. Subsequent chapters focus on conditions compromising dental or general oral health in the pediatric age group, such as periodontal diseases, dental wear, dental anomalies, TMJ disorders, and soft tissue lesions. The book concludes by examining treatment approaches in children and adolescents with disabilities, syndromes, chronic diseases, craniofacial abnormalities, and generally advocating children centered dentistry as it affects their quality of life.

Contents:

1. Pediatric Dentistry - Past, present and future2. Child Cognitive Development: Building Positive Attitudes Towards Dentists and Oral Health3. Pediatric body growth4. Child dental fear, communication and cooperation5. Behavior Guidance and Communicative Management 6. Examination, diagnosis and treatment plan implementation7. Local Anesthesia in Pediatric Dentistry 8. Pharmacologic behavior management (sedation - general anesthesia)9. Growth of the Craniofacial Complex 10. Tooth Eruption, Shedding, Extraction and Related Surgical Issues
11. Orthodontic knowledge and practice for the pediatric dentist12. Dental Caries Prevention in Children and Adolescents13. Restoration of Carious hard dental tissues 14. Pulp therapy in Pediatric Dentistry 15. Periodontal diseases in children and adolescents 16. Dentoalveolar trauma of children and adolescents17. Developmental defects of the teeth and their hard tissues18. Tooth wear in children and adolescents19. Temporomandibular Disorders in Children and Adolescents20. Oral Lesions in Children and Adolescents21. The young dental patient with systemic disease22. Disabilities, neuropsychiatric disorders and syndromes in childhood and adolescence23. Child-centered dentistry: engaging and protecting children