(PRE05) Pediatric Dentistry: A Mini-Residency

Getting a little nervous when 1-year-old Avery comes to your office for the first visit? Can’t remember whether to use ZOE, guano, or MTA in the pulp chamber after a pulpotomy? How to get an SSC to fit without the socks-on-a-rooster look? Have nothing to say to 5-year-old Sam because you haven’t seen the latest, or for that matter, any episodes of Frozen?

This 8-hour mini-residency will bring you up to date on current concepts in pediatric dentistry and supplement your knowledge and technical skills to improve examination and treatment outcomes through age-appropriate behavior interventions for the child and the parent. Our goal should always be a caries-free and non-dental phobic child. This 8-hour course will include 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of the hands-on workshop. There will be a one-hour lunch break. Lunch is not provided.

Topics covered:
• Early intervention and counseling for the 1-year visit and beyond
• Minimally invasive restorative dentistry and pulp therapy in the time of COVID-19
• Pain control and behavior management in children
• Triaging and treating the pediatric dental emergency (and not)
• Myths of pediatric dentistry and when not to treat!
• Workshop on pulp therapy and restoring the primary molar