Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Paediatric Dentistry 4

• code 10467
• course 5
• term Semester 1
• type OB
• credits 3

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English

Head instructor

Dr. Francisco Antonio GUINOT - fguinot@uic.es

Office hours

Tuesday (Dr. Yuste) 16-20 h and Friday (Dr. Guinot) 10-13h

Odontopaediatrics is the science dedicated to the prevention of oral pathology and its treatment, from early childhood to beyond adolescence. 

There aren't pre-course requirements 

1. To determine the causes of the loss of dental health during childhood.

2. To prevent the occurrence of tooth decay.

3. To implement techniques that enable the recovery of dental health.

4. To classify the different dental pathologies.

5. To present the importance and purpose of the correct elaboration of a dental and medical clinical history.

6. To know the different diagnostic tests that are useful in pathology and dental therapeutics.

7. To know the sequence of operative technique in restorative dentistry.

8. To describe the general concepts directing the indications for the different materials used in these restorations.

9. To know the technique for isolation of the operative field in operative dentistry.

10. To develop the ability to deliver a public presentation

11. To develop the ability to write scientific texts in the field of odontopaediatrics.

12. To develop the various pharmacological techniques for carrying out dental odontopaediatric treatment under the different types of sedation.

13. To know the medical basis of the different pathologies in order to be able to establish the correct prophylactic plan, with an aim to improving the oral health of paediatric patients with special needs.

14. To understand the importance of oral habits as a cause of malocclusion without dismissing the role of genetics.

15. To develop different types of protheses for replacing lost temporal teeth, for re-establishing the functions of mastication, swallowing, phonation, etc.

16. To detect and denounce lesions on face and neck as a consequence of ill-treatment and physical abuse.

17. To distinguish the different situations which, in the opinion of the professional, or of the patient or his or her parents, require immediate medical or surgical attention.

18. To know how to design a paediatric oral protector in patients practicing high-risk sports.

• 20 - Obtaining and creating a medical record containing all the relevant information.
• 21 - Knowing how to undertake a full dental exam, including the necessary X-ray and complementary exploratory tests, as well as obtaining suitable clinical references.
• 22 - Having the ability to make an initial diagnostic judgement and establish a reasonable diagnostic strategy, as well as being competent in recognising situations that require urgent dental treatment.
• 23 - Establishing a diagnosis, prognosis and suitable treatment planning for all the different clinical areas of Dentistry, being competent in terms of the diagnosis, prognosis and writing up the dental care plan for patients who require special care, including medically compromised patients (such as diabetics, those with hypertension, a depressed immune system or are anticoagulated, etc) and patients with disabilities.
• 24 - Recognising situations in which lives are at risk and knowing how to provide basic life-support.
• 25 - Being aware of and applying basic treatment for the most common dental pathology in patients of all ages. The treatment procedures must be based on the concept of minimally invasive surgery and an overall and comprehensive focus on dental treatment.
• 26 - Knowing how to plan and undertake multidisciplinary, sequential and comprehensive dental treatment of limited complexity for patients of all ages and conditions and for patients who require special care.
• 27 - Outlining and proposing suitable preventative measures for each clinical situation.
• 28 - Acquiring clinical experience under suitable supervision.
• 37 - Undertaking the x-rays that are necessary in dental practice, interpreting the images obtained and learning about other important image-based diagnosis techniques
• 38 - Being aware of clinical and laboratory-based procedures and diagnostic tests, knowing their reliability and diagnostic viability and being competent in interpreting the results
• 40 - Identifying the main reason for the consultation and the history of the current disease. Creating a general medical record and a clinical record which accurately reflect the patient's notes
• 42 - Handling, distinguishing and selecting the tools and materials that are suitable for dentistry
• 43 - Having knowledge of dental biomaterial: in terms of handling, properties, instructions, allergies, biocompatibility, toxicity and eliminating residues as well as their environmental impact
• 44 - Knowing about and being able to use the basic tools and equipment for dental practice
• 64 - Undertaking basic oral and dental pathology treatments for patients of all ages. The treatment procedures should be minimally invasive and based on a comprehensive and integrated approach to oral and dental treatment
• 65 - Diagnosing, planning and undertaking, at a general level, multidisciplinary, sequential and integrated treatment of limited complexity for patients of all ages and conditions and patients with special needs (diabetes, hypertension, oncological diseases, transplants, immune-depression, anti-clotting, etc.) or disabilities. Specifically the dentist should be competent in establishing a diagnosis, a prognosis and developing a suitable treatment plan, particularly in terms of orofacial pain, temporo-mandibular disorders, bruxism and other parafunctions; dental and periapical pathology; oral and dental trauma; periodontal and peri-implanted tissue pathologies; pathology of the mandibular bone, of soft oral tissue and annex glands; states of partial or total edentation and planning rehabilitation treatment via dento-muco supported prostheses, or dental impants, dental malpositions or malocculusions and other anatomical or functional alterations of the face or the stomatognathic system and their potential orthodontic, orthopaedic or surgical corrections
• 66 - Taking and interpreting x-rays and other image-based procedures that are important in dental practice
• 67 - Creating diagnostic models, setting them up and taking inter-occlusal registrations
• 68 - Determining and identifying the aesthetic requirements of patients and the possibility of resolving their concerns
• 70 - Evaluating motor and sensory oral, mandibular and annex function
• 72 - Appropriate medical prescriptions, while being aware of their guidelines and warnings, systemic effects and repercussions on other organs
• 73 - Applying loco-regional anaesthetic techniques
• 74 - Preparing and isolating the operatory field
• 76 - Identifying and dealing with any dental emergencies
• 79 - Treating dento-alveolar trauma in temporary and permanent dentitions
• 81 - Evaluating and treating patients with caries or other dental non-carious pathologies and being able to use all the material required for restoring the shape, function and aesthetics of the tooth in patients of all ages
• 82 - Designing, preparing teeth, prescribing, recording, doing clinical tests, fitting and putting indirect restorations into service: incrustations, veneers or aesthetic laminate veneers and unitary crowns
• 83 - Treating destructive processes and dento-alveolar trauma injuries via operations
• 84 - Undertaking endodontic treatment and applying procedures to preserve pulp vitality
• 85 - Undertaking conventional aesthetic procedures from a multidisciplinary perspective
• 88 - To undertake non-surgical treatment for temporo-mandibular disorders and oro-facial pain
• 90 - To identify and correct oral habits that are susceptible to causing or exacerbating malocclusions

The dentist should ultimately be able to appropriately diagnose the problems of the child patient. Insofar as training allows, he or she should treat these problems and, when the problem is more complex, know when to remit the patient to the odontopaediatrics specialist.  

• 4.123 - Recognize normal and pathological anatomical structures in a panoramic, periapical and occlusal radiography
• 4.124 - Recognize anatomical structures in the lateral skull radiography
• 4.125 - Know how to make a cephalometric analysis of a lateral tele radiography of the skull
• 4.126 - Know how to make a list of diagnostic problems and structure it properly
• 4.127 - Know the biological basis of dental treatment, its mechanical and biomechanical principles
• 4.128 - Know the elements and clinical use of orthodontic appliances
• 4.129 - Acquire skills in bending wire
• 4.130 - Know how to make a removable orthodontic appliance
• 4.131 - Know the general principles of the orthodontic and interdisciplinary treatments in children and adolescents
• 4.132 - Know the general principles of interdisciplinary treatment in adults
• 4.133 - Acquire the discipline to focus interdisciplinary treatments
• 4.155 - Carry out various prosthesis tests and color that are made during the preparation of the different prostheses.
• 4.001 - Know the anatomy and histology of the periodontal tissues in health and disease
• 4.002 - Understand the mechanisms of bacterial colonization in the oral cavity and identify their implications for health and periodontal diseases
• 4.003 - - Know the mechanisms of inflammatory and immune response of periodontal tissues against bacteria of dental biofilm
• 4.004 - Understand the main factors associated with periodontal disease, identifying their causes, pathogenesis and risk factors
• 4.013 - Perform limited occlusal adjustments under supervision
• 4.015 - Identify the anatomic and dental structures in panoramic radiographs, periapical and bitewing
• 4.016 - - Perform the following treatments in phantoms with primary teeth: making records with alginate, sealed pits and fissures, isolation of the operative field with a rubber dam, cavities Class I, II, II, IV, V, VI, filling cavities class I, II, III, IV, V, VI with composed materials, pulpotomies and pulpectomies, placing preformed steel crowns, extensive reconstructions in the first permanent molar, splints, veneers of material composed in primary incisive
• 4.017 - Perform a diagnosis and treatment plan for children
• 4.018 - Demonstrate the ability to communicate with a child and a parent or guardian
• 4.019 - Conduct prophylaxis and demonstrations of proper oral hygiene adapted to the patient's age
• 4.020 - Demonstrate the ability to isolate the operative field with a rubber dam in children
• 4.021 - Perform sealed pits and fissures in primary and permanent dentition with and without enameloplasty
• 4.022 - Perform cavities class I and II in second molars
• 4.023 - Use correctly the composite materials for sealing cavities
• 4.024 - Perform simple extractions of primary molars.
• 4.027 - Perform simple surgical procedures: removal of temporary and permanent erupted teeth, fractured or retained roots and uncomplicated surgical removal of impacted teeth and simple procedures of pre-prosthetic surgery
• 4.031 - Differentiate pain according to location
• 4.032 - Differentiate pain according to origin
• 4.033 - Differentiate pain according to duration
• 4.034 - Differentiate pain according to the characteristic of the pain
• 4.035 - Plan and perform different operative dental cavities of operative dentistry: its elements, classification, conditions of form, types of restorative techniques, objectives and sequence of cavity preparation
• 4.036 - Learn how to act with the patient prior to the placement of a rubber dam
• 4.037 - Perform dam placement technique using the clamp first and then the paste
• 4.038 - Perform placement technique using rubber dam and then the first clamp
• 4.039 - Perform the technique of placing the dam carrying simultaneously the clamp and rubber
• 4.040 - Choose the correct clamp according to the tooth to isolate
• 4.041 - Dominate the absolute isolation technique of an hemi arcade
• 4.042 - Perform the enamel adhesion technique
• 4.043 - Perform the adhesive technique in dentin
• 4.044 - Choose and apply a suitable adhesive system to the type of restoration to make
• 4.045 - Place properly the first three layers of composite in cavities class I
• 4.048 - Master the clinical technique of carving a cavity class I for composite
• 4.049 - Master the clinical technique of sealing a class I composite cavity
• 4.050 - Make a formwork with the matrix system Auto matrix
• 4.051 - Perform a formwork with preformed sectional matrix system and separation rings
• 4.052 - Selecting the most suitable formwork system to the characteristics of each cavity
• 4.053 - Perform the clinical technique of carving a class II cavity for composite
• 4.054 - Master the clinical technique of carving a class II cavity for composite
• 4.055 - Select properly the matrix for each specific cavity class III
• 4.056 - Carve a cavity Class III in different clinical situations
• 4.057 - Place properly the placement of the matrix prior to the insertion of the composite
• 4.058 - Seal properly a cavity class III
• 4.059 - Select the finishing and polishing system more suitable depending on the configuration of each specific cavity class III
• 4.060 - Make the polish of the filling Class III of composite
• 4.061 - Perform a test restoration into a cavity of class IV
• 4.062 - Make a palatine mask for a class IV cavity
• 4.063 - Carve a cavity Class IV for a good retention and aesthetic of the sealing material
• 4.064 - Seal a cavity of class IV by stratification
• 4.065 - Polish fillings composite class IV
• 4.066 - Master the clinical technique of making a composite class V cavity
• 4.067 - Master the clinical technique of sealing a class V composite cavity
• 4.068 - Establish an indication of an indirect restoration
• 4.069 - Choose the right material for an indirect restoration
• 4.070 - Carve a cavity for indirect restorations inlay type
• 4.071 - Carve a cavity for an indirect restoration on lay
• 4.072 - Carve a cavity for indirect restoration overlay type
• 4.099 - Perform hand treatments of complete ducts on different teeth of the arcade
• 4.100 - Perform in vivo ducts treatment in teeth with a difficulty level 1
• 4.101 - Select intraradicular retention elements depending on the characteristics of the treated tooth
• 4.102 - Place intraradicular retaining elements intraradicular
• 4.103 - Reconstruct with direct materials an endodontic tooth
• 4.104 - Reconstruct with an indirect technique, an endodontic tooth
• 4.105 - Diagnose a patient who has suffered dental trauma
• 4.106 - Treat a dental trauma urgency
• 4.107 - Establish a treatment plan for a patient with dental trauma
• 4.108 - Consult with the necessary specialists for a comprehensive treatment
• 4.109 - Know the history and the main objectives of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
• 4.110 - Know the function of the stomatognathic system and especially of the occlusion
• 4.111 - Know the basic principles of the ideal occlusion
• 4.112 - Know the development of teething and tooth eruption
• 4.113 - Know and diagnose abnormalities of eruption
• 4.114 - Understand the processes of growth and dent skeletal development and know its clinical application
• 4.115 - Have the ability to diagnose dental malocclusions in the three plans of space
• 4.116 - Know and recognize the etiology of malocclusions
• 4.117 - Know how to make a proper patient history
• 4.118 - Know how to make a proper oral and practical examination of the patient
• 4.119 - Know how to make a correct facial examination of the patient
• 4.120 - Have the ability to diagnose the patient facial typology
• 4.121 - Know how to make a correct analysis of study models
• 4.122 - Know how to make a correct analysis of the plaster models

TOPIC 1: NOR

1.1  Normal occlusion

1.2  Physiological Occlusion

1.3  Functional Envelopes

       1.3.1 normal

       1.3.2 CCP

       1.3.3 Dysfunctional

       1.3.4 Parafunctional

1.4 Current Problem

1.5 Laws of stomatognathic development 

1.6 AFMPS

1.7 Early Therapeutic

        1.7.1 Direct tracks

        1.7.2  Selective adjustment

1.8 Cases

TOPIC 2: PHARMACOLOGY

2.1   Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in childrens.

2.2   Clinical cases to apply the basic principies for the prescription of drugs in the pediatric population.

2.3   Main drugs used in pediatric dentistry.

        2.3.1          Antibiotics and antimicrobials.

        2.3.2          Analgesics and anti-inflammatories

2.4   Calculate drugs dosage.

2.5   Infective endocartditis

        2.5.1          Bacteremia of dental origin

        2.5.2      Antibiotic prophylaxis.

TOPIC 3: ADVANCED CLINICAL CASES I and II

3.1 Advanced clinical cases I

       3.1.1 Pulp Therapy: pulpotomy

       3.1.2 Pulp Therapy: pulpectomy

       3.1.3 Orthopantomography

3.2 Advanced clinical cases II

       3.2.1 Emergencies: dental traumathologyl

       3.2.2 Orthopantomographys

1.- Theory lessons 

2.- Clinical practical sessions 

3.- Specialised seminars

The theoretical exam will consist of 40 test questions with 5 possible answers, and only one correct one, with a time of 1 minute per question to answer. The wrongly answered questions will subtract 0.25 points. The theoretical exam is passed after 5.

 It is essential to overcome the theory with a 5 to pass the course .

 Final grade : theory 65%+ CUO 35%

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8. AAPD. Use of Vital Pulp Therapies in primary teeth with deep caries lesions. Pediatr Dent. 2017; 39 (6): 173-186.

9. AAPD. Guideline antibiotic prophylaxis for dental patients at risk for infection. 2016; 38 (6): 328-333.

10. AAPD. Guideline  use of antibiotic  therapy for pediatric dental patients. Pediatr Dent. 2016; 38 (6): 325-27.

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:

• E1 17/12/2019 08:00h A10
• E1 17/12/2019 08:00h A01
• E1 17/12/2019 08:00h A02
• R1 24/01/2020 10:00h A04
• E2 23/06/2020 09:00h A21
• R2 06/07/2020 10:00h A21