Course description
Speaker(s): Una Man, Dentist/Clinical Teaching Fellow (Paediatric Lead), University of Portsmouth Dental Academy
Description:
Most – if not all of us – will at some stage in our career be faced with a child with huge carious lesions in their primary molars. This hands-on CPD course is designed to assist and support primary care practitioners in effectively managing caries in the paediatric dentition using a Hall preformed metal crown. Participants will also be exposed to training in the techniques for undertaking primary pulp therapy.
Aims:
Overall aim:
To improve the management of advanced caries in children.
Specific aims:
1. To make paediatric appointments a little less stressful for both practitioner and patient.
2. To increase participants’ skills and confidence in paediatric dentistry.
3. To reduce unnecessary paediatric referrals to secondary care.
Objectives:
1. To provide the evidence-base underpinning the management of grossly carious primary molars.
2. To expose participants to hands-on training in the techniques for undertaking primary pulp therapy.
3. To expose participants to hands-on training in the techniques for providing extra-coronal restorations to primary molars.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Apply the appropriate evidence to effectively manage advanced caries in children.
2. Demonstrate competence in carrying out primary pulp therapy in a simulated environment.
3. Demonstrate competence in restoring primary molars using preformed metal crowns in a simulated environment.
Development Outcomes: A,C
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