PPED 820 - Special Topics in Pediatric Dental Care

Cr Hrs: 2 (32-0-0)
This course is given in the fall of the first year of residency to provide the pediatric postgraduate student with comprehensive lectures on managing traumatic dental injuries, pharmacologic behavior management (sedation), and management of emergency events. The diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment approach of traumatic injuries to the primary and permanent dentition will be discussed. Students will be provided with lectures on the pharmacology of various sedatives used in pediatric dental sedations, routes of administration, principles of monitoring, and managing emergency events. Simulations in managing emergency events will occur. Seminars are led by the Pediatric Dentistry faculty. In addition, guest lecturers and other members of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center faculty will participate.

Grade Mode: Standard
Instructional Method: Lecture
Prerequisites: Acceptance into Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Program

Term offered: Fall

Fall - Instructor of Record: Martha Wells
Fall - Additional Instructor 1: Larry Dormois
Fall - Additional Instructor 2: Hamid Yazdi
Fall - Additional Instructor 3: Craig Vinall
Fall - Additional Instructor 4: Jennifer Fernandez