PPED 820 - Special Topics in Pediatric Dental Care

Cr Hrs: 2 (32-0-0)
GR

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, Seminar, Laboratory

Prerequisites: Acceptance into Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Program
Term Offered: Fall