Course Content:
The infant patient, the infant as a human being, their emotions, how they experience pain, and the
care of those who touch them. Behavioral management in early childhood.
Prenatal Dental Care and the First 1,000 Days of a Baby’s Life. Relationship with
epigenetics.
Breastfeeding and formula feeding and their implications for the infant. Maternal
is the only prevention for malocclusion: justifications and scientific basis.
Guidance on the importance of and how to work in a transdisciplinary manner
with pediatricians, gynecologists, speech-language pathologists, osteopaths, and psychologists.
Non-nutritive oral habits and their impact on dental arch development.
New WHO guidelines.
Neonatal Dentistry: normal morphological characteristics of the infant’s mouth and
abnormalities in the newborn’s mouth; tooth eruption, common
common anomalies.
Diet and sucrose exposure, implications for caries risk. Guidelines for
protective foods and healthy suggestions for early childhood.
Major oral conditions affecting soft tissues: hand-foot-mouth disease, candidiasis,
herpetic gingivostomatitis, aphthous stomatitis, mucolec, teething hematoma
eruption, angular cheilitis, epulis, etc.
Oral health education and family involvement in
oral health in childhood.
Oral frenula, evaluation, and management of ankyloglossia. Scientific evidence
for procedures and discussion of multidisciplinary diagnosis.
Cariology: Multifactorial nature of dental caries: intrinsic and
extrinsic factors related to the host and the family unit. Diagnosis of carious lesions.
Cariostatic agents and new restorative materials.
Enamel development defects in primary teeth (HMD) and their
prediction of hypomineralization in permanent teeth (HMI).
Dental care protocols for the 0–36-month age group
.
Medical records, medical history, diagnosis, and treatment plans for
infants. Legal aspects of the medical record.
Ergonomics and safety in infant care: use of
protective stabilization.
Oral hygiene for infants and the use of fluoride in infants, based on current evidence.
Food diary and meal log.
Radiology applied to infants.
Minimally invasive dentistry in infants: Techniques and materials used
for the treatment of dental caries lesions.
Clinical case discussions.
