Paediatric Dentistry for Non-Specialists (FutureLearn)

Apart from various treatment options, you’ll also learn more about the prevention of dental problems, how to manage children’s behaviour during dentist visits, and how to deal with children presenting with dental trauma as an emergency.
Explore practical techniques you can apply in your paediatric dental practice

As part of this paediatric dentistry course, you’ll get a deeper understanding of the management and prevention of caries in children. You’ll learn how to assess children presenting with dental trauma and what the critical emergency treatment options are.

You’ll get to develop your behaviour management skills as well as how to successfully deliver local anaesthetic injections in children. This course will highlight the importance of treatment planning and the key things to consider when managing children.
Learn from the leading global provider for postgraduate dental education

During this course, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from dental care experts with strong clinical and teaching expertise. Their experience has provided them with significant insights into some of the most common children’s dentistry problems.
What topics will you cover?

- Prevention and management of caries

- Dealing with a dental trauma emergency

- Managing behaviour and giving local anaesthetic

- Treatment planning for children
What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Apply evidence based prevention and management of caries

- Perform assessment and emergency management of a child presenting with trauma

- Develop behaviour management and local anaesthetic techniques

- Improve treatment planning for children