Thanks to this professional master’s degree you will get the up-to-date knowledge in Pediatric Dentistry you were looking for" 

Patients with special dental care needs encounter numerous challenges for adequate, tailored dental care and treatment. It is an important population group, as well as that of children who need highly qualified professionals. This professional master’s degree in Updated Pediatric Dentistry delves into the main aspects that make up pediatric dentistry oral care in children, from birth to 14 years of age.

An update that the dental professional will achieve throughout this 12-month program, thanks to the educational content provided by a large teaching team specialized in this field. Their extensive knowledge and extensive experience in oral care and intervention in children will be reflected in multimedia material consisting of video summaries, videos in detail, essential readings and clinical case scenarios that will be very useful in the development of this program. 

A program where the professional will delve into the structures of the mouth, its functioning, the establishment of a dental home, the accompaniment of the child and their family, the care and maintenance of a healthy mouth, the recognition of the various pathologies that can occur in the oral and dental area. In addition, this program will help students to be aware of the latest developments in treatments, especially in children who require special dental care.

A 100% online professional master’s degree that gives students the flexibility of being able to study a university program, wherever and whenever they wish. It only requires an electronic device with internet connection to access the complete syllabus, without attendance or fixed schedules. This allows you to distribute the teaching load according to your needs, without neglecting other areas of your personal or professional life. An excellent opportunity offered to dental professionals who want to update their knowledge through a high-level educational program. 

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This professional master’s degree in Updated Pediatric Dentistry contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• More than 75 clinical cases presented by experts in comprehensive pediatric dentistry. The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional
• Diagnostic-therapeutic developments on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in comprehensive pediatric dentistry
• It contains practical exercises where the self-evaluation process can be carried out to improve learning
• Iconography of clinical and diagnostic imaging tests
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• With special emphasis on evidence-based medicine and research methodologies in comprehensive pediatric dentistry
• All this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Over 12 months you will learn in depth about the main techniques in Pediatric Dentistry. All this online and with the most up-to-date content"

The teaching staff includes professionals from the field of comprehensive pediatric dentistry, who bring their experience to this training program, as well as renowned specialists from leading scientific societies.

The multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training program to train in real situations.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, whereby the student will must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the dentist will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of comprehensive pediatric dentistry with extensive teaching experience.

It provides an in-depth study of the surgical preoperative period in Pediatric Dentistry and the main techniques applied in dental restoration"

An educational program in which you will delve into oral care and the latest studies on dental trauma"

The main objective of this professional master’s degree is to achieve up-to-date knowledge in Pediatric Dentistry through a comprehensive and detailed syllabus, which allows them to study, in depth, the different areas covered by the comprehensive dental care in pediatric patients. A goal that will be achieved throughout this university program through an enriched multimedia content that is at the academic forefront. 

Update your work strategies with a comprehensive approach to the patient, thanks to this professional master’s degree" 

General objectives

• Update the professional's knowledge in the different areas covered by comprehensive dental care in pediatric patients from birth to 14 years of age, through data based on scientific evidence
• Promote work strategies based on a comprehensive approach to the patient and individualized attention to each child according to their age and medical, dental and emotional needs
• Encourage the acquisition of technical skills and abilities, through a powerful audiovisual system, and the possibility of development through online simulation workshops and/or specific training
• Encourage professional stimulation through continuous education and research
• Promote understanding of the integral and multidisciplinary nature of pediatric dentistry, the importance of orderly, systematized and ethical teamwork and the role of the dentist working with the pediatric population as a health educator for children and their families

Specific objectives

Module 1. Pediatric Dentistry: Basics 

• Identify and describe the stages of cognitive, emotional and social development of children and adolescents 
• Recognize the psychological profile of the child and adolescent 
• Assess possible patient behavior in the dental clinic 
• Analyze the factors that impact the child’s behavior 
• Establish the different classifications of patients according to their behavior 
• Describe non-pharmacological behavior management techniques 
• Explain pharmacological management alternatives for uncooperative children 
• Distinguish the different levels of sedation from each other and from general anesthesia 
• Explain the action protocols in each case 
• List the most commonly used drugs for sedation and their antagonists 
• Describe the inherent advantages and risks in the pharmacological sedation procedure 
• Perform adequate basic behavioral guidance in patients according to their ages and cognitive and emotional capacities 
• Explain the different stages of tooth formation and their chronology 
• Define the evolution of the different teeth during childhood and adolescence and their characteristics 
• Identify and name temporary and permanent teeth 
• List the differences between primary and permanent teeth and their clinical implications 

Module 2. Growth and Development: Changes in Orofacial Structures and Associated Pathologies 

• Recognize and differentiate primary, mixed first and second stage and permanent teeth, clinically and radiographically 
• Describe the process a drug undergoes in a child's body from the time it is administered until it is excreted 
• Identify differences in drug pharmacokinetics between children and adults and in childhood between different ages 
• Review the main drugs used in pediatric dentistry 
• Explain the importance of the general clinical and stomatological examination in the pediatric patient 
• Recognize the need for systematic and careful collection of clinical data for an appropriate diagnosis 

Module 3. Psychology, Behavior and Behavioral Guidance 

• Provide the student with a work scheme that, once internalized, will make their clinical examination system effective and agile 
• Explain the appropriate diagnostic method in pediatric dentistry 
• Describe the different types of X-rays used in pediatric dentistry 
• Explain the advantages of the different complementary tests in each specific case 
• Choose the necessary complementary tests to diagnose the most common oral diseases or the risk of suffering them 
• Establish an appropriate treatment plan for child patients 

Module 4. Preventive Pediatric Dentistry 

• Recognize the structures that make up the healthy mouth of an edentulous infant and its physiology
• Reflect on the rationale and basics of baby dentistry 
• Value an early establishment of the dental home 
• Explain the multifactorial nature of caries and the multifaceted approach to caries prevention
• Explain the various methods of preventing dental caries and their application at different ages 
• Develop appropriate prevention and maintenance plans for each patient 
• Identify the most frequent deviations from normality in relation to tooth number and size, enamel, alterations and dentin structure alterations 
• Identify the origin and consequences of alterations in tooth number and size, enamel structure and dentin structure alterations 
• Define the criteria for the selection of complementary tests to correctly diagnose these disorders 
• Explain the criteria for selecting the appropriate therapeutic option in each case
• Reflect on the rationale and basics of baby dentistry 
• Value an early establishment of the dental home

Module 5. Pathology and Treatment of Dental Caries 

• Explain the criteria for selecting the appropriate therapeutic option in each case 
• Describe dental erosion 
• Understand the role of each etiological factor in the development of erosive lesions 
• Reflect on the current epidemiology of dental erosion and its multifactorial nature 
• Apply available tools to diagnose erosive lesions and establish their severity 
• Understand the role of each etiological factor in the development of caries lesions 
• Reflect on the current epidemiology of dental caries and its multifactorial nature 
• Apply the available tools to diagnose caries lesions 
• Differentiate the different evolutionary stages of caries lesions 
• Describe the concept of early onset or early childhood caries and their characteristics
• Explain the procedure and the steps to be taken for the correct obturation of cavities prepared for composite 
• Define some systemic diseases that impact the oral cavity 
• Learn to decide when it is necessary to use a preformed steel crown for the restoration of primary molars 
• Learn to determine when it would be possible to use a preformed posterior or anterior aesthetic crown for the restoration of temporary teeth 
• Be able to determine when it would be necessary to restore an anterior tooth using composite and an acetate crown 
• Describe the necessary steps (procedure, material and criteria) for the preparation of an anterior temporary tooth to be restored with composite and an acetate crown 

Module 6. Dental Pulp Pathology and Treatment

• Learn the clinical and radiological characteristics of the different pulp conditions in primary teeth 
• Apply the most appropriate protocol to determine the degree of damage to the temporal pulp 
• Describe the different techniques used in pulp therapy, as well as the possible obturation materials 
• Explain how and when pulp protection is performed on primary teeth 
• Explain how and when indirect pulp treatment is performed on temporary teeth 
• Explain how and when a pulpotomy is performed on primary teeth 
• Explain how and when pulpectomy is performed on primary teeth 
• Acquire criteria to choose which treatment will be performed in young permanent teeth with pulp alterations 
• Define how and when to perform direct pulp capping and indirect pulp capping in young permanent teeth 
• Describe how and when an apicogenesis is performed in young permanent teeth 
• Explain how and when apicoforming is performed on young permanent teeth 

Module 7. Dental Trauma. Diagnosis and Therapeutics 

• Recognize the main causes of dental trauma in childhood 
• Understand the critical importance of a correct diagnosis in determining the most appropriate treatment 
• Identify the necessary modifications in the diagnostic procedures for trauma in temporary teeth 
• Explain the diagnosis of the most frequent traumas in young permanent teeth 
• Recognize the differences between trauma to primary teeth and young permanent teeth 
• Acquire criteria to choose the treatment to be performed on a temporary tooth that has suffered dental trauma 
• Reflect on the therapeutic objectives to be established in the different situations of dental trauma that can occur in primary teeth 
• Apply the protocol of periodic controls established according to the type of trauma that the primary tooth has suffered 
• Describe the different after-effects that dental trauma to a permanent tooth can have on the permanent tooth itself or on the permanent successor 

Module 8. Oral Pathology in Pediatric Dentistry 

• Define the oral pathology most frequently observed in pediatric patients and its clinical and/or pharmacological management 
• Identify some systemic diseases that condition dental treatment 
• Learn what precautions to take in children with cardiac pathology, asthma or diabetes 
• Recognize the importance of the systemic phase in the clinical history 
• Recognize the importance of previous consultations in the case of underlying systemic disease 
• Know what precautions to take in children with hematological, renal or oncological pathologies 
• Recognize the importance of previous consultations in the case of underlying systemic disease 

Module 9. Pain Control Surgical Treatments in Patients 

• Recognize the phases of the painful process and the action that anaesthetic drugs have on it 
• Know the principles necessary to guide the behavior of pediatric patients during local anesthesia 
• Explain dosage in the administration of local anesthesia 
• Describe the proper way to perform local anesthesia techniques in children to obtain effective anesthesia prior to pain-producing dental procedures 
• Explain the basic principles of preoperative surgery in pediatric dentistry 

Module 10. Pediatric Orthodontics 

• Apply the extraction protocol in pediatric patients, especially in primary teeth 
• Describe the surgical treatment of the most common soft tissue disorders in children 
• Explain the indications for postoperative surgery in pediatric dentistry 
• Define the concept of therapeutic remineralization in incipient caries lesions 
• Recognize the main remineralizing agents currently used and reflect on their mechanisms of action 
• Explain the indications, contraindications and techniques for the use of different restorative materials 
• Acquire the necessary criteria to select the most appropriate material in each case 
• Identify the advantages of using absolute isolation when treating a cavitated caries lesion 
• Define the most frequent location of caries development in primary and permanent molars 
• List the necessary steps (procedure, material and criteria) for the preparation of a temporary molar to be restored with a preformed steel crown 
• List the necessary steps (procedure, material and criteria) for the preparation of a temporary tooth to be restored with a preformed aesthetic crown 
• List the necessary steps (procedure, material and criteria) for the preparation of a preformed steel crown for the restoration of a permanent molar

Module 11. Pediatric Patients with Special Care Needs. Medically compromised patients 

• Describe the most important causes and consequences of the premature loss of primary teeth 
• Explain the reasons behind the importance of space maintenance 
• Define what a space maintainer is and what types exist 
• Acquire criteria to justify the choice of a certain type of space maintainer on an individual basis 
• Explain the reasons behind the importance of the early treatment of harmful habits 
• Define the main types of harmful oral habits 
• Describe the main causes of oral habits and their most important consequences 
• Apply the different therapy protocols against oral habits and their justification 
• Describe some systemic diseases that impact the oral cavity 
• Recognize the importance of the systemic phase in the clinical history 
• Recognize the importance of previous consultations in the case of underlying systemic disease 
• Define the oral and dental disorders associated with the conditions discussed on this topic 
• Know what modifications need to be added to the treatment plan of a patient with a mental or sensory disability 
• Recognize the importance of the systemic phase in the clinical history 

Module 12. Relevant Topics in Dentistry 

• Encourage dentists to take an interest and join the network of professionals involved in the detection and reporting of child abuse and neglect 
• Identify the injuries generated by physical abuse in order to collaborate in the correct diagnosis and detection of child abuse cases 
• Describe the physical and behavioral indicators associated with physical abuse and physical neglect 
• Explain the role and obligation of the dentist in this social problem, as well as the means of complaint available to him/her 
• Recognize the importance of informed consent 
• Describe the most frequent medical emergencies that may occur in pediatric patients in the dental clinic and their clinical and/or pharmacological management 
• List some systemic diseases that condition dental treatment 
• Reflect on the changes that have taken place in the family structure and on its features in the last few decades 
• Explain the features of new families 

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