Pediatric dentistry Puns

Hello, my name is Allen and I have been a Board Certified Pediatric Dental Specialist for 20 years. I have owned my pediatric dental practice in Texas for the past 20 years. I specialize in treating children of all ages but mainly focus on you g children ages 2-8. We provide comprehensive oral care to children that include cleanings, checkups, fillings, crowns, extractions, oral hygiene education counseling and guidance for parents. We also specialize in using different forms of sedation from laughing gas to oral sedatives to IV sedation as well as general anesthesia in a hospital or surgical center for the very young kids or extremely anxious scared kids that have extensive dental needs. Our training takes 2 additional years after we graduate from a 4 year accredited dental school. My proof has been privately verified by a moderator.

I was just wondering if there were any pediatric dentists who considered med school pediatrics first or vice versa. I really like working with kids and I have a ton of exposure to the dental community since my dad is a dentist, but I also find pediatrics interesting as well and a lot of child care experience. It's not a matter of which is easier bc my grades are v average (probably slightly below if I’m being honest) so I know either route will take a lot of work and improvement but I'm curious if anyone else experienced the same kind of confliction. I've yet to take the MCAT or DAT but this is partiality why i've been delaying for so long

tldr: why did you pick pediatrics over pediatric dentistry, or why did you pick pediatric dentistry over pediatrics?

Checking in from /r/dentalschoolanki!

Name : pediatric_dentistry

Number of cards : 201

Source : AAPD Handbook, 2020 IADT Guidelines, Novak's Pediatric Dentistry Infancy Through Adolescence, Pathways to the Pulp, Harty's Endodontics in Clinical Practice, Welbury's Paediatric Dentistry (2018), Andreasen's Traumatic Dental Injuries, Textbook and Color Atlas of Traumatic Injuries to the Teeth. Everything is cited in the "source" field of the card, accessible in the card browser.

Context : I created this deck to cover part of my pediatrics curriculum from first semester. TDI are one of the rare instances where we have international guidelines in dentistry so this is a great deck to review those guidelines. Lots left to cover, but this is a start :)

Subjects covered so far :

• Traumatology of the primary dentition
• Traumatology of the permanent dentition
• Dental avulsions
• Pulp therapy of the primary dentition
• Basis of root resorption and lot of other random info

Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_J4nGAR1dhm0pGMlYk8_XLI5-uqWu5Bb/view?usp=sharing

Pictures : Note, the screenshots of the IADT guidelines are high-ish quality so you can actually read what's on them

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I'm looking for a good, relatively up to date pediatric dentistry textbook to make Anki from. Our classes aren't textbook based so I don't have any good references. Ideally the book would have some nice pictures. Anyone got a good recommendation ?

Thanks!

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Lupine Publishers | Journal of Pediatric Dentistry

Abstract

Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease and the World Health Organization has identified it as a worldwide problem with 60-90% prevalence among school-age children. Dental caries is a topical contagious infectious disease that affects people of all ages and in any area of the world. Oral hygiene is a part of public health and oral and dental diseases affect different aspects of quality of life. DMFT is one of the indicators that the World Health Organization has introduced to determine the severity and prevalence of caries. One of the goals of the World Health Organization is to keep the DMFT index of students at less than 2. Different factors are effective in occurrence of dental and interdental caries that we discuss about them in this mini review.

Keywords: Decay Missing Filled Index, Dental Caries, Oral Hygiene, Tooth Decay

Abbreviations: WHO: World Health Organization; DMFT: decay-missing-filled index; BSS: Basic Screening Survey

Introduction

Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease and the World Health Organization [WHO] has identified it as a worldwide problem with 60-90% prevalence among school-age children [1]. According to statistics in European countries, 6.1% of children aged 6-12 have at least one decayed or missed tooth, and due to the prevalence of tooth decay in all social classes, this disease can impose heavy costs on society [2]. Also, according to the statistics in Iran, decay-missing-filled index [DMFT] was 0.2% among 6 to 9-year-old children and 0.9% to 1.5% among 12-yearold children. Also, DMFT was 1.7% in 3 to 6-year old children and 3.3 to 4.8% in 9-year old children [3]. Four important factors: host, germs of the oral environment, food and time, has a role in tooth decay, without each of which, tooth decay will not occur [4]. Therefore, oral hygiene is very important in preventing it. Prevalence of dental caries in 6 to 12-year old children is one of the most important health problems. This can directly and indirectly impair the health of children and teenagers, and this problem is common among low-income groups and groups that do not comply with oral hygiene standards, such as not using toothbrushes and floss, dental caries is much more severe and acute [5].

For my 2 year old 😁🦷

Name : pediatric_dentistry

Number of cards : 201

Source : AAPD Handbook, 2020 IADT Guidelines, Novak's Pediatric Dentistry Infancy Through Adolescence, Pathways to the Pulp, Harty's Endodontics in Clinical Practice, Welbury's Paediatric Dentistry (2018), Andreasen's Traumatic Dental Injuries, Textbook and Color Atlas of Traumatic Injuries to the Teeth. Everything is cited in the "source" field of the card, accessible in the card browser.

Context : I created this deck to cover part of my pediatrics curriculum from first semester. TDI are one of the rare instances where we have international guidelines in dentistry so this is a great deck to review those guidelines. Lots left to cover, but this is a start :)

Subjects covered so far :

• Traumatology of the primary dentition
• Traumatology of the permanent dentition
• Dental avulsions
• Pulp therapy of the primary dentition
• Basis of root resorption and lot of other random info

Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_J4nGAR1dhm0pGMlYk8_XLI5-uqWu5Bb/view?usp=sharing

Pictures : Note, the screenshots of the IADT guidelines are high-ish quality so you can actually read what's on them

https://preview.redd.it/wc1xozoddpb61.png?width=645&format=png&auto=webp&s=a2644bb760fefe87c1111ce6e23438a9e24c3407

https://preview.redd.it/7pa0c9pddpb61.png?width=636&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b1421b525efb51f06494c04d338f390984126d3

https://preview.redd.it/1y5zf6qddpb61.png?width=642&format=png&auto=webp&s=eb148705ecae4917e899a4c14d8a821fac284b0a