13th-14th Feb 2025
8.30AM-5PM both days

This is our flagship course that will provide you with the skills to manage paediatric dental patients successfully and confidently in the general dental environment. It is suitable for OHTs, dental therapists and dentists that deal with children.

We will be providing over 6 hours of hands-on, along with lecture components, so that the knowledge gained can complement the clinical skills you will learn. Along with the knowledge and skills sessions, we will also be providing you with behaviour management tools, as this is one of the biggest challenges in paediatric dentistry, with recordings from our clinic.

The course will include 14 hours of CPD and cover the following topics.

THE TOPICS INCLUDE:

1. How to examine compliant, non-compliant and very young children

2. What to look for and what to discuss

3. How, why and when to take radiographs on children

4. Current concepts in Dental Caries

5. Tools to prevent and arrest dental caries including a review of Silver Diamine Fluoride

6. Restorative materials, indications, contraindications, and success rates in paediatric dentistry

7. Hands on restorations, stainless steel crowns, sealants

   • Conventional and Hall Crown techniques

8. Hands on pulpal therapy in paediatric dentistry

   • Indication and contraindications

   • Materials

9. Space maintainers - hand on

10. Dealing with failures, non-compliant children, and difficult parents

11. Successful treatment planning with several case examples

12. We will also give you tips on how to talk to parents and children to get the best outcomes

VENUE:

Australian Dental Centre of Excellence

Level 1, 154 Ipswich Road

Woolloongabba, Brisbane, QLD 4102

*Price not inclusive of GST