Department of Child Oral Health

Orthodontics diagnosis and fixed appliance mechanotherapy 2.

·         Role of Removable Appliance in Treatment of Class I Malocclusion

·         Class II Div. I Incisor Malocclusion.  Class II Div. II Malocclusion

·         Class III Incisor Relationship.

·         General Principles of Fixed Appliance in Treatment of Malocclusion.  Advantages and Disadvantages of Fixed Appliance. 

·         Cephalometric X-ray (Cephalometric landmarks, planes, points).

·         Digital Radiography

·         Functional appliances.  (Classifications/ types, role of functional appliances in orthodontic treatments/and in interceptive orthodontics).

·         Orthodontic – surgical management of cleft lip/palate patients and other cranio-facial abnormalities. The concept of team approach in the management of such patients. 

·         General guidelines for orthognatic surgery/orthodontic cases.

·         Adult Orthodontics

Practical demonstration/wire bending (Adam’s clasp, labial bow). 

Orthodontics Diagnosis, treatment planning and Removable appliance mechanotherapy 1

·         Orthodontic Diagnosis and Treatment Planning.

·         Appliance Therapy

·         Concept of Interceptive Orthodontics including detection of incipient malocclusions and appropriate early treatment. 

·         Serial Extraction/Guided eruptions.

·         Delayed Eruption of the Maxillary Canine.

·         Space maintainers. 

·         Maxillary Mid-line Diastema

·         Supernumerary Teeth

  • Principles of Removable Appliance.  Design and Construction of Orthodontic Appliances – Adams  Clasp, Base Plate and Force Component. 

·         Advantages and Disadvantages of Removable Appliances.  

·         Bite Planes – Anterior Bite Plane. 

  • Laboratory exposures in fabrication of removable appliances.

Malocclusion

·         Aetiology of Malocclusion including Skeletal Factor, Soft Tissue Factors, Local Factors and Genetic Factors.  

·         Classification and Diagnosis of Malocclusion, Edward Angle’s Classification

·         Oral Habits

·         Malposition of Teeth, Malrelation of the Arches.

·         Classification of Skeletal Pattern, Methods of Assessing Skeletal Pattern.

·         Methods of Investigating and Recording Soft Tissue Form and Function. 

·         Crowding, Measurement of Crowding. 

·         Local Factors in Aetiology of Crowding.

·         Space analysis with practical sessions

Occlusal Indices

Developmental, nutritional and special care dentistry

·         Developmental anomalies in children including cleft lip and palate

·         Child abuse and dentistry

·         Children with special health care needs; oral health care.

.          Nutrition and oral health

The Undergraduate Course in Orthodontics

·         History of Orthodontics (Introduction). Definition of Orthodontics, Scope of Orthodontics.

·         Early Development of the Face. 

·         Growth and development of the cranio-facial complex (Post-natal growth of the skull, face, mechanism of skull/facial growth, the concept of theories of growth).

·         Development of Occlusion

·         Soft Tissue influence on Occlusion (The Lips, Cheeks, Tongue, Muscles). 

·         The concept of ideal occlusion in the primary and permanent dentitions. 

·         Eruption and Classification Pattern of Primary and Secondary Dentitions.

·         Biology of tooth movement


Common soft and hard tissues conditions; diagnosis and management

·         Tooth discoloration in children

·         Soft tissue lesions in children

·         Acute local infective lesions in children

·         Premature loss of teeth in children including space maintainers.

·         Dentures in primary dentition


Introduction to Pediatric Dentistry

·         Introduction to Paediatric Dentistry.

·         Growth and development of the skull.

·         Development of primary dentition, calcification, eruption and establishment of normal occlusion-mixed dentition: eruption of permanent dentition.

·         Morphology of primary dentition; function of primary dentition, differences between primary and permanent dentition.

·         Child psychology and behaviour management in relations to dental practice

·         History, examination, diagnosis, and treatment planning in children dentistry.

Management of dental caries and trauma in children

·         Dental caries

·         Pain control in children (LA, Sedation and GA)

·         Pulp therapy in primary and young permanent teeth

·         Management of injuries(trauma) to anterior teeth

Stainless steel crowns