Pediatric Emergencies

3 Contact Hours

Course Outline

  1. Legal Responsibility
  2. Emergencies in Children Rare
  3. Fractured Teeth
  4. Partially-Developed Teeth
  5. Luxation
  6. Avulsed Tooth
  7. Infant Resuscitation
  8. Child Resuscitation
  9. Febrile Convulsions
  10. Petit Mal

Appendix

Post-Test


Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you’ll be able to:

  1. Define medical emergency.
  2. Describe legal responsibilities of a dental hygienist in a medical emergency.
  3. Describe the need for the dental hygienist to be conversant with various pediatric dental emergencies and appropriate treatments.
  4. Discuss the fracture of the crown listing three classes under the Ellis system to describe the extent of damage to the root.
  5. Describe the application of two treatments involving the status of the root development: apexogenesis and apexification.
  6. Distinguish between the treatment for teeth that are luxated on the basis of whether they are primary or permanent.
  7. Define avulsed tooth.
  8. Discuss the optimum conditions under which an avulsed tooth can be success fully replanted.