Course Outline
- Legal Responsibility
- Emergencies in Children Rare
- Fractured Teeth
- Partially-Developed Teeth
- Luxation
- Avulsed Tooth
- Infant Resuscitation
- Child Resuscitation
- Febrile Convulsions
- Petit Mal
Appendix
Post-Test
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
- Define medical emergency.
- Describe legal responsibilities of a dental hygienist in a medical emergency.
- Describe the need for the dental hygienist to be conversant with various pediatric dental emergencies and appropriate treatments.
- Discuss the fracture of the crown listing three classes under the Ellis system to describe the extent of damage to the root.
- Describe the application of two treatments involving the status of the root development: apexogenesis and apexification.
- Distinguish between the treatment for teeth that are luxated on the basis of whether they are primary or permanent.
- Define avulsed tooth.
- Discuss the optimum conditions under which an avulsed tooth can be success fully replanted.