This seminar course is the first in a series of four such seminars that discuss essential aspects of clinical pediatric dentistry, with emphasis on the scientific evidence supporting contemporary practice. These four consecutive seminar courses over four semesters (two academic years) provide the pediatric dentistry graduate student with a conceptual basis for caring for the oral health of children. This initial seminar of sixteen two-hour sessions (32 hours) addresses: effective communication with children, strategies for management of children's behavior in the clinical setting, development of the dentition, clinical management of traumatic injuries to the oral cavity, and restoration of carious teeth.

This seminar course is the first in a series of four such seminars that discuss essential aspects of clinical pediatric dentistry, with emphasis on the scientific evidence supporting contemporary practice. These four consecutive seminar courses over four semesters (two academic years) provide the pediatric dentistry graduate student with a conceptual basis for caring for the oral health of children. This initial seminar of sixteen two-hour sessions (32 hours) addresses: effective communication with children, strategies for management of children's behavior in the clinical setting, development of the dentition, clinical management of traumatic injuries to the oral cavity, and restoration of carious teeth.