Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry (5^th Ed.)

Based on the understanding that oral health is an important social determinant of health, the latest edition of this internationally recognised handbook equips the reader with necessary skills and knowledge to provide truly integrative patient care.

The text goes beyond the technical skills needed to treat children's dental disorders. It covers assessment of a child's health and development, their oral health, the newest clinical interventions, and concepts of dental disease initiation and progression. It guides the reader through the management and communication skills needed to deal with children, and how to support their overall health behaviours.

Written by renowned authors Angus Cameron and Richard P Widmer, this text is an essential companion for all practitioners who treat children, including undergraduate dental students, general dental practitioners, specialist pediatric dentists, orthodontists and pediatricians.

• Emphasis on growth and development to support readers in their important role as pediatric oral physicians.
• Fully reviewed and rewritten to provide the latest thinking on dental caries, restorative pediatric dentistry, children with special needs, oral medicine, trauma, and dental anomalies.
• Readily accessible and written in a friendly 'how to' manner for use chairside.
• Full colour illustrations throughout.
• ''Clinical Hints' boxes to act as useful aide-mémoires.

1. The philosophy of paediatric dentistry: The philosophy of paediatric dentistry - What is paediatric dentistry?

2. Child development, relationships and behaviour management

3. Pharmacological behaviour management

4. Dental caries

5. Fluoride and dental health

6. Restorative paediatric dentistry

7. Pulp therapy for primary and immature permanent teeth

8. Clinical and surgical techniques

9. Trauma management

10. Paediatric oral medicine, oral pathology and radiology

11. Dental anomalies

12. Medically compromised children

13. Children with special needs

14. Management of cleft lip and palate

15. Speech, language and swallowing

Appendices:

Appendix A Blood and serum testing and investigations

Appendix B Paediatric life support

Appendix C Management of anaphylaxis

Appendix D Management of acute asthma

Appendix E Fluid and electrolyte balance

Appendix F Antibiotic prophylaxis protocols for the prevention of infective endocarditis

Appendix G Glasgow coma scale

Appendix H Common drugs usage in paediatric dentistry

Appendix I Radiology

Appendix J Ethics in paediatric dentistry

Appendix K Somatic growth and maturity

Appendix L Growth charts

Appendix M Eruption dates of teeth

Appendix N Construction of family pedigree

Appendix O Calculating fluoride values for dental products

Appendix P Covid-19 and paediatric dentistry

Angus was also appointed Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and is currently the Registrar (Special Field Streams) of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. In 2007, he was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Angus is co-editor of the Handbook of Paediatric Dentistry, now in its 3rd edition and translated into six languages. His major clinical interests are in the areas of paediatric oral medicine and pathology, dental anomalies and craniofacial biology.