Paedodontics Flashcards
What is the most important thing to find out about a paediatric patient during first session?
Have they had any previous treatment - other than that it is just like a standard exam with taking of bitewings at around 3-4 years old
What is the essence of paediatric dentistry?
TIME - always be mindful of the time - time is money but in this case - time for the kid to be sick of you is not long
Why does caries progress rapidly in decidious teeth?
- Thinner enamel and dentine
- Wider dentine tubules
- Large pulp chambers
- Extensive pulp horns
What is the best practice for paedeatric dentistry?
Always - early diagnosis. Always - prevention, fluoride introduction, CPP-ACP therapy. Early restorative treatment.
What are some of the contraindications for extraction for a child?
- Haemophilia
- Von Willebrands disease
- Platelet disorder
What are some of the medical contraindications for pulpotomy?
- Congenetial heath disease
- Immuno-compromised
- Poor healing potential
- Special needs/ or sever disability
What are some of the tooth specific factors for tooth extraction/pulpotomy?
- Stage of dental development
- Pulpal status
- Restorable or not
- Space management
What would you except the abscess to come out for the infected primary dentition first?
Around the buccal or palatal and lingual area due to large forcassion of the deciduous molars and premolars
What are some of the steps to coming to a pulpal diagnosis for deciduous teeth?
- History of pain
- Clinical examination - extent of caries, mobility, swelling/fistula
- Investigation - pulp test and radiographs
What is important to know before prescribing anti-biotics for a child?
Make sure you are planning to extract the cause of the infection very very VERY soon
What are some of the contraindications for primary pulp therapy?
- Presence of radiolucency/caries in the furcation
- Internal or external root resorption including physiological root resorption
- Furcation or periapical bone lesions
What is the aim of pulp treatment?
- Remove the diseased and bacterially contaminated tissue
- Establish an environment that will prevent any further and future bacterial contamination
What are the 4 levels of endodontic treatment?
- Indirect pulp cap
- Direct pulp cap
- Vital pulpotomy
- Pulpectomy
What is the important pre-requisite for utalisation of vital pulpotomy?
Reticular tissue of the pulp (in roots) should be vital. In children - the pulpotomy should be covered by a stainless steal crown!!!
What are the objective of pulpotomy?
- Preserve vital pulp
- Resolve existing reversible pulpitis
- Maintain tooth symptom free
- Permit normal exfoliation
- Cause no harm to secondary successor
- Cause no internal resorption or canal calcification
What is a big contraindication for a vital pulpotomy?
- Extra-pulpal pathology
- Irreversible pulpitis
- Complex medical history - think infective endocarditis
What are the steps for pulpotomy?
- LA and isolation
- Prepare access to remove caries - may start occlusal reduction here aswell
- Remove caries
- Gain access to pulp chamber
- Remove entire roof of pulp chamber - do not forget about corners - use large bur (no perforations)
- Achieve haemostasis with dry cotton pellet
- Place medicament over radicular pulp stumps - MTA for example or Feeric Sulphate
- Condense IRM into the chamber
- Restore with GIC
- Restore with a stainless steel crown
What is Formocresol?
It is a material containing formaldehyde which a potent tissue fixative. It is bactericidal and devitalising to the tissue.
It has a success rate of above 90% but highly depends on the coronal seal.
Controversy: formaldehyde is a carcinogen but there is no study that shows formocresol causes carcinomas.
What are the different Zones of inlammed pulp?
What is Ferric Sulpahte?
It is a haemostatic agent but it is not bactericidal. It is also signifcantly less toxic.
Because it essentially acts a sealant for the vital tissue - it is less forgiving than formocresol.
Success rate is around 90% again.
What is MTA?
Mineral Trioxide Aggregate - portland cement. Excelent sealant, has anti-bacteria effect.
Very high success rates but it is quite expensive.
Why should we restore primary teeth?
- Eliviate pain
- Eleviate infections
- Impact on quality of life
- Impact on self esteem
- Potential development of fear and anxiety
- Effect on permanent dentition
- Occlusion trouble
- Medical implications