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Advanced Dental Care 2018
Dentistry and Craniofacial Research
ISSN: 2576-392X
Page 43
October 08-09, 2018
Moscow, Russia
26
th
International Conference on
Advanced Dental Care
T
he close relationship between dentistry and medicine that has
been built up during the past 20 years - especially concerning
the control of pain, anxiety and stress – has made significant
advances in the dental care given to children with special needs,
and to the millions of developmentally disabled and medically
compromised patients to whom such treatment has not been
available in the past. The presentation describes years of clinical
experience and treatments given by author’s colleagues and
himself to these underserved children in the Department of
Pediatric Dentistry of the Hebrew University-Hadassah School
of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. This presentation gives
the theoretical background as well as shows - containing over
10 movies - samples of the various behavioral management
techniques and sedativemodalities that we use, and explains why
and howwe as a multidisciplinary team of dentists work together:
Pediatric Dentists, Orthodontists and Oral Surgeons all dealing
with the difficulties of managing patients with disabilities. Today,
the trend among parents and caregivers of patients with special
needs is to provide them with a comprehensive, efficient and well
planned dental care. This can only be achieved by a team, capable
of dealing with the complexity of the problems presented by these
very special patients.
shapiraj@cc.huji.ac.ilThe comprehensive and multidisciplinary
dental treatment of special needs and high risk
medically compromised children
Joseph Shapira
Hebrew University, Israel
Dent Craniofac Res 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C4-012