Pediatric Dentistry for Special Child

Pediatric Dentistry for Special Child is a comprehensive and highly illustrated guide to dentistry for children with special needs.

The book is divided into thirty-five chapters across eight sections, covering learning disabilities, physical disabilities, medical disorders, genetic disorders, emotional and behavioural disorders, and more. The final section covers pharmacological behaviour management in dentistry for children with special needs, including chapters on pre-medication, nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation sedation, general anaesthesia, and paediatric dentistry in hospital.

Pediatric Dentistry for Special Child covers a wide range of conditions, from Cerebral Palsy to liver disorders, cleft lip and palate, and dyslexia. Each chapter provides management strategies, relevant to a particular paediatric disability. This book is enhanced by over 360 full colour images and illustrations, making it an ideal reference guide for paediatric dentists and paediatricians.

Key Points

• Comprehensive reference guide to dentistry for children with special needs
• Covers a wide range of conditions including learning, physical, medical  and genetic disabilities
• Includes management of children with emotional and behavioural disorders, and learning difficulties
• 364 full colour images and illustrations

Priya Verma Gupta MDS FPFA
Professor and Clinical Head-Suneedhi, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Divya Jyoti College of Dental Sciences and Research, Modi Nagar, Niwari Road, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Associate Editor

Amitha M Hegde MDS
Professor and Head, Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, AB Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India