Practical training in modern, child - centered paediatric dentistry
Build confidence in paediatric dental care with practical, evidence-based training designed for real-world practice.
Why enrol?
- Build confidence with hands-on, child-centred techniques
- Learn evidence-based, minimally invasive paediatric care
- Gain practical skills you can use immediately
- Improve the child and family dental experience
- Train in a state-of-the-art simulation clinic
What you will learn:
- Place stainless steel crowns using the Hall technique and traditional preparation methods
- Safely and confidently use silver fluoride for caries arrest and prevention
- Perform atraumatic extractions to minimise anxiety and physical trauma
- Complete pulpotomies using modern materials and current paediatric guidelines
Course highlights:
- One-day, hands-on professional development course
- Delivered in person at the Simulation Clinic (Bligh)
- Focus on minimally invasive, evidence-based paediatric dentistry
- Guided practice using contemporary materials and child-centred scenarios
- Practical skills you can apply immediately in clinical practice
Who should attend?
- Oral Health Therapists and Dental Therapists.
- General dentists and recent graduates looking to strengthen their paediatric clinical skills
Register today and gain practical paediatric skills you can use immediately.
Learning outcomes
- Apply contemporary evidence-based approaches to the prevention and management of dental caries in paediatric patients
- Demonstrate appropriate behaviour guidance strategies to support positive dental experiences for children
- Select and implement minimally invasive treatment options for managing early and moderate carious lesions in children
- Perform key paediatric clinical procedures within the professional scope of practice of DTs and OHTs including atraumatic extractions of deciduous teeth, deciduous molar pulpotomies, and placement of stainless-steel crowns via a conventional preparation or the Hall’s technique
- Develop treatment plans that prioritise prevention, risk management and patient centred care for children and families
Course delivery method
In person, Sydney Dental School, Simulation Clinic
Additional Information
Participants must attend and actively participate in at least 75% of the face-to-face Program sessions to be eligible for completion recognition. Attendance will be recorded throughout the Program, and participants will be required to submit a self-declaration at the conclusion of the Program confirming that this attendance requirement has been met. Attendance records may be independently verified by the University if required.
Upon successful completion of the Program, participants will be issued with a Certificate of Completion from the University of Sydney.
For terms and conditions, please view here.