Paediatric Dentistry

Research methods are a key part of clinical dentistry. This unit will aim to introduce students to patient-centred research methods and will include evidence-based dentistry, critical appraisal, research governance and ethics, quantitative and qualitative research methods, statistical appraisal of research reports.

This module introduces the basic concepts of clinical management of a patient including clinical governance, cross-infection control and radiology.

Dental Public Health involves the application of generic public health principles to the field of oral health. This unit will consider the theory of dental public health including oral epidemiology, oral health promotion and public health planning of dental services. Specific topics to be considered include: epidemiology of, and trends in,oral diseases and conditions, patterns of care, the theory of dental health education and oral health promotion and models of delivering care. The unit aims to provide a foundation of knowledge that will be applied in the second Dental Public Health unit where its practical application will be explored.

Dental public health involves preventing oral diseases, promoting oral health and improving quality of life through the organised efforts of society. The emphasis of the unit will be to develop students' analytical skills and application of theory to practical examples. This unit will cover health economics, screening, oral health promotion, international dental public health considerations and oral health needs assessment.

This module introduces the basic concepts of specialist paediatric practice, including diagnosis, treatment planning.

The aim of this module is to introduce the student to the more complex issues of specialist paediatric care, including inter-disciplinary management of patients.

This module will enable the student to have a deep understanding of Paediatric Dental Care planning and provision.

The purpose of this unit is to enable students to understand the principles of systematic review. It covers the defining characteristics and application of systematic reviews; how to search for and select relevant evidence; how to quality assess primary research articles; the key issues that may generate bias; and the general principles governing evidence synthesis.

Research is key to the practice of clinical dentistry. This unit will introduce students to the background reading and critical appraisal of the literature related to their chosen project.

This module will provide the clinical experience to develop the key skills of a specialist in Paediatric Dentistry, including diagnosis, treatment planning and management of patients with trauma and dental anomalies. By the end of the module the student will be competent at obtaining a comprehensive patient history, communicating with patients and their parents about their treatment, providing appropriate preventative advice and restorative treatment for children with caries. The student will understand the principles of clinical paediatric dentistry problem solving and treatment planning.

This module will provide the clinical experience to further develop the key skills of a specialist in Paediatric Dentistry, including diagnosis, treatment planning and management of patients with trauma and dental anomalies. By the end of the module the student will be competent at obtaining a comprehensive patient history, communicating with patients and their parents about their treatment, providing appropriate preventative advice and restorative treatment for children with caries. The student will understand the principles of clinical paediatric dentistry problem solving and treatment planning.

This module will provide the clinical experience to achieve the key skills of a specialist in paediatric dentistry, including the diagnosis, treatment planning and management of patients who are medically compromised. By the end of the module the student will be proficient at all the tasks necessary for the successful completion of specialist paediatric dentistry treatment, including obtaining a comprehensive patient history, communicating with patients and their parents about treatment, providing treatment for children with dental caries, dental trauma and dental anomalies, as well as clinical paediatric problem solving and treatment planning.

The unit introduces students to basic concepts and techniques such as hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation in statistics. Students will learn some simple statistical methods and the principles behind some advanced methods such as regression. It will equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and critically appraise statistics in research literature.The course is not aimed at 'doers' of statistics, that is, students who are going to design their own studies to collect and analyse their own data. It will not teach you how to analyse, present and report your own data.

This unit will introduce students to the aspects of a research project involving data collection, analysis, interpretation and reporting in the form of a thesis. On completion, students will be able to appraise results and construct arguments. This project can involve clinical research, health services research, laboratory study or elements drawn from two or three of these.