Kuwait Dental Board Pediatric Dentistry case studies
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The Kuwait Dental Board in Pediatric Dentistry is a specialty credential for dentists who want to be recognised for advanced training in the care of infants, children and adolescents, including children with medical, physical or cognitive needs. Candidates are typically graduates of a recognised dental programme who have completed, or are completing, specialty training in pediatric dentistry and who intend to practise within Kuwait's health system. The Kuwait Dental Board Pediatric Dentistry case studies are 5 cases and about 4,983 words.
1A 4-Year-Old Who Refuses to Open Her Mouth After a Previous Restraint
A 4-year-old girl attends a Ministry of Health polyclinic in Hawalli with her mother. She has cavitated lesions on 74, 75 and 84, and 64 has a large occlusal cavity with a history of food impaction and occasional night-time crying, though the mother is unsure whether this is dental.
1,024 words, about 5 min2Extrusive Luxation of an Immature Central Incisor After a Bicycle Fall
A 9-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department 3 hours after falling from a bicycle. He did not lose consciousness and has no other injuries apart from a lacerated upper lip.
932 words, about 5 min3High-Caries-Risk Toddler Whose Mother Declines General Anaesthesia
A 3-year-old boy is brought to a public dental clinic in Farwaniya by his mother. He has eight carious teeth: 51, 52, 61 and 62 have labial cavitation, 74 and 84 have large occlusal cavities with soft, easily excavated dentine and a history of food packing but no spontaneous pain, and 64 and 65 have early occlusal lesions.
1,025 words, about 5 min4Extraction in a Six-Year-Old With Severe Haemophilia A
A 6-year-old boy with severe haemophilia A (factor VIII activity below 1%, no inhibitors, on prophylactic factor replacement) is referred for dental care. Teeth 74 and 84 are grossly carious with pulpal involvement and are considered unrestorable; 75 and 85 have deep occlusal lesions that are restorable.
958 words, about 5 min5Unilateral Posterior Crossbite With a 2 mm Mandibular Shift in the Mixed Dentition
An 8-year-old girl is brought by her father because the front teeth 'do not meet properly'. She has a left unilateral posterior crossbite involving 54, 64 and 26, which occlude lingually to their mandibular opponents.
1,044 words, about 5 min