Under the supervision of the respected Dean of the College of Dentistry, Professor Dr. Raghad Abdel-Razzaq Mohammed.
The College of Dentistry at the University of Baghdad organized a continuing education course in the branch of pediatric and preventive dentistry, entitled (Nutrition, oral health care and children’s disorders), in the presence of a number of faculty members in the college.
The course aimed to inform the participants about the effect of the habit of clenching teeth during the night in children, the harms of this habit, safety methods and prevention of its risks, as well as identifying the genetic disease in children (Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome))
The course included a full explanation of the quality of nutrition being very important to humans throughout their lives because it affects children growth and helps prevent many systemic diseases in adults and malnutrition in the elderly. The course also reviewed the restorative treatment of dental caries, the most common and costly disease in the world. It is the most common infectious disease among children
It included four days with different themes:
1) The dangers of nocturnal dental clenching in children
2) Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome in children
3) Nutritional considerations in pediatric dentistry
4) Restorative treatment of dental caries in children’s primary teeth
The course recommended the need to adhere to appropriate clinical guidelines for the treatment and prevention of clenching in children, and that the treatment of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrom disease depends on the severity of symptoms in patients, and that the restorative treatment of decideous teeth depends on the results of the clinical examination, which is an ideal part of the comprehensive treatment plan.
