Pediatric Dentistry: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 207
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pediatric dentistry; oral cancer; oral pathology; dental materials; medical device
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a Special Issue on "Pediatric Dentistry: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment" in Applied Sciences.
Oral health is an important factor in the maintenance of general health, wellbeing, and overall quality of life. Envisioning a transformational change in the management of oral healthcare, this Special Issue welcomes manuscripts that can contribute the knowledge necessary to effectively manage oral prevention and oral healthcare.
This Special Issue will focus on pediatric oral health and prevention and their impact on clinical practice, current oral health literacy, and policies. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possibilities.
Preventive strategies should be implemented to reduce oral problems, due to the negative consequences on individuals and communities in terms of pain and suffering, functional impairments, and reduced quality of life. Psychosocial factors, such as improved awareness, knowledge, and attitudes toward dental health care in both children and adult patients, healthy or special needs ones, are included in general health status improvements.
Adopting multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary perspectives and a systems approach, expected submissions will cover the following topics:
- Oral prevention and oral healthcare management;
- Systems management for sustainability in oral healthcare organizations;
- Knowledge management in oral healthcare organizations;
- Education for oral healthcare sustainability;
- New technologies for oral healthcare sustainability;
- Oral prevention project for improving awareness and knowledge of oral health.
All original articles, case reports, and review articles will be welcome.
Dr. Iole Vozza
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- pediatric dentistry
- pediatric oral health
- oral prevention
- healthcare management
- oral education
- primary prevention
- secondary prevention
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