New Research Progress in Clinical Pediatric Dentistry: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Dentistry & Oral Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2026
Special Issue Editor
2. Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Ar Rayyan, Riyadh 14212, Saudi Arabia
Interests: dental anomalies; hospital dentistry; preventive orthodontics; special care dentistry; dental materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Orofacial problems interfere with a child’s normal lifestyle by impairing mastication, deglutition, and esthetics and causing pain and discomfort. Pediatric dentists are concerned with restoring or replacing hard and soft tissues and maintaining optimum oral health, function, esthetics, and comfort in children. The continuous evaluations conducted in pediatric dentistry have brought many changes into clinical practice. The interest in the early detection of orofacial and dental problems with imaging and diagnostic aids has been growing in recent decades. Comprehensive treatments for children should act as built-in responses to the child’s complex oral conditions, psychological state, and willingness to undergo prolonged treatments. In short, clinical pediatric dentistry can be best viewed as the prevention of the worsening of disability, the treatment of injured or ailing patients, and the restoration/maintenance of optimal oral health and function. There are various difficulties in managing dental problems, from simple tooth decay to complex oral rehabilitation. Clinical pediatric dentistry should address difficulties in the oral cavity and those relating to the psychosocial situations of growing children. This Special Issue invites authors to submit systematic reviews, meta-analyses, recommendations, policy guidelines, original research manuscripts, case reports, narratives, scoping reviews, technical reports, and short communications to enhance contemporary research in clinical pediatric dentistry
Dr. Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- behavior guidance
- conscious sedation
- dental abnormalities
- dental caries
- dental malocclusion
- restorative materials
- impacted teeth
- interceptive orthodontics
- pain management
- preformed crowns
- preventive dentistry
- imaging in pediatric dentistry
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