Pediatric Dentistry Seminars & Hands-On Courses

Live and workshop-style learning offers something structured online courses cannot fully replicate: the opportunity to hear how experienced clinicians reason through pediatric cases in real time, engage with case-based discussion, and ask questions in context. This page is for dentists and pediatric specialists looking for seminar and workshop-format education in children's dentistry — when and where those opportunities are available through OHI-S.

Why Live Learning Matters in Pediatric Dentistry

Pediatric dentistry involves a layer of clinical complexity that goes beyond technique — reading patient behavior, adapting communication for different ages, reasoning through pulp therapy pathways under time pressure, and making trauma decisions with incomplete information. These are areas where watching an expert think out loud in a live setting carries distinct educational value.

Workshop-style education creates space for the kind of discussion that deepens clinical judgment: case-based exchange with faculty, peer comparison of treatment approaches, and focused Q&A on topics like restorative decision-making in primary teeth, trauma follow-up logic, or behavior guidance strategies. For dentists who see pediatric patients regularly, that concentrated engagement often translates more directly into practice than passive content consumption alone.

What Pediatric Dentistry Seminars and Workshops May Cover

When live-format education is available through OHI-S, pediatric dentistry seminars and workshops draw from the core clinical range of the specialty — explored through real-time discussion, case review, and direct faculty interaction:

• Behavior management — guidance strategies and child-parent-dentist communication discussed in an interactive format where questions and scenarios can be explored in real time
• Caries management and prevention — minimally invasive treatment and fissure sealing approached through case discussion and indication-based reasoning
• Pulp therapy — pulp capping decisions, pulpotomy sequencing, apexogenesis, and apexification reviewed through live case analysis with faculty input
• Dental trauma in children — recognition and follow-up logic for traumatic injuries to temporary and permanent teeth explored through scenario-based discussion
• Restorative and crown care — restorative choices for primary teeth and crown selection discussed with direct lecturer interaction
• Diagnostics and radiographs — X-ray interpretation and non-carious lesion recognition reviewed in a focused group learning environment
• Referral and treatment planning — when to treat, monitor, or refer — explored through real case scenarios and faculty-guided discussion

When Event-Format Learning Is Especially Useful

For pediatric dentistry, live education tends to be most valuable in areas where clinical judgment is as important as technical knowledge. Behavior management, for example, benefits from seeing how experienced practitioners adapt their communication in real scenarios — something a recorded lecture captures only partially.

The same applies to trauma decision-making, pulp therapy sequencing, and restorative case selection: topics where the reasoning process matters as much as the outcome. A pediatric dentistry conference session or workshop that allows direct faculty interaction and peer case discussion can strengthen that reasoning in ways that complement structured online study.

For general dentists, live pediatric dentistry education is also a practical environment for refining referral judgment — understanding more precisely which cases to manage in-house and which require specialist involvement.

Online and Free Learning Are Available Now

Live pediatric dentistry events through OHI-S are selected rather than frequent. If you are looking for immediate access to structured paediatric dentistry education, the online courses and free learning formats offer the broadest and most consistent availability — covering the same clinical range in a format you can start today. Links to both are in the Next step section below.

Next Step

Looking for a different format? Explore other pediatric dentistry learning options on OHI-S:

• Explore the Pediatric Dentistry Learning Hub
• Explore Online Pediatric Dentistry Courses
• Access Free Pediatric Dentistry Learning