Pedodontics or Pediatric Dentistry: It is a branch of dentistry which deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of dental conditions in Deciduous and Permanent teeth in children and adolescents.
Any branch of dentistry is an aggregation of contributions from various scientists in various aspects of dental treatment procedures and techniques which help in enhancement of treatment modalities in children.
Scientists who contributed to Pedodontics:
- Addleson: Tell-show-do technique
- Bandura: Social Learning theory
- Bandura: Modelling
- Baume: Classification of occlusion for primary teeth
- Bodecker: Fissure eradication
- Buonocore: Acid Etching
- Bowen: BIS-GMA resin
- Davis: Early childhood caries
- Eric Erickson: Psychological theory
- Humphrey: Stainless steel crowns
- Hyatt:Prophylactic odontomy
- Herman: Calcium Hydroxide
- Jacobi: Nursing bottle caries
- Jordon: HOME technique
- Keyes: Caries triad
- Massler: Rampant caries, Hierarchy of needs
- Miller: Acidogenic theory
- Newbrun: Caries tetrad
- Nance: Father of serial extraction
- Piaget: Cognitive theory
- Pavlov: Classical conditioning theory
- Skinner: Operant conditioning theory
- Sigmond Freud: Psychoanalytic theory
- Winter et al: Nursing bottle caries
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