Course Description

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FIRST SMILES: DENTAL HEALTH BEGINS AT BIRTH
Category: Dental Assisting
Course Code:8106

Synopsis:
Early childhood caries is the most prevalent and preventable chronic childhood disease in California. This course will describe the problem and contributing factors of ECC and identify pathological and protective factors for dental disease in the young child.

Learning Outcomes:
1. ECC: What causes it and how to prevent it
2. Assessment and treatment for babies and young children
3. Putting it into practice

This course is presented in partnership with the American Dental Assistants Association.

Speaker(s):
Francisco Ramos-Gomez, DDS, MS, MPH