Department of Preventive and Paediatric Dentistry

ABOUT US

The Department of Preventive and Paediatric Dentistry provides a comprehensive platform for student training, patient treatment, research, and continuing professional development courses for general practitioners and dental professionals. Third-year year Odontology students study dental disease prevention, and fourth- and fifth-year students study paediatric dentistry. Across years I to IV, oral hygiene is studied through various disciplines. During the clinical practice, students’ work is supervised by teachers with clinical experience. Paediatric dentistry course is taught in the form of lectures, seminars, small-group tutorials, presentations of scientific publications, clinical practice, and independent work.

Therapeutic activities

The clinical department is one of the specialised clinics in Lithuania providing dental care for children. Patients are consulted for early childhood tooth decay, complex dental traumas, non-caries conditions of dental hard tissues, periodontitis, oral mucosa diseases, as well as in view of the concomitant rare genetic diseases. In children’s dental caries surgical treatment, minimally invasive methods are employed. If indicated, children may be treated under general anaesthesia.
Considerable focus is placed on the development and execution of programmes aimed at the prevention of dental caries in children, professional oral hygiene, assessment of the individual risk of dental caries, and monitoring of activity.