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About OPD & Special Care Club

Who are we?

We are a group of young dentists around Oman from different nationalities, with same goals; to improve skills and quality of care towards patients.

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Oman Paediatric Dentistry & Special Care Club

Our vision: ‘Prevention Through Early Interventin & Ensuring Accessible Dental Services For All’

Our mission: “Aims for caries free dentition through preventive measures and parents’ education and when treatment is needed to be delivered in a pleasant and effective way”.

Our values:

  • Encourage brainstorming and creativity of each member.
  • Teamwork.
  • Respect for each other.
  • Being proactive.
  • Share information and experiences that will lead us to our main goals of establishing our forum.

3 main goals:

  1. CPD of members.
  2. Improve general dentist skills on management of children.
  3. Public education about caring for their children’s teeth.

Target  (2020 vision)

‘Improving oral health of pre-schoolers’.

i.e. those infants born in 2014 hopefully when they get to school by 2020 to be caries-free or minimal treatment is required (% ?).

(according to a survey done at Armed Forces Hospital in 2012 the prevalence of early childhood caries in children aged 2 to 5 years old was 59.48 %.

62.8 % of 2 years old were caries free and this figure decreased steadily as age increased with only 15.7 % of 5 years old were caries free).

How to achieve our goal:

  • A dental card to be given with the pink card, which includes:

Compulsory dental check-up when the child reaches 6 months and 6 monthly thereafter until the age of 5 years. Whenever possible hospital pharmacy should provide appropriate toothpaste to children at each checkup +/- toothbrush as prevention is cheaper than treating the disease (i.e. expenses of restorative materials, frequent prescriptions of analgesics +/- antibiotics and sedation/ GA services besides frequent absence from school and parents from work…etc).

The card should have guidance on what the dentist/therapist can do at each visit e.g. what toothpaste to recommend and the type of dietary advice to be given…etc + fluoride varnish applications. (See next page)

  • Other ways of conveying our message:
  • Actively participate in public events, such as Gulf week in March each year (which are usually backed financially).
  • Social media (website, Facebook, SMS, Tweeter  …etc.
  • Distribution of leaflets to:
    • Prenatal clinics.
    • Vaccination clinics.
    • Paediatricians, occupational therapists, dietitians, cardiologist…etc.
  • You can follow us on Facebook :’Oman Paediatric Dental Forum’. and  join whatsup group, which is strictly for dental topics, please send a message to clubpaedo@gmail.com

 

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