Building Strong Foundations: Infant Dental Care Essentials

### Überblick Essential knowledge about oral health in infants and its contribution to overall health and development. Suitable for dental professionals and caregivers alike, this webinar provides the essential knowledge needed to support early dental well-being using a holistic, preventive approach. ### Lernziele - **Oral health in infancy**: Define what constitutes "oral health" in infants and how to conceptualize a healthy oral environment from the start. - **The importance of milk teeth**: Understand why primary teeth matter, not only for function and esthetics but for long-term child development. - **Fundamentals of caries prevention**: Learn the basic educational messages about oral hygiene practices, nutritional guidance, and fluoride use. - **Breastfeeding & oral health**: Recognize how breastfeeding relates to oral development, its protective and risk factors. - **Growth & development**: Appreciate how functional patterns in infants (e.g. tongue posture, muscle activity) shape anatomical development. - **Soothers & oral development**: Consider how pacifiers, thumb-sucking, and other "comfort" devices influence dento-alveolar growth. - **Tongue & lip ties**: Gain awareness of how ankyloglossia and labial ties may impact feeding, oral function, and development. ### Kursdetails - **Dauer**: 1 Stunde - **Format**: Online-Webinar - **Sprache**: Englisch - **Zertifikat**: CE-Zertifikat verfügbar