Kanika Gupta Verma

Title : Aesthetics in Pediatric Dentistry

Abstract:

Various conditions like dental caries, hypoplasia, discolorations, fractured tooth etc leads to impairment of aesthetics, affecting the overall personality of children and adolescents. Now-a-days aesthetics is the main concern among youngsters and their parents. This led to the development of better, and superior dental materials that mimic the natural tooth efficiently. Besides the improvement of dental materials, a rapid advancement have been observed in different treatment modalities for designing the smile in a better way. More esthetic solutions are available for pediatric population, including aesthetic space maintainers, biological restorations, esthetic post and core, aesthetic restorations etc. Introduction of latest methodologies for restoring the decayed teeth has come as a boon to the dentistry. With the globalization, dentistry has entered into a new era of consciousness where children and adolescents wish to look even better. They wish to attain better aesthetics, a beautiful and confident smile. The best solution to all these complex problems can be efficiently managed by a skilled Pedodontist. The modern day demand of youngsters and their parents is a charming smile, being offered by superior esthetic solutions. Restorative materials like composites, ormocers, compomers, Glass ionomer cements etc are offering a way beyond desirable esthetic results. These restorative materials are being used to manage conditions like Early childhood caries, nursing bottle caries, rampant caries, fractured tooth etc. Innovations in space maintainers like aesthetic space maintainers, glass fibre reienforced maintainers, simple wire space maintainers etc have replaced the traditional space maintainers. Aesthetic posts like glass fibre, carbon posts, glass posts etc have replaced the traditional non-aesthetic post systems. Biological restorations using natural tooth are upcoming aesthetic solutions for restoring tooth to its original form and function.

Biography:

Dr Kanika Gupta Verma received her Bachelor’s in Dentistry from Govt Dental College & Hospital, Amritsar, Punjab in 2005; and Masters in Paediatric & Preventive Dentistry from Guru Nanak Dev Dental College, Sunam, Punjab in 2009. She is fellow in Scientific writing and Clinical trials. She has been working as an active academician since 13 years, with a keen interest in aesthetic and surgical management of children and adolescents. She is teaching both graduates and post graduates in the field of child oral health care. She is presently working as Professor in Deptt of Paediatric & Preventive Dentistry, Teerthankar Mahaveer Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad. She is also a life member of Indian Society of Paediatric & Preventive Dentistry; and Indian Dental Association. She has around 65 national and international publications on her name. She is author and contributor to various books. She has delivered various lectures in National and International Conferences. She is reviewer and editorial board member of various national and international journals.