PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY

Learn about the importance of oral health and take an active role in preventing oral diseases in children or facial clefts.

Specialty: Perioperative Nursing
Subspecialty: Dentistry, Oral Health, Oral Disease Prevention
Target audience:Oral health practitioners and all other appropriate healthcare providers.
Level:Basic
Language: English

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Be aware of the importance of oral health.
Know how to prevent and identify oral diseases.
Know when to refer onwards.
Be prepared to disseminate what they have learned in their workplace.

Dr. Peter Mossey

Prof. Peter Mossey is Associate Dean for Internationalisation at the University of Dundee Dental School and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Craniofacial Anomalies. He leads the Craniofacial Anomalies theme in the WHO Global Burden of Disease Birth Defects Initiative and serves as Honorary Secretary of the Craniofacial Anomalies Group within the IADR Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network (GOHIRN). He is also an expert on the Smile Train/FDI project developing oral health and dental care guidelines for community dentists, cleft teams, and families affected by cleft worldwide.

Dr. Peter Mossey

Associate Dean for Internationalization at University of Dundee Dental School

Dr. Madaswamy S. Muthu

Chair of the Centre for Early Childhood Caries Research at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research

Dr. Madaswamy S. Muthu

Prof. M S Muthu is Chair of the Centre for Early Childhood Caries Research (CECCRe) at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, India, and Adjunct Research Associate at the Centre of Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University. He is a Paediatric Dentist and researcher with over 102 peer-reviewed publications, including 4 Cochrane reviews and 12 systematic reviews. His primary research focus since 2010 has been Early Childhood Caries (ECC), and he is the first Indian recipient of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's Paul P. Taylor Award (2020) for his systematic review on risk factors of ECC. Prof. Muthu holds a PhD (2010) and Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2016). He serves as Vice President of the Indian Society of Dental Traumatology, Chair of the Global Task Force on Cleft Without Caries, and member of the Membership Committee of the International Association of Pediatric Dentistry.

Marina Campodonico Frisch

Dr. Marina Campodonico graduated from the Universidad de Chile in 1986. She is a Paediatric Dentist working in private practice and at Fundación Gantz, a foundation for children with cleft lip and palate in Santiago, Chile, where she performs pre- and post-surgical orthopedic work. She served as Health Director for Special Olympics Chile (2014-2019) and has been a member of the IAPD 2017 Congress board and SCHOP (Chilean Society of Paediatric Dentistry). She teaches at both graduate and postgraduate level. Dr. Campodonico has been part of SAMAC for Smile Train since its inception and contributed to the Oral Health in Comprehensive Cleft Care project developed by Smile Train and FDI (2019-2021). She also collaborated with the Chilean Ministry of Health (2004-2008) on implementing the GES programme for children with cleft, and has served as an advisor for S4CC for the past four years.

Marina Campodonico Frisch

Pediatric Dentist at Fundación Gantz and Faculty Contributor

Omolola O Orenuga (Lola)

Professor and Consultant Paediatric Dentist at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos

Omolola O Orenuga (Lola)

Professor Omolola O Orenuga (Lola), BDS, FMCDS, MPH, MD, is a Professor and Consultant Paediatric Dentist at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Nigeria. She serves as Coordinator of Clinical Dental Services at LUTH and Chairperson of the Scientific Committee, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Lagos. She is Team Lead of the LUTH Orofacial Cleft Team and a member of the Smile Train/FDI/GSK Expert Panel that developed guidelines for oral health in comprehensive cleft care. She has served as President of the Nigerian Association of Paediatric Dentistry (NAPD) and as a member of the IAPD 2017 Scientific Committee. She also sits on the Advisory Board of Transforming Faces Canada and the Board of Trustees of the Children Arise Foundation.

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Smile Train

Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft-focused organization, with a sustainable and local model of supporting surgery and other forms of essential care. Over the last 20+ years, we have supported safe and quality cleft care for 1.5+ million children and will continue to do so until every child in need with a cleft has access to the care they deserve.

FDI

FDI World Dental Federation represents more than one million dentists across 133 countries. Its vision is to lead the world to optimal oral health through global advocacy, increasing oral health literacy, and promoting equitable access for all populations. FDI works with members to raise awareness of the importance of oral health and its role in overall wellbeing, encouraging political commitment through evidence on prevention, cost-effectiveness, and health outcomes.

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Oral Health in Comprehensive Cleft Care: Oral Health Professionals

What's in this course?

Learn about the importance of oral health and take an active role in preventing oral diseases in children or facial clefts.

Oral Health

Dentistry, Oral health, Oral disease prevention

Target Audience

Designed for oral health professionals and other appropriate healthcare providers

Varied activities

Didactic lectures, quizzes