MdAPD Fall CE Meeting
Evidence-Based Dentistry: The North Star of Pediatric Practice Excellence
Date
November 14, 2025
Location
Turf Valley Resort
2700 Turf Valley Road
Ellicott City, MD 21042
6 CE Hours
Course Description
Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are based on well-done systematic reviews while assessing the certainty of evidence and balancing benefits and harms to patients’ values and preferences. Such guidelines are considered trustworthy and can be used by the clinicians to provide the highest quality of patient centered care in their practices. The ADA has published clinical practice guidelines on non-pharmalogical behavior guidance and on pulp therapies in primary and permanent teeth. The sessions will explore the evidence-based management of an at-risk pediatric dental patient and evaluate in-depth the basis and interpretation of the evidence-based findings for various therapies.
Course Objectives
- Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand the need and interpretation of clinical practice guidelines.
- Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand the evidence-based management of dental caries in children including preventative, nonrestorative, and restorative approaches.
- Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand the evidence supporting strategies for non-pharmalogical behavior guidance of a pediatric dental patient.
- Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand the evidence-based recommendations supporting vital pulp therapies (primary and permanent teeth) in children.
- Upon completion, the participant will be able to understand the evidence-based recommendations supporting non-vital pulp therapies in primary teeth.