Oro-facial problems interfere with a child’s normal lifestyle by impairing mastication, deglutition, and aesthetics and causing pain and discomfort. The pediatric dentist is concerned with restoring or replacing hard and soft tissues and maintaining optimum oral health, functions, aesthetics, and comfort in children. The continuous evaluation in pediatric dentistry brought many changes in clinical practice. The interest in the early detection of orofacial and dental problems with imaging and diagnostic aids has been growing in recent decades. The comprehensive treatment for children should be a built-in close response to the child’s complex oral conditions, psychological state, and willingness to undergo prolonged treatments. In short, clinical pediatric dentistry can be best viewed as the prevention of the worsening of disability, treatment of injured or ailing patients, and restoring/maintaining optimal oral health and functions. There are various difficulties in managing dental problems, from simple tooth decay to complex oral rehabilitation. Clinical pediatric dentistry should address the difficulties in the oral cavity and the psychosocial situations of growing children. This Special Issue invites systematic reviews, meta-analyses, recommendations, policy guidelines, original research manuscripts, case reports, narratives, scoping reviews, technical reports, and short communications to enhance contemporary research in clinical pediatric dentistry.

Dr. Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni
Guest Editor

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• behavior guidance
• conscious sedation
• dental abnormalities
• dental caries
• dental malocclusion
• restorative materials
• impacted teeth
• interceptive orthodontics
• pain management
• preformed crowns
• preventive dentistry
• imaging in pediatric dentistry

Title: Retention rate of Prefabricated Zirconia Crowns Cemented with Self-Adhesive Resin on Primary Teeth: A retrospective cohort Study
Author: Alrashdi
Highlights: The self-adhesive resin cement can be an option for PZCs cementation with a reasonable success rate not less than other cements like GIC, RMGIC, or Bio ceramic cement.