Dear Colleagues,

Pediatric dentistry is taking on an increasingly important role in the dental work. Nowadays’ advanced pediatric dental research has a very wide spectrum, offering, on the one hand, evidence on the efficacy of innovative technologies, and on the other data on how traditional therapies are still extremely relevant. This is true for different topics within pediatric dentistry, such as child’s growth and development, behavior management in the dental environment, oral diseases diagnosis, prevention and treatment, and all issues related to special needs children. However, many areas of research on pediatric dentistry still remain to be explored.

Some of the areas need to be further investigated in the scientific world include:

• New re-mineralizing agents for non-invasive treatment of early and advanced caries lesions; especially in young and children with special needs;
• Bio-active materials and their application in endodontic and restorative therapies;
• The role of functional foods and nutraceuticals to maintain and promote child oral health;
• Preventive orthodontic treatments and advanced behavioral management and painless cares.

Another field of pediatric dentistry that should be explored with more attention is adolescence. Adolescence is a period of life in which the child begins to detach from the parental sphere with a consequent change in habits and/or lifestyles that could represent a risk to oral health. Teenagers should, therefore, be studied in order to promote a healthy lifestyle, important to make an adolescent develop into a healthy adult subject.

Papers addressing these topics are invited to be submitted for this Special Issue, including systematic reviews, protocol papers, clinical trials, and observational studies.

Dr. Maria Grazia Cagetti
Prof. Dr. Guglielmo Campus
Guest Editors

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• oral health promotion and prevention in children
• caries prevention and management
• re-mineralizing agents
• special needs children
• adolescents
• bio-active materials