title: Paediatric dentistry experience of the first cohort of students to graduate from Dublin Dental School and Hospital under the new curriculum.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess undergraduate clinical experience in Paediatric Dentistry in students graduating under a new curriculum.
  
  
  METHODS
  An audit using logbooks completed by 34 students for all patients for whom they had provided treatment in the university paediatric dentistry clinic.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 177 child patients had received treatment from the students, age range 2-8 years. Students had performed an average of 13 restorative techniques. Sixty-eight percent had provided stainless steel crowns and 71% at least one pulpotomy for a primary tooth. All students had provided fissure sealants. Eighteen had carried out extractions and 8 had provided treatment for fractured incisors on this clinic.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The cohort of students included had a wide range of experience of paediatric dentistry which compared favourably with accepted guidelines. A relative lack of experience of dental extractions currently remains a problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public and Child Dental Health, Dublin Dental School and Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Finucane
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Nunn
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: O'Connell
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002983:Clinical Competence; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003442:Crowns; D003479:Curriculum; D019230:Dental Audit; D019140:Dental Care for Children; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008963:Molar / Q000473:pathology; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000193:education*; D010895:Pit and Fissure Sealants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011672:Pulpotomy; D012575:Schools, Dental; D013193:Stainless Steel; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D010895:Pit and Fissure Sealants; D013193:Stainless Steel