Pediatric dentistry has come a long way all over the world. Unfortunately, in India, it took its own time to arrive. For most part of the last 4-5 decades, we had excellent pediatric dentists as academicians, researchers and practitioners who used to treat everyone. The concept of exclusive pediatric dentistry and dental clinic was limited to very few/handful that too in metropolitan cities. The barrier was both in demand in form of awareness and supply in form of exclusive pediatric practitioners. It’s only in the last decade where we could see paradigm shift happening and now, we can boast that most parts of the country now have at least one dedicated child friendly practice but there is still lot more ground to cover. Now a days, more and more young practitioners are opting for it as they can visualize their aspirations and ambitions in this niche segment.
But is it that straight forward? The path is tricky and requires perseverance, grit and determination.Do you have what does it take to be Pedopreneur?
This session tries to find out why one should opt for exclusive pediatric dentistry in today’s times. How to go about it in form of setting it up, establishing in form of building the team and initial awareness. How to practice it form of armamentarium, record keeping, must have approached and methodologies. How to promote in form of reaching out to pediatricians, school programs, social media usage, digital marketing and constant zeal of learning and motivation to keep going. This vast course shall be covered in 3 different sessions.
