Pediatric dentistry is a specialized course of stomatology designed for postgraduate dental students, focusing on oral health management for children and adolescents. It has been listed as one of the first batch of national online model courses for medical professional degree postgraduate students. The course is carefully designed in terms of course content, course presentation and teaching mode. It systematically and comprehensively introduces common dental diseases, as well as complicated and rare oral diseases according to the characteristics of children's oral diseases in China. Pediatric dentistry involves knowledge from multiple disciplines of dental medicine. Additional guest speakers from other specialties are invited to give lectures. Special topics are also carefully orchestrated in the line with international standards, based on the advances in the clinical and basic researches, and innovative clinical technologies. Teaching in English is adopted throughout the course for better grasping the international frontier and further broadening students' horizons. Variable types of teaching modes, such as online and offline hybrid teaching, problem-based learning, case-based learning, flipped classroom and small group teaching, are applied to facilitate the combination of theory and practice, the timely absorption of the knowledge, and inspiration of innovative thinking.

This course is divided into five parts. It begins with Part 1, the advanced progress in children's oral health management, which is followed by Part 2, dental caries, pulp and periapical diseases, and dental trauma in the child and adolescent. Part 3, namely multidisciplinary oral health management for the child and adolescent, includes gingival diseases and periodontitis in children, developmental dental anomalies, dental disorders of children who are medically compromised or in need of special health care. Part 4 presents behavior management and oral surgery for the child and adolescent. Occlusive management for the child and adolescent is systematically introduced in part 5, focusing on the achievement of the functional perfection and aesthetic coordination of the cranio-maxillary appearance and occlusion.

Overall, this course combines the advances in both theories and clinical practice, highlights the pediatric dentistry with Chinese characteristics and incorporates the worldwide forefront, enables the postgraduates with strong critical thinking and abilities to provide compassionate and comprehensive care for all pediatric patients.