Managing Pulps & Pain in Primary Teeth

If you’ve ever looked at a primary tooth with caries and wondered whether to extract, restore or perform a pulpotomy, this course is for you.

Learn both traditional stainless steel crown preparation techniques and the Hall Technique, including clinical indications, case selection and hands-on placement.

Join Assoc. Prof. Cathy Snelling and Leah Hobbs for a highly practical, hands-on workshop designed to build your confidence in managing pulpal involvement in primary teeth and restoring them with stainless steel crowns.

✅ Prepare multiple primary molars

✅ Perform multiple pulpotomies on realistic manikins

✅ Seat multiple stainless steel crowns

✅ Review real clinical case studies

✅ Learn evidence-based treatment planning

✅ Receive a FREE ThroatScope with registration

✅ Earn 10 CPD points

✅ Lucky door prize of a Golden Ticket to OHAA Tasmania*

This isn’t a lecture where you sit and watch. You’ll be actively working, learning and practising skills that you can implement in clinic immediately.

📅 Saturday 1 August 2026

📍 One Dental, Castle Hill NSW (SITE)

With limited seats available, we expect this workshop to fill quickly as the Early Bird deadline approaches.

🎟️ Secure your place before 30 June and save on early bird prices.

Learning Outcomes

Develop your confidence in assessing dental pain, performing pulpotomies and placing stainless steel crowns in primary teeth

Biological Factors in managing Pulps in Primary Teeth 

• Review the morphology and histology of primary teeth and its relevance to caries progression 

• Discuss the general approach clinicians should take to maintaining pulpal health in primary teeth 

• Differentiate between signs and symptoms of different types of dental pain 

• List and discuss the specific factors that affect clinical decision-making and treatment 

• Discuss challenges involved in accurate pain diagnosis in children and adolescents 

• Differentiate between histological & clinical features of: 

  • a healthy pulp 

  • reversible pulpitis 

  • irreversible pulpitis 

  • a necrotic pulp 

Clinical Management of Pulps in Primary Teeth  

• Examine the evidence base that underpins treatment approaches to managing pulps in primary teeth 

• Discuss current organisational policies and procedures relevant to primary pulp management 

• Review and confirm the steps involved in performing a pulpotomy in a primary tooth 

• Review and confirm which restorative approach to use in conjunction with a pulpotomy 

• Complete several pulpotomies under rubber dam in an upper and lower deciduous molar in a simulation setting on a dental manikin 

• Review the indications for stainless steel crowns in primary teeth.

• Select, adapt and cement stainless steel crowns for primary molars.

• Complete the preparation and placement of stainless steel crowns in a simulation environment.

• Understand restorative options following pulpotomy treatment and when stainless steel crowns provide the most predictable long-term outcome

• Review a series of case studies to validate and reinforce the key principles of diagnosing and managing pulpal conditions in primary teeth 

* Plus, one lucky attendee will win a complimentary 3-day registration to the OHAA Tasmania Conference! T&Cs: All registered attendees will automatically be entered into the lucky door prize draw. Winner will be drawn at random during the course. Prize includes OHAA Tasmania 3 day Conference registration only and does not include travel, accommodation, meals or incidental expenses.