Jenny Abanto
Hands-on | Pediatric dentistry
- Paediatric dentistry specialist.
- She has obtained her MSc, PhD and Post-PhD in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
- Later, she obtained her Post-PhD in the field of Epidemiology for Mother and Child Health and Nutrition at USP, Brazil.
- She is currently Chair Professor in the Postgraduate course of Pediatric Dentistry for Babies, at the FAOA and São Leopoldo Mandic Dental Schools in Brazil, and Assistant Professor in Pediatric Dentistry Postgraduate course at the International University of Catalunya (UIC) in Spain.
- She is the Clinical and Scientific Coordinator of the Oral Health Area of the Study of Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life at the Public Health School of USP in Brazil. She is the author of 5 books focused on pediatric dentistry for babies.
Nationality: Brazil
Scientific areas: Hands-on (OMD)
10 of november, from 09h30 until 18h00
Room 3
Conference summary
Surgical techniques for ankyloglosis in neonates and infants
The tongue is an organ that participates in oral functions (sucking, swallowing, chewing, breathing and speaking), and these functions are developed in the first years of life and are responsible for craniofacial growth and development, biogenesis of the deciduous dentition, nutrition, communication , etc.
This hands-on aims to raise awareness of the functional impact of ankyloglossia on sucking, swallowing and chewing during the first year of life, to learn about the anatomical variability of the lingual frenulum, the transdisciplinary diagnosis for decision-making, and to differentiate surgical techniques explaining the surgical step by step through clinical cases and training of techniques in pig tongues.