After completing their 5-year undergraduate education in dentistry faculties, dentists who have received specialization or doctorate training in the department of pedodontics are called pedodontists.

• They ensure that children do not have fear of dentists.
• They make extractions of milk teeth and, if necessary, placeholder and child prosthesis.
• Pedodontists determine the caries risk group of the child and organize personal protective programs.
• They provide treatments to stop bad oral habits. (Finger sucking, nail biting, etc.)
• They organize and apply preventive practices that can be applied before tooth decay occurs.
• Pedodontists perform restorative and endodontic treatments of deciduous and young permanent teeth.
• They inform both the child and the family about oral and dental care in children.
• They control the regular progress of the child’s jaw and tooth development.