Welcome to the Pop Seminars

About the Pittsburgh Pop Seminars (Pediatric Oral Pathology)

The Pediatric oral pathology (Pop) Seminars were begun in 1977 as a joint, interstate effort between the Department of Dentistry, Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) and the Department of Oral Pathology, West Virginia University School of Dentistry, Morgantown, West Virginia. They were intended to provided hands-on discussion opportunities for pediatric dentists and pediatric dentistry residents interested in lesions of the orofacial region in children and young adults. Weekly afternoon seminars were offered during the Fall Semester in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, with Dr. Jerry Bouquot, Chairman of the WVU Department of Oral Pathology, presiding as monitor and discussion leader. During this entire time the Pittsburgh Children's Hospital has been a gracious and kind host to the seminar participants and organizers.

The seminars are participation discussions of clinical cases, with participants being provided "notebook cases" a week ahead of time, with appropriate photos, historical and clinical information provided. Participants are expected to come to the next seminar with a differential diagnosis, a diagnostic work-up plan and a management plan for each case. They are called upon individually and treat the cases, as best they can within the limits of the format, as their own patients. Each seminar encompasses lesions which can be included in a similar differential diagnosis category. From time to time special topics are provided in a more traditional lecture format, and these may carry over several seminars. As of June, 2000, there had been discussion of more than 960 clinical cases.

The Pediatric Oral Pathology Seminars provide up to 20 hours annually (2 hours/seminar) of continuing education recognized by the state licensing boards. One and 1/2 hours of this meet the infection control requirement.

Seminar Format & Objectives
Pediatric Oral Pathology
Seminar Format & Objectives

Fall/Spring Semesters, 2000/2001; Fridays, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA

Course Objective: To provide participating students with clinical experience and expertise in the diagnostic workup, the diagnosis and the treatment of soft and hard tissue lesions of the maxillofacial region, excluding routine caries and periodontal disease.

Course Format: Clinical cases, with photographs and brief medical/dental histories and descriptions, are provided at least one week prior to class; students are allowed to review texts and the literature in preparation for discussion of the cases. During the class, individual students are assigned to each case and asked to provide their differential diagnostic opinions, additional diagnostic information of importance, treatment options, and prognosis with those treatments. Both students and moderator discuss the clinicopathologic features of each case and of other diseases in the differential diagnosis.

	Seminar Topic	Case Numbers	Date
1	Introduction and review of diagnostic techniques	a-e	Nov. 3
2	Mucosal discolorations, Part I: white lesions	1-6	Nov. 17
3	Mucosal discolorations, Part II: other colors	7-12	Dec. 1
4	Mucosal blisters, sloughs and ulcers	13-18	Dec. 8
5	Facial skin lesions	19-24	Dec. 15
6	Funny looking teeth	25-30	Dec. 22
7	Radiographic lesions	31-36	Jan 26
8	Orofacial masses	37-42	Feb 2
9	Review and student presentations