The October issue of the Journal of the California Dental Association covers pain principles and considerations in pediatric dentistry.

Improve Your Clinical Pain Practice With Children
An introduction to the issue
Dennis Paul Nutter, DDS

Good, Clinical Pain Practice for Pediatric Procedure Pain: Neurobiologic Considerations
This paper is one of several articles that present four characteristics of pain neurobiology that critically influence clinical decisions in pediatric procedure pain management.
Dennis Paul Nutter, DDS

Good, Clinical Pain Practice for Pediatric Procedure Pain: Iatrogenic Considerations
This paper will review the manner in which iatrogenic factors influence the management of pediatric procedure pain.
Dennis Paul Nutter, DDS

Good, Clinical Pain Practice for Pediatric Procedure Pain: Target Considerations
The aim of this paper is to integrate current knowledge of pediatric procedure pain to develop a conceptual framework of good, clinical pediatric pain practice that can be used to improve the processes and outcomes of the clinical management of pediatric procedure pain in dentistry.
Dennis Paul Nutter, DDS

Sharing Early Preventive Oral Health with Medical Colleagues: A Dental Pain Prevention Strategy
Caries remains the most common chronic disease of childhood throughout the world. Using this article as a basic curriculum, dental professionals are encouraged to share current best practice oral health prevention strategies with their local community medical providers.
Jeff Huston, DDS, MS, and A. Jeffrey Wood, DDS

The Editor/
Pipeline
By Kerry K. Carney, DDS

Impressions/

Dr. Bob/
Cell-ebrate Life, Language and Lawyers
By Robert E. Horseman, DDS