Paediatric dentistry — in the LDEK question base
Development of dentition, early childhood caries and its prevention, dental trauma, managing the young patient.
- Questions in base
- 375
- Share of base
- 15.0%
- Roughly on the paper
- ~21
The "on the paper" figure assumes the 140 questions drawn from the base are distributed in proportion to its composition. CEM does not publish per-field quotas, so treat it as an order of magnitude rather than a promise.
Required reading — paediatric dentistry
The list CEM publishes for this field. Questions are written from these titles, so where a lecture and a listed textbook disagree, the textbook decides.
Titles appear exactly as CEM lists them. Most are Polish editions with no English translation — a practical constraint of sitting this exam in English, not an oversight here.
- 01 D. Olczak-Kowalczyk, J. Szczepańska, U. Kaczmarek (red.) — Współczesna stomatologia wieku rozwojowego, Med Tour Press International, 2017
- 02 D. Olczak-Kowalczyk (red.) — Kompendium stomatologii wieku rozwojowego, Med Tour Press International, 2022
- 03 A.C. Cameron, R.P. Widmer — Stomatologia dziecięca, Urban & Partner, 2013 (uzupełniające)
- 04 D. Olczak-Kowalczyk, L. Wagner (red.) — Zapobieganie i leczenie choroby próchnicowej u dzieci, Borgi, 2013 (uzupełniające)
- 05 Andreasen, Andreasen, Bakland, Flores — Pourazowe uszkodzenia zębów, Urban & Partner, 2012 (uzupełniające)
Source: the CEM reading list . As at August 2026 — check before your session in case CEM has revised it.
How to get through this field
375 questions is a finite, countable set — at twenty a day you are through it in 19 days. The difficulty is not the volume. It is that the CEM listing gives you the questions and nothing else: no answer key, no explanation and no indication which of the books above the answer came from.
That matters more in dentistry than in medicine, because LDEK questions repeat between sessions less often. Memorising letters from the base will not carry you — understanding why the other four options are wrong is what transfers to the questions you have not seen.