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CHILDREN’S DENTISTRY
CHILDREN’S DENTISTRY
GRANDSTAND DENTAL CARE
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CHILDREN’S DENTISTRY MELBOURNE
WHEN SHOULD I BRING MY CHILD FOR THEIR FIRST APPOINTMENT?
A child first visit to the dentist can be a fun adventure, especially at Grandstand Dental Care.
The children’s dentists at Grandstand Dental Care
encourage parents to bring their children once teeth begin to appear in the mouth, usually around 12 months old. This is the ideal time for your child’s first dentist appointment. Bringing your child in at this age allows your dentist at Grandstand Dental Care to pick up abnormalities early on and identify any habits that may disrupt the development of your child’s teeth. It should be talked about as a positive experience and – if your child is brought in at this early age – it will be!
A simple examination should be all that is needed, and this will desensitise your child to the dental experience. Children are far better in the dental chair if they have seen a friend or family member have their turn first. It is great for a child to watch their parent or older siblings have a dental check-up.
A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE IS OUR GOAL, WHICH MAKES FUTURE DENTAL VISITS AND CARE SIMPLE AND EASY FOR KIDS.
AT GRANDSTAND DENTAL CARE WE CARE FOR WHAT IS MOST PRECIOUS
A strong focus on preventative dentistry is taken, education on brushing habits, diet, hydration and regularly dental visits is provided, to ensure that all children are aware of how they can care for their own teeth in order to ensure your children have healthy baby and adult teeth for life!
THE IMPORTANCE OF BABY TEETH
Healthy and strong teeth are important as soon as a child is born. A child’s development of teeth, airways, gums and facial profile can be influenced by
- Diet
- Breastfeeding
- Sleeping patterns
- Breathing technique
- Poor habits
Baby teeth are critical to the correct alignment and development of adult teeth. By instilling good oral hygiene habits, regularly dental visits, and diagnosis of possible complications early, we are able to treat and intervene to prevent further issues.
EARLY INTERVENTION
When baby teeth are crowded, rotated, over-retained, removed or missing, this may lead to poor positioning of adult teeth. Often, this requires complex orthodontic correction in teenage and adult years. Also, simple analysis of your child’s breathing pattern and airway can indicate if any developmental issues impeding correct tooth alignment. We often lease with ENT specialists to ensure good developmental patterns are maintained.
Our kids dentists encourage early intervention focusing on orthotropic, orthopaedics and orthodontics allow our clinicians to facilitate change in a developing child, and provide a stable framework for the future of your child’s teeth.
A range of treatments may be used to encourage positive growth in your child. These include
- Removable orthodontic appliances
- Fixed orthodontic braces
- Growth promoting appliances
- Removal of infected soft tissues and blockages
- Repair of heavily decayed and broken teeth
- Facilitation of good oral hygiene habits
- Healthy diet and water intake
FISSURE SEALANTS
Fissure Sealants are a varnish applied to children’s teeth to prevent decay developing in the deep grooves of the back molars. These grooves can be deep and narrow, making them difficult to clean effectively, even with a child’s toothbrush.
For susceptible teeth, the kid’s dentists at Grandstand Dental Care regularly use fissure sealants to protect and strengthen these teeth. Like a nail polish, it is a white filling material that flows into the cleaned grooves of a child’s molar teeth. By filling these areas, children are able to clean their teeth more effectively, and prevent further damage to teeth.
This is a very simple and painless preventative measure routinely used for children, and takes only a few minutes to apply.
The ideal time to have sealants applied is immediately following the eruption of the first permanent molars, around are six and then subsequently after the seconds permanent adult premolars come through, between the ages of eleven and thirteen. However, there are occasions when baby molars require dental sealants if there is an indication of them developing tooth decay.