Pedodontics

Pedodontics (Child care Dentistry)

In all branches of medicine & surgery child care is always specially dealt with. Expert doctors at laungia dental hospital are going to care the dental health of your child, right the moment teeth start appearing in the tiny oral cavity of your infant child. We will be equally careful & helping to the, child dental health and Nipple & breast, care of the mother. we shall be stressing on the right technique of breast feeding and/or bottle feeding. We shall be imparting special training for oral hygiene of the child on one hand and breast & milk bottle hygiene on the other hand. This is going to save the child and you from several problems like, milk bottle caries (due to residual milk in mouth of child), cracked or retracted nipples of mother starving the child and pain to mother, regurgitation of milk (due to ignorance of burping technique), vomiting & diarrhea of child (bad hygiene).

Our experts advise dental care of a child with brushing right the moment teeth start appearing in the oral cavity. The special dental care for the children is offered up to the age of 14 years. This special care is needed by specialists because teeth during this period are soft and there for v. prone to caries. Again when the teeth start shedding we come across mixed dentition, needing care of the deciduous and permanent teeth differently. Special attention has to be given to late shedding of deciduous tooth for any damage or displacement of the permanent teeth lying below. In such situations at times the extraction of deciduous tooth is needed and at some times supranumery tooth has also to be extracted to avoid mal alignment and crowding.

The most important is the preventive application of fluorides for protection against caries. The fluoride application is advised from the age of six years to twelve years. The fluoride applications should be done at an interval of six months to one year, every time in a weekly course of four weeks.

Special educative training is given to the children about the technique of brushing and advised for using soft brushes, brushing the teeth after every meal, no sweet sticky food in between.