Preventive dentistry
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Preventive dentistry and its importance
In our practice, we perform calculus cleaning, fluoridation with gel and varnish, sealing teeth in preschoolers and use fillings in the color of milk teeth (we use minimally invasive fillings for children and teenagers).
Better safe than sorry!
We have heard it countless times, we have seen it through the example of people who are close to us, and sometimes on our own skin. Or rather, teeth.
Everything we can do for the health of our stomatognathic system and prevent treatment is part of preventive procedures. As with adults, even more so with children.
One of the preventive procedures is the cleaning of tartar with a machine, along with the polishing of remaining fillings. It is usually the final procedure after full mouth rehabilitation; or at the inspection control, we clean the limescale, which will serve as another detailed inspection. Regular cleaning once or twice a year is enough, and in some rare cases, it should be done more often.
Dental calculus cleaning and fluoridation
Tartar prevents normal maintenance of hygiene and is often the cause of periodontal diseases. Therefore, your dentist has no dilemma when it comes to cleaning calculus. (No mercy!)
Fluoridation is mainly carried out as a preventive procedure in children, and in adults in order to reduce sensitivity to cold and heat in exposed tooth necks.
For children up to the age of 18, fluoridation with topical agents is performed regularly (it smells nice and stings a little) during each series of annual visits to the dental office.
Our kids know that then they are DONE with visits to the doctor’s office, at least for a while ?
The younger ones get a diploma for a brave repair job, or a medal or something…
And the older ones, happily bouncing home because they “got rid” of the dentist ?
So, the times when kids cried in the dentist’s office are long gone.
True, there are some “tough nuts” here and there, but with a little tactics and patience, they become the best patients.
Sealing of molars
Preschoolers are required to undergo an examination at a dental office in order to be able to enroll in school. Then we usually order them to seal six-year-old molars, the first permanent molars, which remain for life!
It protects all four healthy sixes, if they have sprouted, and is a completely painless procedure. This procedure should definitely be done as early as possible, as soon as your teeth sprout, because in this way it is easier to brush and maintain those new teeth, located somewhere far away in the mouth…
Examination in the 6th grade of elementary school is also mandatory (Dental passport). If the children visited the dentist regularly, then most often there are not too many rotten teeth, because puberty is still starting, so hygiene is a little off.
Anesthesia is our best friend in these cases.
Normally, milk teeth are also repaired, but when they are large caries, then the problem is also big. The child should be brought before the parent notices “holes” in the teeth, when the damage is small and can be easily repaired.
The child then gets a pink or blue filling or some other beautiful color and wakes up without pain. Proud of the work done.
The goal is to go from infancy to preschool age with healthy baby teeth, because when the baby tooth decays, which only changes in the sixth grade, then practically the child chews with half of the total tooth surface for at least ten years.
In addition, constant swelling, pain, antibiotics are possible and it is difficult for the child, the parent and the doctor.
At the same time, the permanent six moves forward, to the place where the permanent fifth should sprout later, causing an orthodontic problem and crowding in the dental arch. That’s why nutrition at an early age is very important, with enough quality food, of course, WITHOUT SUGAR!
WHERE THERE IS NO SUGAR, THERE ARE NO CARIES ?