Pediatric Dentistry
(Child Dentistry)
Pediatric dentistry is the branch of dentistry dealing with children from birth through adolescence. Pediatric dentistry is a specialty that adapts techniques and procedures from general dentistry and specialties to provide primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for children.
1) Pit & Fissure sealants
Sealants are a safe and painless way of protecting your children’s teeth from decay. A sealant is a protective resin coating, …
2) Fluoride application
Fluoride is a natural mineral that is found in water. The amount of fluoride in the water varies from area to area.
3) Fillings
Though children are using a set of teeth they will eventually lose, that set of teeth needs to survive until the adult teeth guide them …
4) Pulpectomy
A pulpectomy is similar to a root canal, and is actually typically a part of the root canal process. After a dentist removes the …
5) Pulpotomy
A pulpotomy is the surgical removal of an inflamed pulp chamber in a child’s tooth that has been compromised due to decay, …
6) Extraction
There are times when it is necessary to remove a tooth. Sometimes a baby tooth has misshapen or long roots that prevent …
7) Space Maintainers
It is very often a small stainless steel wire and band joined together which is cemented on one of the teeth adjacent …
8) Crowns- Strip, Steel, Ceramic
Crowns are an ideal way to rebuild teeth which have been broken, or have been weakened by decay or a very large filling.