Dentistry for Children

Many problems are associated with improper bite in children, early caries, gum disease, which is called ‚from childhood’. If you give the children the right nipple (and it is better not to give it at all), you can avoid persistent disturbance of bite in children provided you avoid feeding the child with excessively sweetened juices, hence you can avoid the so-called ‘bottle caries’. Nothing so duly replaces feeding from bottle, like natural feeding. If the young miracle has a persistent habit of sucking a finger or gnawing the nails, then the pediatrician and the dentist can jointly work with you to develop a strategy of literally getting rid of bad habit without resorting to persuasion or daddy’s belt. Often, parents do not notice worsening of nasal breathing, explaining this by constant colds. This leads to children constantly breathing with open mouth, which is also able to break the right bite in children. The dentist will note this and will help again with advice. If the child has a short frenum of the tongue or lip, then the correct positioning of the teeth in the teeth alignment can be disturbed as well as the diction, making occupations with the speech therapist an urgent necessity. In the clinic, at an early age, it is possible to effectively correct the short frenum and in an overwhelming number of cases the speech therapist will not be needed.

A special role in children’s dentistry is played by prevention of caries and its complications. There is a profoundly mistaken opinion that treating caries in milk teeth is not as relevant as treating the permanent ones. This circumstance causes deep indignation among children’s dentists. First, in case of early loss of milk teeth, the bite will inevitably be broken. Secondly, the complications can be so dangerous that they can easily lead the child to hospital bed with completely bad diagnoses – abscess and phlegmon. This is a preventive sealing of fissures and fluoridation of teeth.

It is absolutely clear that caries is easier and more correct to avoid than treating the appeared caries, especially in children. But if it could not be avoided, the early detection of caries at a stage at which intervention is minimal and very fast will help the children’s dentist, the child’s parents and the young miracle to avoid significant time, financial and emotional costs. Early diagnosis of caries is possible if the child regularly visits the dentist twice a year, where the physician, using all possible methods, finds the hiding dental enemy.