While young children may rely on thumb-sucking and pacifiers to self-soothe, prolonged habits can cause damage or shifting in their teeth.
Kids can experience pain in their teeth, as well as dental injury, as soon as their teeth begin to grow in. Pain while teething is a normal, healthy part of development and is not usually an emergency.
By combining quality pediatric dentistry with world-class orthodontics, we’ve made caring for your child’s oral health easier than ever.
Proper oral healthcare dramatically reduces the risk of dental decay and cavities, but because of genetics, some issues may crop up that need to be addressed.
Healthy teeth offer lifelong benefits: regular brushing and flossing, with regular visits to the dentist, help keep your child smiling, from their very first baby teeth, to forever!
Fluorosis is a dental condition resulting from ingesting too much fluoride in the early years of life and affects the growth of the adult teeth before they erupt in the child’s mouth, causing discoloration on the surface of teeth.
Fluoride varnish is topical fluoride solution applied to the teeth, to help protect the dental enamel and keep teeth fresh, healthy, and decay-free.
As you probably know, humans grow a first set of baby teeth before their adult teeth grow in. Baby teeth begin to grow in between 4 and 15 months during the first year of life.