Children's dentistry, also called pedodontics, is a sub-department of dentistry that deals with the structure of milk teeth and permanent teeth for children. Your children apply a number of treatments and preventive measures to have a healthy tooth structure. Issues such as caries treatment, root canal treatment, preventive orthodontic applications, tooth extraction, general anesthesia and dental treatment with vesedation are applied in the department of pedodontics.
What Age Range Does Pediatric Dentistry Look For?
Pedodontics takes care of the oral health of children between the ages of 0-15. You can get treatment for your children in this age range through a pedodontic specialist.
Who is a Pedodontic Specialist?
Pedodontic specialists are physicians who receive an additional 5 years of specialty training in the faculty of dentistry. People who complete this specialty are called pedodontic specialists.
Preventive Applications in Pediatric Dentistry
Under the name of preventive practices to prevent caries that may occur in your children, we attach great importance to education about oral and dental health as well as nutrition habits for your child and you. These applications include fissure sealants, fluoride application and orthodontic treatments.
Fissure Sealants
With this application, a filling is made to prevent bacteria from reaching the chewing surfaces of your children's permanent teeth. In this way, tooth decay can be prevented.
Fluoride Application
As an element that prevents caries, fluoride can be applied by us to prevent tooth decay.
Orthodontic Treatments
One of the problems you may witness with your children is that there is distortion and oblique in the teeth. Thanks to orthodontic treatments, the treatment of these crooked and oblique tooth structures is provided.
Bottle Decay
From the sixth month, your babies begin to feed on solid food. As of this month, you can also start making your babies drink milk from the bottle. From time to time, you may want to increase the nutritional value of your babies by adding honey or molasses to milk. If you ensure that milk consumption is appropriate for your baby before sleep, these milks will be placed on their teeth in the form of a layer. Since saliva secretion is not enough, your babies' teeth cannot be cleaned in this way and decayed structures begin to appear on their teeth. The caries that starts in this way show progress over time by spreading on other teeth. In this way, the bruises we call bottle rot are formed.
How is Bottle Decay Treated?
At this point, there are solutions that can be very effective for your baby's teeth. The best step you can take for your babies is to take them to the dentist regularly. During your regular check-ups, you can make an early diagnosis for your babies' tooth decay. In this way, successful results are obtained with treatments of several sessions. After treatment, the consumption of foods such as honey and molasses is not recommended for your babies.
When Does Bottle Decay Start?
Bottle caries are caries that can begin from infancy. If your children under the age of 6 have teeth lost due to caries, this is called "early childhood caries" or "bottle decay". One of the main causes of these bruises is the sugary foods that you have to use for your children for a long time. With the effect of sugary foods, bottle caries begins to appear if you do not pay enough attention to oral hygiene.
What Causes Bottle Rot?
There are two main reasons why bottle bruises appear. The first of these is; are foods that you have to use in the early age for your babies. Since these foods usually contain a sugary content, they damage your babies' teeth and cause them to decay. In addition, a second reason may be oral hygiene insufficiency. It is recommended that you take adequate oral care for your babies.
Does Drinking Milk at Night Decay the Teeth?
After drinking milk at night, a layer will form on your babies' teeth and will remain on the teeth for a long time, so drinking milk at night can lead to tooth decay.
Milk Teeth
Teeth that begin to appear after a few months of the birth of your babies are called milk teeth. Milk teeth are literally removed when they are approximately 2.5-3 years old.
What Happens If Milk Teeth Don't Fall Out?
It is not a problem of any kind. If the milk teeth belonging to your baby do not fall out, the presence of these teeth may continue into adulthood. They do not have a structure as robust as permanent teeth. They are teeth that are quite easy to decay.
When Do Spilled Milk Teeth Come Out?
A few months after your babies are born; their first teeth begin to appear. These teeth take approximately 2.5-3 years to complete. The milk teeth that are formed fall out and permanent teeth come out instead of them correspond to the age of 5 years.