Pedodontics

This area aims to both protect and treat children’s milk and permanent teeth. It follows the development of the chin face area from the infancy and takes protective measures. Dental surveillance starts from 6 months to 1 year and continues every 6 months and the effect of teeth on the growing jaw bones is assessed. Parents and children are given detailed information about feeding the child and oral hygiene training. Parents are supposed to help them brush their teeth until they are able to do it himself.

The use of long-term pacifiers and feeding bottles can cause jaw and tooth disturbances in children. At night when sleeping especially after 1 year of age with sugar or honey milk, widespread carieses occur in children and these teeth may have to withdraw at an earlier age than the age at which they should fall, and finally, orthodontic treatment may be needed.

Among the most commonly used preventive treatments for childhood diseases are fissure sealant and fluoride application. Fissure sealant application; the recessed surfaces, which are most likely to become caries, are filled with a fluid filling material. In the case of flour application, it is expected to be applied to the fluoride teeth in liquid state without being swallowed by the child, the teeth are loaded with fluorine and the teeth become more resistant to caries. According to the child’s caries activity, it should be applied by the dentist every 6 months.

Dentist Seda Deniz Kalkan