What for to treat milk teeth?

Many parents consider that it is useless to treat milk teeth because they will be replaced by permanent teeth anyhow. It’s a completely wrong approach: in fact the very healthy milk teeth determine the quality of permanent teeth. Many diseases of milk teeth can affect the permanent teeth even before these will cut through. Another negative example is that the incorrect arrangement of milk teeth can lead to the disturbance of occlusion in an older age; this is why the child will have many complexes which will change his life. For these and many other reasons it is important to take care of health since childhood.

Pediatric dentistry – is a completely separate dentistry, for teeth-maxillary system among children has its important particularities. It is enough to mention that the doctor who works with children will use different instruments, dental materials and medicinal remedies. Much higher requirements are put in front of dentist-pediatrician. He has to be an excellent psychologist, who easily gets along with the child and carries out all procedures painlessly and bloodlessly. Modern pediatric dentistry uses an entire range of methods that allow performing the diagnosis and treatment of teeth diseases among children quickly and painlessly. This is very important for a child, since everything depends on the success of his first visit to the dentist. If everything goes well, the child didn’t feel any pain or fear, then parents won’t need many efforts to convince him going to the doctor.

In western countries people understood long time ago the need of a particular approach in pediatric dentistry. Therefore they tried to turn the visit to the pediatric dental clinic into a fete. Children play there with toys and with each other, watch cartoons and receive funny presents. Dentists use for anesthetization the applicative anesthesia, mostly lidocaine spray, which is extremely inoffensive and efficient.

As a result children leave home joyful, with healthy teeth and a toy in hands. These children will visit the dentist with pleasure later on, will thoroughly fulfill all his recommendations and take care of their teeth.

Good luck to you and may your baby be in good health!