Paedodontics

Paediatric Dentistry (ranging from Day 1 to 16 years) is a specialised area that deals with oral & dental care as well as management of infant, children, adolescent and those with special health care need.

Specialist Dental Surgeons dealing with the treatments related to children are known as Paedodontists.

Problems :

  • Baby bottle tooth decay / multiple tooth decay
  • Thumb sucking
  • Tongue thrushing
  • Lip sucking
  • Early loss of milk teeth
  • Abscessed tooth
  • Broken teeth
  • Tooth cavity
  • Discoloured tooth
  • Deep pit and fissures of teeth causing decay
  • Irregular teeth
  • Oral Lesions
  • Sports related injury in tooth

Services Provided :

  • Oral hygiene as well as home care instructions to child and parent
  • Monitoring proper dental development
  • Caries risk assessment
  • Fluorides application for prevention of dental caries
  • Pit & Fissure Sealant application for preventing decay of teeth
  • Diet counseling
  • Space maintainers
  • Filling of Tooth Cavity
  • Habit breaking appliances
  • Stainless steel crowns and white crowns for milk teeth
  • Root Canal in Milk Teeth and young permanent teeth
  • Fabrication of Mouth Guards for prevention of sports related injury
  • Treatment under General Anesthesia and Sedation on fearful children
  • Painless surgical treatment with Laser in children

Consultant Paedodontists