Anxiety - Free Dental care for children, built around not frightening them.
Overview
Children's dentistry covers:
Preventive Care: Provide regular checkups, professional cleanings, fluoride treatments, and dental sealants to stop tooth decay before it starts.
Early Interventions: Monitor the growth of jaws and teeth, manage teething discomfort, and offer early orthodontic evaluations for misaligned bites.
Restorative Treatments: Fill cavities, treat dental infections, and repair fractured or knocked-out baby and permanent teeth.
Habit Counseling: Offer guidance and intervention for thumb-sucking, pacifier use, and tongue thrusting.
Specialized Environment: Utilize training in child psychology and kid-friendly office designs to ease patient anxiety and manage behavior.
A child whose early visits are calm and less anxious grows into an adult who goes to the dentist; a child frightened at six often avoids it at 30’s
Minor treatments — sealants, fluoride, small fillings, space maintenance — is mostly simple. The skill is in the pacing: letting a child see and touch the instruments, explaining before doing, and never restraining a frightened child to finish a filling.
Suitability
If one of these suits you better than kids dentistry, we will say so at your consultation — including when the right answer is to do nothing for now.
Step by step
We explain in words a child understands, show them the instrument on their finger, then use it. Nothing happens that they have not seen first.
Often just an examination while the child sits on parent Lap and a chat with you about brushing techniques and dietary Habits. No treatment unless something is needed.
Checking for decay, watching how the adult teeth are developing, and X-rays only when genuinely needed.
Fluoride and sealants — quick, comfortable, and far better than treating the decay later.
Kept short. If a child has had enough, we stop and bring them back rather than push through.
Benefits
Early decay caught while treatment is still small and quick
Sealants and fluoride prevent most of what would otherwise need filling
Developing bite problems are spotted while the jaw is still growing and easy to guide
A child who is not frightened of the dentist becomes an adult who attends
Parents get straight answers about brushing, diet and thumb-sucking
After treatment
Who will treat you
MDS · MNDC (New Zealand) · MADC (Australia) · PGDAI (CIIOMFI, France) · Fellow ICOI (USA)
Dr. G. Vijay Srinivas is an Oral & Maxillofacial Pathologist and Implant Dentistry practitioner with more than 35 years of clinical experience, and the founder of AP Superspeciality Dental Hospitals.
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Questions
When their first tooth comes through, or by their first birthday — whichever comes first. That first visit is mostly about you, not them: brushing, bottles, diet. It also means their first experience of a dental chair happens when nothing hurts, which matters more than anything clinical we do.
Because they do not fall out for years — the back baby teeth stay until around age twelve. In the meantime, decay in them causes real pain and abscesses, can damage the adult tooth forming underneath, and losing one early lets the other teeth drift and crowd out the adult tooth. 'They'll fall out anyway' is the most damaging assumption in children's dentistry.
We slow down. The first visit may involve no treatment at all — just sitting in the chair, counting teeth, riding the chair up and down. We use tell-show-do so nothing is a surprise. We will not hold a struggling child down to finish a filling; we would rather bring them back three times. Please do not promise them it won't hurt — they only hear 'hurt'.
Around age seven for a first orthodontic look, even though treatment usually starts at ten to fourteen. At seven we can see how the jaws are growing and whether a short early phase would create space and avoid extractions later. See our braces page.
If it is an adult tooth, this is urgent — minutes matter. Hold it by the crown, never the root, rinse it in milk if dirty, put it back in the socket if you can, and get to us immediately. If you cannot reinsert it, keep it in milk. If it is a baby tooth, do NOT reinsert it — you can damage the adult tooth underneath. Call us either way. See our emergency page.
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