Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry

Pulpectomy: When Dental caries or Decay is left untreated it will result in infection of the tooth and surrounding structures leading to pain and pus discharge from the area. Now the the infection has progressed to the dental pulp and will need a pulpectomy procedure to restore its normal form and function.

Milk Teeth: Milk Teeth are often neglected by most parents as they think that they will shed of by the age of 12 or 13 years. In fact Milk Teeth play a much larger role in shaping the child into an adult.

Milk teeth help in:

• Proper nutritional supply to the child by helping the child chew the food and getting it digested and absorbed in the body

• Proper speech development

• Proper facial development by promoting the growth of jaws

• Proper facial musculature development

• Better mental well being

• Better aesthetic

The treatment procedures in a Child dental patient doesn’t need to be only when he/she is in pain. According to American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry a Child’s first dental visit should be by the time he/she turns One.

We provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.