Fairfield Kids Dentist

What is Pediatric Dental Care?

Our Fairfield dental team is carefully trained in pediatric dentistry, working with all ages of children, including infants  and adolescents, teaching them about the development of good dental habits. While initiating a trusting and confident relationship between our dentist and patient, we can aim our efforts at preventing decay, advising any patient on how to make teeth stronger, and emphasizing the importance of developing ways to prevent cavities at every appointment or teledentistry exam. Dental care and oral care is very important for every patient in preventing gum disease.

Why Visit Our Pediatric Dentistry?

With extensive knowledge of dentistry problems specific to children and adolescents, our Make a Smile staff is more than fit to care for your family’s needs and assure that you’re receiving the best dental information at every appointment or teledentistry exam. Our office is aware that they must treat children a little differently than adults, which is equally as important as the technical training. After years of working strictly with children patients, our dental staff knows that showing respect, compassion, and a gentle touch will always get the best results from our young patients.

Our dental team is also trained in Child Physiology, providing them with the ability to approach the needs of kids from a different perspective than a normal dentistry during every appointment This is especially important in working with maturing children, whose focus turns more towards self-image as they age. A lot of problems that can progress as your children get older can be resolved by our early dental detection techniques, and regular dental visits, helping to improve your child’s health and smile.

Pediatric Treatments

Sealants

Sealants are placed on chewing surfaces of the back teeth to prevent blight and other problems that may affect the mouth. A sealant is a thin coating material that flows into the grooves of the chewing surface on a molar. Sealants make it very easy to keep molars clean and to avoid food from getting stuck in the grooves causing cavities or other dental health problems.

Radiographs or X-Rays

Our dental office is equipped with digital radiography, with the images almost instantly appearing on our computer screen!

Diagnodent

Not all cavities are easy to reach. Fortunately, our dentists will use Diagnodent, a light that is used to detect bacteria and gauge the density of the tooth. These non-invasive technology services offer early detection of cavities and provide comfort during your kids dental procedure

Fillings

In order to treat a cavity, filling or restorative material is chosen based on the tooth which needs to be restored. Decay eats holes in the substance of the tooth, called “dentin,” creating that most familiar of dental bothers: the cavity. At Make a Smile, our staff will not fill cavities with amalgam or silver fillings; we proudly use only composite, white fillings. Fillings are an easy way to prevent further corrosion and future oral problems in children.

Fluoride

Fluoride helps re-mineralize weak enamel, which is important for healthy teeth in children. Our office or your pediatrician can prescribe fluoride supplements in tablet or drop form as needed. Topical fluoride is externally applied directly to the tooth and is found in mouthwash and kids toothpaste.

Pulpotomy/Stainless Steel Crown

If a cavity goes untreated and is not filled, blight passes through the dentin and enters the pulp, the soft, innermost part of a tooth containing nerves and blood vessels. For this we perform a pulpotomy. The decay and pulp tissue are removed, the pulp chamber is filled with a special material and a stainless steel crown is cemented over the entire tooth to prevent dental breakage.

Root Canal

When a cavity at the pulp level is left untreated, the corrosion spreads into the root canals of the tooth where nerves and blood vessels connect to the tooth. At this point the only dental procedure that can save the tooth is root canal services. The dental atrophy and tissue of the root canals are removed and, as in a pulpotomy, replaced with a special material.

Extraction and Space Maintainer

If the deterioration passes through the roots, it forms an infection at the base of the tooth, at this point it must be “extracted,” or removed. When a back tooth is removed, the remaining teeth push closer together, leaving little room for the new permanent tooth. To prevent the new one from growing in crooked, a dental space maintainer is used. This is placed in the area left by any extracted teeth, almost like a placeholder, saving room for the new permanent tooth to grow in properly.

What Parents and Children Should Know

Five Steps to a happy and healthy smile:

• Brush twice a day
• Floss once a day
• Eat healthy
• Make an appointment every 6 months for a full review
• Baby Tooth Cleaning

Healthy baby teeth, although eventually replaced, are a pivotal step in the development and growth of a child’s permanent teeth and an important first step towards a healthy mouth. A kid’s first tooth may erupt as early as in a few months. It is crucial to clean your baby’s gums and any newly erupted tooth after meals, bottles, and medicine use, using a soft washcloth. Please replace toothbrushes every three months and check first with our staff about when and what toothpastes are age appropriate for your children prior to use.

Make a dental care appointment and come visit us at 1955 W. Texas St. #2A in Fairfield, CA. You can also send us an email at [email protected] If you’ve received great service, please leave us a review on Yelp.

If you have any questions about our Make a Smile Dentistry in Fairfield, feel free to call our office or schedule an on-site visit. We provide great oral health care, focused on general orthodontic, endodontic and oral surgery services.