What is Pediatric Dentistry (Pedodontics)?

Pedodontics, also known as Pediatric Dentistry, is the department that aims to protect the health of milk and permanent teeth of children aged 0-14 and to treat the diseases that occur.

Being a pedodontist who will carry out your child's dental treatment is an important step to take for your child to be more compliant and more conscious about dental health, by eliminating the fear of the dentist that may occur in the future.

Because pedodontists first aim to gain the love and trust of the child with psychological approaches in line with the philosophy of "think the child first, not the tooth". Then they aim to perform dental treatments painlessly with a gradual treatment approach from easy to difficult.

How Is Dental Treatment For Children Done?

As soon as milk teeth erupt, regular check-ups should be made by a pediatric dentist.

Fissure sealant and flour application can be used to prevent dental caries. After these treatments, your children continue their normal daily lives.

Overcoming the child's fears of the dentist, dental treatments also prevent bad habits such as thumb sucking, clenching and grinding.

Each treatment is designed and applied in accordance with your child's teeth and mouth structure.

Fissure Sealant Treatment in Children (Tooth Vaccination)

Fissure sealant, one of the main applications of pediatric dentistry, is a preventive dental treatment in which the recesses and grooves of the chewing surfaces of the molars are covered with a fluid filling material.

It is applied in children aged 4 to 6 to protect the deciduous molar teeth and to prevent cavities.

The fissure sealant, which fills the cavities and cavities in the molars, provides sealing and thus prevents decay.

Fissure sealant treatment, also known as dental vaccination, should be applied at a young age in order to protect tooth enamel and dental health should be established.

Our Expectation From Parents Before The First Examination

Make an appointment for your child to meet with a pedodontist without any problems such as pain, abscess, etc. after their teeth begin to erupt.

The positive communication that your child will establish with the physician at this first appointment will enable the problems that may be encountered in the future to be resolved more easily and without any problems.

The fears that children acquire from birth are actually usually caused by the impressions and verbal communications created by the parents on the children.

Therefore, before this first appointment, please do not use sentences such as "don't be afraid, it won't hurt, the needle won't be injected, your tooth will not/will be extracted". Please do not mention your own past experiences.

Motivate your child with positive affirmations.

What can be done to reduce dental caries in children?

Children should be assisted while brushing their teeth. It should be ensured that they brush their teeth twice a day, after breakfast and before going to bed at night.

Children should be taken to the dentist at an early age and fissure sealant should be applied to their teeth to prevent caries.

Care should be taken in the use of feeding bottles in order to prevent baby bottle caries. Drinking water, fluorine tablets, mouthwashes, fluoride toothpastes and applications made by the dentist should be provided with fluoride.

However, it should not be forgotten that excess fluoride is harmful, and support should be obtained from the dentist in this regard.

Children should not be given junk food. Foods containing sugar and starch feed the bacteria that cause tooth decay.

What is Preventive Dentistry?

Preventive dentistry starts with the emergence of the first milk teeth in the baby and lasts for a lifetime. In principle, it adopts the prevention of problems before they occur, with treatment planning that will be prepared specifically for the child, following the determination of the child's special risk situation.

Preventive applications in pediatric dentistry;

Regular dental check-ups

Ensuring healthy development by following tooth eruption times

Oral hygiene education and follow-up

Informing parents about proper eating habits

Determining the caries risk situation and making a child-specific preventive program

Fluor applications

Fissure sealant applications

Stopping harmful habits such as thumb sucking, nail biting, clenching and solving the problems they cause.

Includes preventive orthodontic treatments such as placeholders