What Is Paediatric Dentistry | Pedodontics
Pedodontics is a department that aims to protect the healthy milk and permanent teeth of children aged 0-13 years and to eliminate the problems caused by caries, trauma, hereditary and similar factors in these teeth.
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Why Are Milk Teeth Important?
Milk teeth are 20 in total. The most important task of milk teeth is to provide nutrition for the child.
In addition, the proper development of speech also depends on the presence of milk teeth.
Milk teeth protect the area they cover for the permanent tooth that will replace them and guide the permanent tooth as it erupts.
When the deciduous tooth is extracted early, this natural placeholder function disappears.
Pediatric Dentists perform all kinds of preventive and therapeutic treatment and protective applications according to the oral dental health needs of infants, children and young people during this period.
Pedodontics is a branch of dentistry that follows and treats the oral and dental health of children from infancy and the development of the jaw-facial region, and also includes preventive measures.
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What Are Protective Applications?
The first aim of paediatric dentistry is to take precautions to prevent dental problems and to guide children to a caries-free future. The procedures applied for this purpose are called Preventive Dentistry Practices.
For preventive applications aimed at preventing dental caries, great importance is attached to educating the child and his/her family about oral-dental health and nutrition.
Preventive dentistry applications include superficial flor and fissure sealant procedures.
What Do Fissure Sealants Do?
It is a fluid filling material that closes the deep and decay-prone fissures (grooves) on the chewing surfaces of permanent teeth, does not allow bacteria to reach here and thus prevents decay. Fissure sealant applications should be checked every 6 months.
What is Fluorine Application?
Fluorine is an element that prevents tooth decay and strengthens the structure of teeth. Since the tooth enamel is not fully matured when the teeth first erupt, newly erupted teeth are generally less resistant to decay and prone to caries formation.
Fluorine strengthens the tooth enamel and protects the tooth against acid attacks and thus helps to prevent tooth decay. Professional fluoride application is a preventive method that can only be applied by dentists. Superficial flour should be applied by a dentist every 6 months.
