Preventive Dentistry

Preventive Dentistry

The first and most important aim of paediatric dentistry (pedodontics) is to prevent problems in tooth-gum health. The first of the procedures to be done for this is to take children to the dentist regularly. Thanks to these controls, it will be easier to prevent crowding, skeletal problems (for example, problems due to finger sucking habit) and other orthodontic problems that may occur in the teeth during milk tooth changes. With Preventive Dentistry, risks such as problems that may occur in finger-sucking children and the formation of bottle caries in bottle-sucking children are prevented. The most important procedure to be performed by the physician with the support of the family is to give the child the correct and effective brushing habit. Flour application is the most important preventive treatment. Topical flour application will significantly prevent the tendency of teeth to caries. When the deciduous tooth is lost early due to trauma or decay, the placeholder to be made in its place prevents the other teeth from shifting and the place of the permanent tooth that will come under the lost tooth is protected.

Fissure silent (fissure sealant) procedure is applied in children and adult patients where the groove structure of the tooth is deep. Especially at the age of 6, the grooves of the first permanent molar tooth to erupt are covered with a fluent material different from the opaque tooth colour. The more opaque colour of the filling is important for the family and the physician to understand the necessity of replacement when the integrity is lost.

Space maintainers create a danger for the permanent teeth that will come later if the teeth are extracted due to decays or any traumas occurring in the milk teeth. Placeholders prevent any problems in the teeth that will grow later by fixing these gaps.

These retainers, which can be movable and fixed, are fitted under the control of the physician and then removed by the physician when the permanent teeth begin to erupt. As the name of the retainer suggests, it holds the place of the lost teeth and stops the other teeth from moving into the gaps until the permanent teeth erupt. Thus, crowded teeth are prevented, and since it is prepared according to the measurements of the milk tooth, it also prevents you from encountering any orthodontic problems in the future.