Pediatric therapeutic dentistry

Dental therapist is a doctor you should visit regularly for preventive examinations. His or her tasks include timely detection of dental problems during a checkup, prescription and performing of additional examinations, referral to other specialists if necessary, and also the development of a treatment plan.

A visit to a dental therapist is necessary in case your child has the following symptoms:

Has a dark spot on a tooth;
Has dull or acute tooth ache, pain when pressing in the area of one or more teeth;
A cheek is swollen;

Complains of the pain in the mouth when eating;
Bad breath odor;
Tooth loosening, including milk teeth, especially if a permanent tooth is started to grow on its place.

A dental therapist treats the following diseases:

caries of milk teeth and permanent teeth,
pulpitis,
periodontitis,
stomatitis,
gingivitis,
parodontitis.

Our specialists will use every effort to save your babies’ teeth, however, it is better to take care of teeth, not to treat them, that is why the prevention of caries and its complications is extremely important. During preventive examinations a dental therapist will help to reveal the problems with teeth growing, jaw development and occlusion formation and will give a referral to the relevant dental care specialists. Knowing the individual characteristics of your child, a doctor will be able to reveal a problem timely and will give the recommendations of how to solve it, and also will tell about the necessary preventive measures to preserve healthy teeth of your child.

To visit a dentist without stress, a child should be prepared. Here are some advice on how to get a child ready for a visit to a dentist:

Show the cartoons about the dental care with his or her favorite animals the day before;
Tell why you should go to the dentist: to have beautiful and healthy teeth.
Take the child’s favorite toy with you for a visit.
Come in advance to give the child some time to familiarize with the environment.