What Is Scale and Polish for Kids and Why Is It Important?
December 13, 2024
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Ensuring regular visits to a paediatric dentist for your child is crucial for maintaining optimal dental health during their formative years. From establishing healthy dental routines that set the stage for a lifetime of strong teeth and gums to catching potential issues early and minimising discomfort, these visits offer countless benefits.
Welcoming and kid-friendly environments can also eliminate dental anxiety, making the experience positive and stress-free. Choosing the right children’s dentist with flexible appointment options ensures your family’s needs are met while prioritising your child’s oral health and overall well-being, setting them on a path towards confident smiles and a healthy future.
Near Gatley and Cheadle, our kid-friendly dentists prioritise children’s oral health with gentle and professional care. We offer a wide range of services, from routine checkups and hygienist appointments to tooth extraction consultations and emergency care. Plus, we provide expert advice on maintaining good oral hygiene habits at home and can guide you on future orthodontic needs, like children’s braces. Choose us for a trustworthy and reassuring experience that ensures your child’s smile stays healthy and bright.
We take our role as a local dentist for children very seriously indeed. Our pediatric dental team offers comprehensive care for growing smiles, keeping a watchful eye on their overall oral and general health. Our gentle dentists, nurses, and hygienists are experts in spotting early signs of dental issues and providing guidance on brushing, nutrition, and mouth care for the whole family. We equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to maintain healthy smiles, from demonstrating proper flossing and mouthwash techniques to caring for braces or other dental appliances. Choose us for a comprehensive and preventative approach to your child’s oral health, ensuring a lifetime of confident smiles.
Even with diligent brushing and healthy diets, children’s teeth can sometimes require fillings. Don’t delay treatment! At Cheadle Village Dental Practice, our specialised children’s dentists understand the importance of swift and comfortable care. We use modern techniques and kid-friendly approaches to minimise anxiety and ensure a pain-free filling experience. Our excellent aftercare support ensures long-lasting results and peace of mind for both you and your child.
Understanding a child’s anxiety about tooth extraction is top priority at Cheadle Village Dental Practice. We create a relaxing and supportive environment for your young patient with clear communication every step of the way. Our experienced and gentle team will walk you through the entire children’s tooth extraction procedure, including anaesthesia options, what to expect during the process, and recovery tips to ensure a smooth journey. We answer any questions and address concerns with kindness and expertise, dedicated to making your family’s experience positive and stress-free. Choose us for expert care, compassionate support, and comprehensive aftercare for your child’s tooth extraction.
If misaligned teeth, bite problems, or jaw concerns worry you regarding your child’s oral health, Cheadle Village Dental Practice has you covered. Our dentists can advise on various kids’ orthodontics treatments, including braces and aligners, to achieve a healthy and confident smile.
Expert children’s orthodontists utilise these proven treatments to address issues like overbites, underbites, spacing, crowding, and malocclusion (misalignment). Whether it’s a gap-toothed grin or an uncomfortable bite, we offer solutions. Feel free to call our friendly team today to schedule a consultation and discuss your child’s specific needs. We’ll answer any questions you have about children’s braces, aligners, or other corrective orthodontic treatments, guiding you towards the best option for your child’s smile journey.
At Cheadle Village Dental Practice, we believe in proactive and preventative care for your child’s smile. Our pediatric dentists are passionate about early intervention to nip potential issues in the bud before they develop into bigger problems.
Regular check-ups are key, allowing us to identify and address concerns like cavities, cracks, and broken teeth promptly. We also focus on educating and empowering your child with proper brushing, flossing, and mouthwash techniques, promoting excellent oral hygiene habits for life.
Additionally, we offer various preventive dentistry measures like protective coatings to strengthen teeth and early referrals to orthodontists if needed. By prioritising prevention, we strive to ensure your child enjoys a lifetime of strong, healthy teeth and a radiant smile.
At Cheadle Village Dental Practice, we understand that dental anxiety is common, especially among young children. That’s why we have specially trained teams of dentists and dental nurses who are experts in calming anxious patients. We believe in creating a welcoming and positive environment where every child feels comfortable and at ease.
We strongly encourage early and regular dental visits, ideally starting from a young age. This helps children normalise the experience and view it as an essential part of maintaining strong, healthy teeth and a radiant smile.
Whether your child experiences mild nervousness or significant anxiety, our team has the experience and empathy to provide compassionate care. We offer various calming techniques, including:
We are also committed to supporting children with additional needs, ensuring they have a positive and inclusive dental experience.
Routine checkup or specific concern? At Cheadle Village Dental Practice, We prioritise understanding your child’s unique needs. We take time to sit down and discuss your concerns to create personalised treatment plans. Quality treatments are at the heart of our practice, and we share them with our clients.
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All our staff are trained in working with nervous patients and will do their utmost to put children at ease.
We can offer tours of the surgery and provide all kinds of comforts such as playing their favourite music or audiobooks while they are seen.
We only get one set of adult teeth, so it is crucial to look after them to the best of our ability.
Getting children into the habit of visiting the dentist from an early age, along with teaching them good dental care and hygiene is the best way to ensure that their teeth have the best possible chance to remain in good conditions for their entire life.
Familiarising your child with the dentist is the most effective way to encourage regular visits into adulthood and to avoid introducing dental anxiety later on.
Even before your child’s milk teeth start growing through, you can bring them along to the surgery to help them become acclimatised to the surroundings and to enable the dentist to start his or her oral care right from the beginning.
Once the teeth have started to come through, six-monthly check-ups will enable the dentist to keep an eye on their development, positioning and condition.
Bad oral health can cause a raft of problems for a child.
From bad breath, cavities and gum disease to more serious concerns such as pain and tooth loss, insufficient oral care can result in serious concerns.
Additionally, bad oral health has been linked to cancer, diabetes and heart disease in later life, sop the benefits of ensuring good dental habits from a young age really are manifold.
Paediatric dentistry covers all areas of tooth, mouth and jaw care for children under the age of 18, starting from infancy and the appearance of the first milk tooth.
Paediatric dentistry covers oral care and hygiene, preventative dentistry, treatments such as fillings, root canal work and tooth extractions and corrective and cosmetic work such as fitting braces, tooth straightening and whitening.
The length of time it takes to compete a filling on a child will depend entirely on the state of the tooth and how large the cavity being filled it, as well as the position of the tooth, the experience of the dentist and how anxious or calm the patient is during the procedure.
Your children’s dentist will be able to give you a better idea of the timings involved for your specific case during your child’s consultation.
It is perfectly natural for both you and your child to feel anxious before a tooth extraction.
The best way to prepare is to speak to your dentist or dental nurse about the procedure so that you have all the facts and will know in advance what will happen and when.
Tell your child the truth, while avoiding alarmist or over-emotional language and emphasise the benefits of the treatment and how much better they will feel afterwards.
Try to remain calm yourself and help them manage their anxiety in whichever way works best for your particular child and their situation. Your dentist can offer further advice in this area.
After a tooth extraction or any similar dental procedure, it is very important to treat the mouth with great care afterwards.
Avoid eating or drinking anything hot and stick to soft foods, such as yoghurt, smoothies or (lukewarm, not hot) soup. Avoid ice cream too, or anything with an extreme temperature, as this can cause sensitivity as the mouth begins its healing process.
Try not to eat on the side of the mouth where the tooth extraction has taken place and consult your dentist if you have any concerns at all about your child’s aftercare.
The right age to visit an orthodontist will depend entirely on the reason why your child is being referred to the service.
Many children being tooth straightening treatments, such as braces or aligners in their pre-teen or early teenage years, but again, this can vary enormously.
Your dentist can advise on the suitability of orthodontic treatment and whether your child is old enough to tolerate it and take responsibility for the associated after-care.
Root canal work can be a long and complicated process; however, this can be mitigated by a number of anaesthetic procedures, including local or general anaesthesia or sedation.
The decision about whether the child is old enough to cope with such a procedure must be taken by the dentist and the child’s parents or caregivers on a case-by-case basis.
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