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8 advices on brushing kids teeth.8 advices on brushing kids teeth.

8 tips on how to brush your kid’s teeth, choose your kids tooth brush, tooth paste, also when to start brushing for your baby and many other useful tips. [...]

Extraction vs filling of kids's milk tooth.Extraction vs filling of kids’s milk tooth.

choosing between extraction and filling or conservation is a very common decision that both dentists and patients have to take every day. With adults the decision making is much more easier, if the tooth is restorable and the patient can pay for the treatment then we simply conserve the tooth. If the patient is a child then the process of decision making is much more harder as many factors affect the selection of the treatment plan that the dentist have to follow.

1-Child’s age:

This factor is very important as it well judge the cooperation of the child during treatment process so the cooperative patient is giving more chance to the success of lengthy treatments like filling or even root canal when uncooperative patient may drive the dentist to extraction.

2- The time left for the tooth to come out or shedding:

The dentist here estimate the time left for [...]

My child’s tooth is broken or knocked out

Before any thing we have to say that these cases need to be managed by the pediatric  dentist as soon as possible in a matter of minutes if possible so don’t waste time don’t wait an appointment with a busy dentist just find the nearest and the most available one.

Causes of teeth trauma and breaking in children:

Teeth trauma begins when child is able to move and run. So it begins about 18 m of age.causes includes toddlers trips and falls,older children bicycle accidents and school fights even contact sports in early teenagers.

Trauma in children can affect both milk (primary) and permanent teeth prognosis and treatment differ according to wither the traumatized tooth is permanent or milk teeth .

First we have to know what is milk teeth. Milk teeth is temporary teeth which is replaced later by others (permanent teeth)

Trauma to permanent teeth in children:

Trauma can break the child the tooth  in different ways

Breaking can [...]