Introduction As a parent, one of your main concerns is to ensure your child’s safety and well-being. When it comes to dental procedures, it is not uncommon for children to feel anxious or fearful. To ease their discomfort and reduce pain during dental treatments, laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, is commonly used....
A dental visit can be quite overwhelming for a child as well as the parents. This can be attributed to many reasons – parents’ own negative dental experiences, associating a doctor and doctor’s clinic with injections as most young kids visit their pediatrician for vaccinations (injection), using doctors and dentistry as a threat by the...
What is thumb sucking habit? Thumb sucking is a type of non-nutritive sucking (any sucking activity that is not done to consume food or liquids). One of the most prevalent habits among kids is thumb-sucking. Why do children suck their thumb? Babies often put their thumbs or fingers in their mouths due to...
Having a beautiful smile can do wonders for your looks and confidence. As a child , a grin with missing front teeth or a crooked smile can be easily passed off as ‘cute’, but as soon as we reach adulthood, we start feeling self conscious about our crooked smile and start wishing it was...
As a paediatric dentist, the most common question that I am asked is, “Do baby teeth really require dental treatment?” Yes, it is true that primary (baby) teeth are temporary and eventually fall off, but they serve a variety of important functions in the mouth. The last baby tooth sheds around 10–12 years of age....
