Pedodontics: dental care for children
Introduction
Dental prevention begins in early childhood with regular check-ups, hygiene instructions, dietary guidelines, and lots of patience and love.
By doing this, if your child ever encounters a dental problem, he or she will have confidence in the dentist and treatment will be easy and stress-free.
A child who trusts his or her dentist will become a serene adult with a healthy and beautiful smile.
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Pedodontics
Pedodontics is a specialty of dentistry dedicated to the dental care of children, with all the specificities that this implies.
Indeed, treating children’s teeth requires special sensitivity and know-how, but with a little patience, most children are often much more cooperative than their parents!
Nitrous oxide sedation (laughing gas)
To relax our little patients, even the most vivacious ones, and to ensure that they are as comfortable as possible during dental treatment, we often resort to sedation with nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas.
The administration of nitrous oxide by inhalation is simple, comfortable, well accepted and makes the dentist’s maneuvers more tolerable. At the end of the treatment, it only takes a few seconds to be back to full health without any after-effects: it’s just great!
In the rare cases where nitrous oxide is not enough, we can administer, as an alternative, a few drops of a relaxing medication to soothe your child so that we can carry out high-quality care gently.
Any administration of medication to children is discussed thoroughly with the parents and is subject to explicit permission.
