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New Patient Exams
We are happy to see children from new born age to late teenage years. The Canadian Dental Association recommends that your baby be assessed within 6 months of the eruption of the first tooth or by one year of age. In our experience we recommend bringing your baby for an oral exam as soon as possible, ideally right after birth.
This is beneficial because it:
- Gives parents the opportunity to discuss what they should be doing to help establish good oral care habits.
- Gives us the opportunity to identify current or potential issues (tongue or lip-tie).
- Helps us identify long term dental issues as your child ages.
- Creates a great dental experience. Bringing your child early helps them become more comfortable with the dental experience.
- Will allow your child to know what to expect at future dental appointments.
Preventive & Hygiene Services
Dental Hygiene or Preventive dentistry is dental care that helps maintain good oral health. It’s a combination of regular dental check-ups along with developing good habits like brushing and flossing.
There are several benefits of dental hygiene / preventive dentistry:
- Can reduce the risk of tooth decay
- Can reduce the risk of gum disease
- Improves and maintains proper oral hygiene
- Promotes good dental habits, including brushing and flossing
- Provides guidance on oral habits (eg. thumb sucking)
- Nutritional counselling
- Fluoride application
- Helps identify related health issues that may impact a child’s oral health
- Routine X-rays help track jaw and teeth development
- Recommend interceptive orthodontics if necessary
- Referrals to other dental specialists as needed
Pit & Fissure Sealants
Dental sealants are thin coatings that when painted on the chewing surfaces of the back teeth (molars) can prevent cavities (tooth decay) for many years. Sealants protect the chewing surfaces from cavities by covering them with a protective shield that blocks out germs and food. Sealants do not replace flossing as the coating can only be applied to the biting surface and not in between teeth. *Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
The benefits of pit and fissure sealants are:
- Protects the biting surfaces of the molars;
- Sealants are quick, easy, and painless;
- Sealed teeth are checked at each cleaning.
Early Interceptive Orthodontic Program
How can interceptive orthodontics help your child?
The main goal of interceptive orthodontic treatment is guiding the growth and development of the jaws at an early stage. This type of treatment can prevent/minimize extensive treatments later on.
The benefits of interceptive orthodontics are:
- To improve oral functions
- To align crooked teeth
- To correct crossbites
- To guide permanent teeth in a favorable position
- To correct oral habits such as thumb sucking, tongue thrusting, etc.
- To improve aesthetics
- To reduce the risk of more complicated treatments in the future
Laser Frenectomies
Frenectomy is a procedure used to release the lip or tongue frenum. A restrictive lip and/or tongue frenum (tie) could be the reason why your child is having feeding difficulties, speech issues, and/or improper jaw development.
The goal is to have your child visit the dentist for well baby check up before there is an issue with their teeth and/or growth and development of the jaws. In most cases, a dental exam will let your child’s dentist catch small problems early.
The procedure can also be performed on newborn babies. As a restrictive lip or tongue may interfere with breastfeeding. This frenectomy could help to relieve your child from daily struggles.
Benefits of using a laser to carry out a frenectomy:
- Here at our dental office, our pediatric dentists use a CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) laser to carry out this procedure.
- Minimal bleeding
- Minimal discomfort
- The procedure is rapid
- Clean and disinfected wound
SDF Application
Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a liquid containing fluoride and silver particles. It can be considered a valuable therapy for caries management. It is applied directly to cavities with a small brush. SDF limits the growth of the bacteria, that causes tooth decay, therefore can limit the growth of the cavity. Caries lesions treated with SDF usually turn black and hard. Stopping the caries process in all targeted lesions may take several applications of SDF, and reapplication may be necessary to sustain arrest.
What are the benefits of SDF?
1. Helps stop cavities from growing and getting worse.
2. Slows the need for more invasive treatments when it is not possible to deliver the restorations
3. SDF can be used to "buy time" for very young children or non-compliant patients until they are able to cooperate with fillings and other permanent treatment options.
4. Application of SDF is fast, easy, and painless.
5. SDF can relieve tooth sensitivity.
6. Can be used to treat baby teeth that are about to fall out as an adult tooth comes in.
What you need to consider :
The biggest disadvantage of SDF is the black discoloration of cavities that would be visible.
Orafacial Myofunctional Therapy
Myofunctional therapy is a program of specific exercises that target the facial and oral muscles used to chew and swallow.
These exercises strengthen the tongue and help to correct improper function of the facial and oral muscles.
The main goals of myofunctional therapy is to restore nasal breathing, correct swallowing, and correct placement of tongue at rest.
Stainless Steel & Zirconia Crowns
Primary teeth that are significantly decayed or damaged may require a crown. As a general rule, pediatric crowns are recommended in cases where a dental filling is not enough to restore the tooth. There are two types of crowns that can be used depending on many variables. One is made of stainless steel and is silver in colour. The other choice is a zirconia crown which is tooth-coloured. Depending on the circumstance, a zirconia crown can not always be used. The crowns will be cemented on a prepared tooth and when it is time for the baby tooth to fall out, no more treatment will be needed, meaning the baby tooth and covered crown will come out as one unit. One of our pediatric specialists will be happy to advise you on which crown will be better suited for your child's treatment.
What are the benefits and considerations for each type of crown?
- Stainless steel crowns protect the primary molars (back baby teeth) that are decayed or did not form properly;
- Zirconia crowns are tooth-colored and may be an option for your child's treatment;
- A pulp therapy may be required prior to placing your child's crown.
Space Maintainers (Band & Loop)
Primary teeth should be saved until normal exfoliation occurs. In case of premature loss of primary teeth, especially when a back primary tooth is lost or removed, space maintainers preserve the teeth's proper alignment while making sure the new teeth will erupt in its proper position .
There are different types of space maintainers that have their own indications but band and loops are the most common ones.
At Aurora Kids Dentistry we can offer the option of prefabricated band and loops. With this option there is no need to make impressions and the device can be delivered in one single appointment.
What are some considerations for space maintainers?
- These appliances can be dislodged with hard and sticky foods (gummy bears, big bubble gums, hard candies, sticky caramels, etc.)
- If the appliance becomes dislodged, save it and call the office immediately.
- Follow ups are necessary which can be done during routine care hygiene appointments.
Conscious Sedation
Conscious (Mild) Sedation: Alleviating Anxiety
For children who are anxious or less compliant, we utilize conscious sedation to help create a calm and relaxed environment. Conscious sedation is a safe and effective approach that allows us to treat anxious children while they remain awake. Our goal is to ensure your child's comfort throughout the procedure.
Benefits of Conscious (Mild/Moderate) Sedation:
- Completing Lengthy and Complex Procedures: Sedation and sleep dentistry techniques enable us to perform lengthy and complex procedures without any recollection, ensuring optimal dental care for your child.
- Efficiency with Multiple Procedures: With sleep dentistry techniques, we can complete multiple procedures in a single visit, minimizing the need for multiple appointments and reducing inconvenience for both you and your child.
- Suitability for Special Needs: Sedation and sleep dentistry are particularly beneficial for patients with special needs, including those with mental or physical disabilities, ensuring they receive the necessary dental care in a comfortable and safe manner.
- Addressing Dental Fears and Phobias: For children with fears or phobias of the dentist or specific procedures, sleep dentistry can help alleviate anxiety and provide a more positive dental experience.
- Managing Severe Gag Reflex: Patients with a severe gag reflex who find it challenging to tolerate oral procedures can benefit from sleep dentistry techniques, enabling the dentist to perform necessary treatments more effectively.
Sleep Dentistry (GA)
General Anesthesia (Sleep Dentistry): Completing Procedures Painlessly.
In certain cases, deep sedation or general anesthesia (GA) may be recommended for sleep dentistry. General anesthesia allows dental work to be completed without any sensation of pain, awareness of the procedure, or recollection afterward. Our highly trained team will assess your child's specific needs and recommend GA for sleep dentistry only if necessary.
Benefits of Sleep Dentistry:
- Completing Lengthy and Complex Procedures: Sedation and sleep dentistry techniques enable us to perform lengthy and complex procedures without any recollection, ensuring optimal dental care for your child.
- Efficiency with Multiple Procedures: With sleep dentistry techniques, we can complete multiple procedures in a single visit, minimizing the need for multiple appointments and reducing inconvenience for both you and your child.
- Suitability for Special Needs: Sedation and sleep dentistry are particularly beneficial for patients with special needs, including those with mental or physical disabilities, ensuring they receive the necessary dental care in a comfortable and safe manner.
- Addressing Dental Fears and Phobias: For children with fears or phobias of the dentist or specific procedures, sleep dentistry can help alleviate anxiety and provide a more positive dental experience.
- Managing Severe Gag Reflex: Patients with a severe gag reflex who find it challenging to tolerate oral procedures can benefit from sleep dentistry techniques, enabling the dentist to perform necessary treatments more effectively.
What Else We Are offering?
Dental Care for children
Restorative Dentistry
Pediatric restorative dentistry refers to the practice of restoring the function and integrity of a tooth that has been impacted
Kids Dental Specialists that you can trust!
Our Doctors
As Kids Dental Specialists, the primary concern is your child’s oral health. Our goal is to provide excellent pediatric dental care in a warm caring and loving environment, this ensures that your child’s dental experience with us is as positive as possible.
We are happy to see children from new born age to late teenage years. The Canadian Dental Association recommends that your baby be assessed within 6 months of the eruption of the first tooth or by one year of age. In our experience we recommend bringing your baby for an oral exam as soon as possible, ideally right after birth.
This is so that it:
- Gives parents the opportunity to discuss what they should be doing to help establish good oral care habits.
- Gives us the opportunity to identify current or potential issues (tongue or lip-tie).
- Help identify long term dental issues as your child ages.
- Create a great dental experience. Bringing your child early helps them become more comfortable with the dental experience.
- Will allow your child to know what to expect at future dental reservations.
Dental Hygiene or Preventive dentistry is dental care that helps maintain good oral health. It’s a combination of regular dental check-ups along with developing good habits like brushing and flossing.
There are several benefits of dental hygiene / preventive dentistry:
- Can reduce the risk of tooth decay
- Can reduce the risk of gum disease
- Improves and maintains proper oral hygiene
- Promoting good dental habits, including brushing and flossing
- Guidance on oral habits (eg. thumb sucking)
- Nutritional counselling
- Fluoride application
- Helping identify related health issues that may impact a child’s oral health
- Routine X-rays to help track jaw and teeth development
- Recommend interceptive orthodontics if necessary
- Referrals to other dental specialists as needed
Dental sealants are thin coatings that when painted on the chewing surfaces of the back teeth (molars) can prevent cavities (tooth decay) for many years. Sealants protect the chewing surfaces from cavities by covering them with a protective shield that blocks out germs and food. Sealants do not replace flossing as the coating can only be applied to the biting surface and not in between teeth. *Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
- Protects the biting surface of the molars;
- Sealants are a quick, easy, and painless;
- Sealed teeth are checked at each cleaning.
How can interceptive orthodontics help your child?
The main goal of interceptive orthodontic treatment is guiding the growth and development of the jaws at an early stage. This type of treatment can prevent/minimize extensive treatments later on.
The benefits of interceptive orthodontics are:
- To improve the oral functions
- To align crooked teeth
- To correct crossbites
- To guide permanent teeth in a favorable position
- To correct oral habits such as thumb sucking, tongue thrusting, etc.
- To improve esthetics
- To reduce the risk of more complicated treatments in the future
Frenectomy is a procedure used to release the lip or tongue frenum. A restrictive lip and/or tongue frenum (tie) could be the reason why your child is having feeding difficulties, speech issues and/or improper jaw development.
The goal is to have your child visit the dentist for well baby check up before there is an issue with their teeth and/or growth and development of the jaws. In most cases, a dental exam will let your child’s dentist catch small problems early.
The procedure can also be performed on newborn babies. As a restrictive lip or tongue may interfere with breastfeeding. This frenectomy could help to relieve your child from daily struggles.
Benefits of using a laser to carry out a frenectomy:
- Here at our dental office, our pediatric dentists use a CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) laser to carry out this procedure.
- Minimal bleeding
- Minimal discomfort
- The procedure is rapid
- Clean and disinfected wound
Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is a liquid containing fluoride and silver particles. It can be considered a valuable therapy for caries management. It is applied directly to cavities with a small brush. SDF limits the growth of the bacteria, that causes tooth decay, therefore can limit the growth of the cavity. Caries lesions treated with SDF usually turn black and hard. Stopping the caries process in all targeted lesions may take several applications of SDF, and reapplication may be necessary to sustain arrest.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF SDF?
1. Help to stop cavities from growing and getting worse.
2. Slows the need for more invasive treatment when it is not possible to deliver the restorations
3. SDF can be used to buy time for very young children or difficult patients to manage till they are able to help with fillings.
4. Application of SDF is fast, easy, and painless.
5. SDF can relieve tooth sensitivity.
6. Can be used to treat baby teeth that are about to fall out as an adult tooth comes in.
What you need to consider :
The biggest disadvantage of SDF is the black discoloration of cavities that would be visible.
- Myofunctional therapy is a program of specific exercises that target the facial and oral muscles used to chew and swallow.
- These exercises strengthen the tongue and help to correct improper function of the facial and oral muscles.
- The main goals of myofunctional therapy is to restore nasal breathing, correct swallowing, and correct placement of tongue at rest.
Primary teeth that are significantly decayed or damaged may require a crown. As a general rule, pediatric crowns are recommended in cases where a dental filling is not enough to restore the tooth. There are two types of crowns that can be used depending on many variables. One is made of stainless steel and is a silver crown. The other choice is a zirconia crown which is tooth colored crown. Depending on the circumstance a zirconia crown can not always be used. The crowns will be cemented on a prepared tooth and when it is time for the baby tooth to come out, no more treatment will be needed, meaning the baby tooth and covered crown will come out as one unit. One of our pediatric specialist will be happy to advise you on which crown will be better suited for your child's treatment.
- Stainless steel crowns protect the baby molars (back teeth) that are decayed or did not form properly;
- Zirconia crowns are tooth colored and maybe a choice for your child's treatment;
- A pulp therapy may be required prior to placing your child's crown.
Primary teeth should be saved till normal exfoliation occurs. In case of premature loss of primary teeth, specially when a back primary tooth is lost or removed, space maintainers preserve the teeth's proper alignment while making sure the new teeth will erupt in its proper position .
There are different types of space maintainers that have their own indications but band and loops are the most common ones.
At Aurora Kids Dentistry we can offer the option of prefabricated band and loops. With this option there is no need to make impressions and the device can be delivered in one single appointment.
- These appliances can be dislodged with hard and sticky foods(gummy bears, big bubble gums, hard candies, sticky caramels, ...)
- If the appliance become dislodged, save it and call the office immediately.
- Follow ups are necessary these can be done during routine care hygiene appointments.
Conscious (Mild) Sedation: Alleviating Anxiety
For children who are anxious or less compliant, we utilize conscious sedation to help create a calm and relaxed environment. Conscious sedation is a safe and effective approach that allows us to treat anxious children while they remain awake. Our goal is to ensure your child's comfort throughout the procedure.
Benefits of Conscious (Mild/Moderate) Sedation:
- Completing Lengthy and Complex Procedures: Sedation and sleep dentistry techniques enable us to perform lengthy and complex procedures without any recollection, ensuring optimal dental care for your child.
- Efficiency with Multiple Procedures: With sleep dentistry techniques, we can complete multiple procedures in a single visit, minimizing the need for multiple appointments and reducing inconvenience for both you and your child.
- Suitability for Special Needs: Sedation and sleep dentistry are particularly beneficial for patients with special needs, including those with mental or physical disabilities, ensuring they receive the necessary dental care in a comfortable and safe manner.
- Addressing Dental Fears and Phobias: For children with fears or phobias of the dentist or specific procedures, sleep dentistry can help alleviate anxiety and provide a more positive dental experience.
- Managing Severe Gag Reflex: Patients with a sevre gag reflex who find it challenging to tolerate oral procedures can benefit from sleep dentistry tchniques, enabling the dentist to perform necessary treatments more effectively.
General Anesthesia (Sleep Dentistry): Completing Procedures Painlessly
In certain cases, deep sedation or general anesthesia (GA) may be recommended for sleep dentistry. General anesthesia allows dental work to be completed without any sensation of pain, awareness of the procedure, or recollection afterward. Our highly trained team will assess your child's specific needs and recommend GA for sleep dentistry only if necessary.
Benefits of Sleep Dentistry:
- Completing Lengthy and Complex Procedures: Sedation and sleep dentistry techniques enable us to perform lengthy and complex procedures without any recollection, ensuring optimal dental care for your child.
- Efficiency with Multiple Procedures: With sleep dentistry techniques, we can complete multiple procedures in a single visit, minimizing the need for multiple appointments and reducing inconvenience for both you and your child.
- Suitability for Special Needs: Sedation and sleep dentistry are particularly beneficial for patients with special needs, including those with mental or physical disabilities, ensuring they receive the necessary dental care in a comfortable and safe manner.
- Addressing Dental Fears and Phobias: For children with fears or phobias of the dentist or specific procedures, sleep dentistry can help alleviate anxiety and provide a more positive dental experience.
- Managing Severe Gag Reflex: Patients with a severe gag reflex who find it challenging to tolerate oral procedures can benefit from sleep dentistry techniques, enabling the dentist to perform necessary treatments more effectively.
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