When should your child be seen for orthodontics?
Parents often ask this question. This is determined by the patients dental age rather than chronological age. Braces are generally linked with teenager yet this isn’t always true. Treatments can begin as early as seven years of age. A right time to have an orthodontist assess your child is after the front permanent teeth have …
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Why a custom fitted mouthguard is essential for sport
Each year dentists around the country meet too many children with trauma to their teeth and mouth because of a sporting injury. Several of these injuries could have been avoided if the child was wearing a customized mouthguard. Mouthguards are worn by professional athletes and the sooner children start wearing them and consider them as …
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What to do if you have a broken or knocked out tooth
Nearly 50% of children will have some type of injury to a tooth during childhood. Many of these are preventable. While most traumatic injuries occur in children and teenagers, people of all ages can be affected. We see tooth trauma from all sorts of situations such as falls, sports injuries, playground injuries, fighting, car accidents …
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