Who is a Pedodontist?

 A Pedodontist is a dentist who monitors children's oral and dental health from their infancy. The primary goal of Pedodontists is to ensure that children who come to their clinic embrace the importance of oral and dental care. Pedodontists inform both the family and the children about dental care. They help regulate the child's eating habits.

When Should Babies Go to the Dentist?

Experts say that children first meet the dentist between the ages of 6-13, when their baby teeth start to appear. In this way, the baby's oral and dental development is reviewed.

What is the Importance of Milk Teeth?

Milk teeth, which start to appear from the 6th month, are completed by the age of 3, and a total of 20 milk teeth appear. The function of milk teeth is to enable speech, nutrition, and to hold space for the teeth that will come from behind. When milk teeth are lost, this space maintainer disappears. In order to prevent curvatures in the teeth, space maintainers should be made following tooth loss. The shedding of milk teeth varies from child to child. In children, milk teeth begin to fall out with the front teeth at the age of 6-7, and the second milk molars are finished falling out around the age of 12.

What is a Space Maintainer?

Milk teeth, which start to appear at the age of 6 months and continue to appear until the age of 3, normally begin to fall out around the age of 6-7. Space maintainers are made to provide space for the milk teeth that need to be extracted prematurely. To prevent space loss, technicians prepare the space maintainers after the dentist takes the measurements. The prepared space maintainers are applied to the patient's mouth by the pedodontist.

Space maintainers are made in two ways: fixed and removable. Fixed space maintainers are applied by bonding them to the support teeth, and permanent tooth retainers are removed by the dentist.

Mobile space maintainers are removed by the child. In order to prevent space loss in a healthy way, removable space maintainers should only be removed after eating to brush the teeth and then reattached.