At Corona Family Dental, we focus on providing comprehensive oral healthcare for patients ages 12 and up. We offer a wide range of services, including routine cleanings, fillings, and preventative care, ensuring the dental needs of the entire family are met in one convenient location. We emphasize creating a comfortable and welcoming environment, making dental visits a positive experience and fostering lifelong oral health.
Regular dental checkups are vital to maintaining proper oral health, and they are especially important for children. Children’s teeth change dramatically as they grow. Using a proactive approach with routine exams and checkups allows us to monitor new growth and prevent potential complications such as cavities and overcrowded adult teeth, ensuring a healthy and vibrant smile as they mature.
If decay or infection does take hold in your child’s teeth, there are restorative treatments that can help. Fillings are often used to restore teeth affected by cavities—a fairly common complication in children, and custom child-sized crowns may be used to further restore a tooth.
The brand of the toothbrush is not as critical as the type of bristle and the size of the head. A soft toothbrush with a small head is recommended because medium and hard brushes tend to cause irritation and contribute to recession of the gums, and a small head allows you to get around each tooth more completely and is less likely to injure your gums. It’s unnecessary to “scrub” the teeth as long as you are brushing at least twice a day and visiting your dentist at least twice a year for cleanings.
Both bridges and partial dentures replace missing teeth. A bridge is permanently attached to abutment teeth or, in some cases, implants. A partial denture is attached by clasps to the teeth and is easily removed by the patient. Patients are usually more satisfied with bridges than with partial dentures.
Generally, no. However, it’s advisable to use a fluoride containing toothpaste to decrease the incidence of dental decay. We recommend our patients use what tastes good to them as long as it contains fluoride.
Although the U.S. Public Health Service issued a report in 1993 stating there is no health reason not to use amalgam (silver fillings), more patients today are requesting “white” or tooth-colored composite fillings. We also prefer tooth-colored fillings because they “bond” to the tooth structure and therefore help strengthen a tooth weakened by decay. While fillings are also usually less sensitive to temperature, and they also look better. However, “white” fillings cannot be used in every situation, and if a tooth is very badly broken-down, a crown will usually be necessary and provide better overall satisfaction for the patient.
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