Paediatric Dentistry is an age-defined specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care for infants and children through adolescence, including those with special health care needs.
The role of paediatric dentists ranges from primary prevention of dental disease and maintenance of optimal oral health to providing comprehensive restorative care for both children who are healthy and those with special needs. Therefore, it encompasses a variety of disciplines, techniques, procedures, and skills that share a common basis with other specialties, but are modified and adapted to the unique requirements of infants, children, adolescents, and those with special health care needs. Disciplines such as behaviour guidance, care of the medically and developmentally compromised and disabled patient, supervision of orofacial growth and development, caries prevention, sedation, pharmacological management, and hospital dentistry, as well as other traditional fields of dentistry, all are within the remit of paediatric dentistry. As children go through ever-changing stages of development, these skills are adapted to their needs for treating conditions and diseases unique to growing individuals.
Treatments offered by our specialty include:
• Primary and secondary prevention
• Oral health advice for carers and children
• Restorative care for early childhood caries
• Advanced restorative care for children with developmental defects of the teeth
• Restorative care for genetic conditions, such as Amelogenesis Imperfecta
• Multidisciplinary care for children with complex anomalies in their dental developmental.
• Management of dental trauma in both primary and permanent teeth in children
• Oral care and restorative care for children with medical conditions such as heart defects and cancer
• Management of children with behavioural problems, including children with Autism
• Restorative care for anxious children both with behaviour modification techniques and/or sedation
• Comprehensive restorative care for decayed teeth under general anaesthesia
