The pediatric dentistry or Paedodontics is a branch in dentistry that specialized in all dental treatments of children. It is concerned about the primary and comprehensive oral health care with the aim to help the children to achieve the optimal oral health. Provision of care includes therapeutic oral health care, restorative and preventive components with emphasis on prevention and early interception of oral disease of infant and children through adolescence. Due to pediatric dentistry merely focused on treating children, they can handle the behavior and fear of children included the one with special health care needs compare to non-pediatric dentist. Sometimes, they need to use the conscious sedation in order to keep the children safe during the certain dental treatment. The pediatric dentist usually deals with early childhood caries (baby bottle tooth caries), early missing tooth, misalignment tooth and others problems. The Paedodontics use dental sealants to protect the tooth from decay after they are erupts especially the molars. The Paedodontics also helps the parent by giving the advice on the best way to keep their children’s gums and teeth healthy.
Orthodontics is one of the most famous branches in dentistry nowadays. It is the branch in dentistry that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of dental and facial irregularities. Years ago, orthodontics treatment is only for the teenagers which are have malocclusion (improper bites) but recently orthodontics treatment covers adults as well. Since malocclusion may interfere eating and speaking, the treatment can maximize the effectiveness of teeth. Orthodontics treatment is using metal wires as well as orthodontics brackets to align the tooth to desire positions. They also use jack screw, retainer and elastics to achieve the ideal position of teeth. The treatment also can help people with disproportionate jaw relationship as well as rejuvenate the facial appearance. The orthodontics also helps their patients with congenital skeletal deformities which affect the occlusion.
In general, prosthetics is the branch in medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts. The prosthetics dentistry is mainly concerned about the restoration or replacement of the tooth whether fixed or removable prosthetics. This specialty will cover three main areas that are includes crown, bridges and dentures. Due to improve the esthetical values, there are several things that are introduces such as veneers, implant and inlays. The prosthetics dentistry will help the patient to get back the normal look of their teeth as well as its functions or replace the missing tooth, one or the whole arches. Besides that, the prosthetics dentistry maybe related to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery specialty where they help their patients through the plastic and reconstructive facial surgery or Prosthodontics in replacing the missing tooth. The most recent method in prosthetics dentistry is they are using laser photonics for denture design optimization.
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