A Dental Home is a place where children can receive consistent, comprehensive, compassionate dental care.

Establishing a "Dental Home" means that your child's oral health care is delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated and family-centered way by a licensed dentist. The concept of the Dental Home reflects clinical guidelines and best principles for the proper delivery of oral health care to all children, with a concentration on infant/age one patients. The Dental Home enhances the dental professional's ability to assist children and their parents in the quest for optimum oral health care, beginning with the age one dental visit for successful preventive care and treatment as part of an overall oral health care foundation. Additionally, the establishment of the Dental Home will include referral to other dental specialists when the pediatric or general dentist cannot provide the needed care.

• Comprehensive oral health care, including acute care and preventive services;
• Comprehensive assessment for oral diseases and conditions
• An individualized preventive dental health program based upon a caries-risk assessment and a periodontal disease risk assessment.
• Information about proper care of the child’s teeth and gingivae
• Referrals to dental specialists when care cannot directly be provided within the dental home

Stress Management for Children

Think about all the stressors that can cause anxiety in a typical adult’s day: Noise. electronic stimulation from TVs, computers, cell phones, and other constant information-emitting devices. Traffic. Juggling work responsibilities, activities, and family in our busy, 24-7 society.

For children, who tend to be more susceptible to noise and commotion, day-to-day stress triggers can be amplified, making the need for quiet downtime even more crucial. Add to that school and after-school activities, the pressure to succeed (whether it comes from outside or from within themselves), family changes or conflicts, and a host of other factors that can lead to anxiety and you have the perfect recipe for child stress.

Fluoride Therapy

Dental caries, more usually known as tooth decay, is caused by acid-producing bacteria that collect around the teeth and gums in a sticky, clear film called "plaque." Without good daily oral hygiene and regular dental visits, teeth become more vulnerable to caries.
Brushing twice a day and cleaning between teeth with floss or another type of interdental cleaner help remove plaque. Regular dental examinations and cleanings also are important for keeping teeth healthy.
Systemic fluorides are those that are swallowed. Examples include fluoridated water and dietary fluoride supplements. The maximum reduction in dental caries is achieved when fluoride is available both topically and systemically. If you, or a family member, are at a moderate-to-high risk of developing caries, a professional fluoride treatment can help. The fluoride preparation used in the dental office is a much stronger concentration than that in toothpastes or fluoride mouthrinses that may be available in a store or at a pharmacy.

Common sources of dietary fluoride include:
• tea
• water
• food cooked in water
• COther harmful oral habits
• fish eaten with their bones

Dental Caries (Tooth Decay)

Dental caries (tooth decay) is a major oral health problem in most industrialised countries, affecting 60–90% of schoolchildren and the vast majority of adults.
The early manifestation of the caries process is a small patch of demineralised (softened) enamel at the tooth surface, often hidden from sight in the fissures (grooves) of teeth or in between the teeth. The destruction spreads into the softer, sensitive part of the tooth beneath the enamel (dentine). The weakened enamel then collapses to form a cavity and the tooth is progressively destroyed. Caries can also attack the roots of teeth should they become exposed by gum recession. This is more common in older adults.

Most people do not know what the word caries means. Dental Caries is another word for tooth decay or cavities. In the India children between the ages of 6-19, with untreated dental caries was 16.2% during the years 2005-2008, and for adults over the age of 19 with untreated dental caries that were untreated were 23.7%. Dental Caries is a currently huge problem in the United States. Many people have a lack of knowledge, along with not caring or taking proper care of their teeth. Dental caries is one of the most common diseases seen in the human body second to the common cold. There must be more education taught to try and prevent this problem.

Diet center & coffee shop

Nutritive sucking and non-nutritive sucking are among the most commonly reported oral habits in children. These habits generally cease around four years of age as interaction with other children increases. However, prolonged habits may alter dento-skeletal development, leading to orthodontic problems, which may persist into the permanent dentition. Rewards, reminder therapy, and appliance therapy have been described for the management of nutritive and non-nutritive sucking habits. Reminder therapy includes the use of gloves, thumb-guards, mittens, and tastants applied to fingers.

When other modes of treatment have failed, appliance therapy, such as palatal cribs or Bluegrass appliances, may be necessary to prevent the placement of the digit in its sucking position. These tools are very effective and are associated with few adverse effects; however, they must be used with the cooperation of the child and never as punishment. The purpose of this paper is to update clinicians about nutritive and non-nutritive sucking habits in children and their impact on dental/skeletal development, and management options.

Orthodontics

Orthodontics is devoted to building beautiful smiles by bringing teeth, lips, and jaws into proper alignment. Straight teeth function better, are easier to clean, and are more likely to last your lifetime.

The orthodontists at our clinics can improve most tooth and jaw alignment problems at any age. The American Association of Orthodontists recommends that children see an orthodontist no later than age seven.

• Orthodontists do more than cosmetic dental treatment. They work to improve your smile and overall oral health by straightening your teeth and aligning your bite.
• Crooked teeth, crowded teeth, overbites and underbites can all lead to tooth decay, gum disease, and even tooth loss. With these possibilities, finding the best dentist in Bangalore having a good orthodontist as his consultant is of the utmost importance.