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If your child chips a tooth, rinse their mouth with water, control any bleeding with gentle pressure, use a cold compress for swelling, save any

Dental X-rays let us see decay between teeth, developing permanent teeth, and problems under the gums that no visual exam can catch. How often your

Sedation in pediatric dentistry is not one thing. It ranges from nitrous oxide, which wears off before your child leaves the building, to general anesthesia

Silver diamine fluoride, usually shortened to SDF, is a liquid we paint onto a cavity to stop it from getting worse. No drill, no shot,

Parents often tell us their child barely eats candy, and they cannot understand where the cavities came from. The answer is usually not the candy.

You walk past your child’s room and hear a sound like gravel under a shoe. Teeth grinding, or bruxism, is one of the more startling

Ask any pediatric dentist what injury they wish they saw less of, and the answer is a chipped or knocked-out front tooth from a sport

Baby teeth are designed to leave on their own schedule. The permanent tooth underneath pushes up, the root of the baby tooth dissolves, and one

Almost every parent asks the same question when we recommend a crown on a baby tooth: it is going to fall out anyway, so why