{"id":1962,"date":"2020-11-11T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T09:40:41","slug":"taking-care-of-the-littlest-members-of-the-family-at-a-dentist-in-st-johns-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/taking-care-of-the-littlest-members-of-the-family-at-a-dentist-in-st-johns-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking care of the littlest members of the family at a dentist in St. Johns Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adults are often the target of oral care\nadvertising. Whether it’s a new whitening toothpaste or discreet orthodontics,\nthere are thousands of articles and ads out there to get you to buy into one\ntreatment or another. This makes sense seeing as small children are not likely\nto be the target audience of a blog article, however, this does not mean that\nthere isn\u2019t a wide variety of treatment options available for your little ones\nthat will benefit their oral care now and in the future. At Aura Dental<\/strong>, your dentist in St. John\u2019s Wood<\/a>,\nwe want to give your kids\npremium treatment, whether they just come for a ride in the chair and a little\ninspection or they are at the stage where we can do fissure sealant on their\nteeth, they are never too young to see the dentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The importance of early visits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating good habits early in childhood can help\nensure that these habits are continued into adulthood, from correct tooth cleaning\nto regular dental visits, you can teach your children that oral health is a\nvital part of their existence and this mindset can be instilled at a very young\nage. Children as young as 2 years old can come for a ride in the chair in order\nto help them feel that a trip to the dentist is fun rather than scary, we\ncreate an environment for kids that they feel comfortable with and start to\nbuild a relationship from them when they\u2019re young that we hope can continue\nwell into their adolescence and adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Removing stigma and fear before it has a chance\nto set in is another part of raising kids to feel comfortable with the dentist in St. John\u2019s Wood<\/strong>. By ensuring that their early\nappointments are positive ones, we can guarantee that when they are faced with\nsomeone that tells them the dentist is scary, they will be able to respond for\nthemselves that it simply isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treatments for kids<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While bringing children up to love the dentist in St. John\u2019s Wood<\/strong> is important, so is the actual\ncare of their teeth, which is why there are treatments available just for kids\nto ensure the health and strength of their teeth as they grow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fluoride\ntreatments<\/strong> – unfortunately, children can get cavities\ntoo, especially if they are regularly consuming sugary foods and drinks. Their\nsoft young teeth are vulnerable to cavities and that pain isn\u2019t pleasant. But\nwe can paint a fluoride varnish onto teeth as soon as they have grown (yes,\nthis includes baby teeth) in order to protect them from harmful foods. This\ntreatment can be done with each regular bi-annual or quarterly trip to the\ndentist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fissure\nsealants<\/strong> – further protection to children\u2019s teeth come\nin the form of a fissure sealant. This is like a glue that we insert onto the\ntops of the back teeth which seals them off as they are growing in order to\nstop food from collecting inside the back teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orthodontic\nmonitoring<\/strong> – did you know that children as young as 6\nor 7 can get orthodontic appliances to help guide the growth of the teeth into\nthe correct position, bu monitoring the growth of your kid\u2019s teeth over the\nyears and through the use of X-rays we are able to predict any orthodontic\nissues that may present themselves and fix them earlier rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adults are often the target of oral care advertising. Whether it’s a new whitening toothpaste or discreet orthodontics, there are thousands of articles and ads out there to get you to buy into one treatment or another. This makes sense seeing as small children are not likely to be the target audience of a blog … Continue reading Taking care of the littlest members of the family at a dentist in St. Johns Wood<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Taking care of the littlest members of the family at a dentist in St. Johns Wood | %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dentists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auradentallondon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}