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Children’s Dentistry

Start your child’s dental care early, as soon as their first milk teeth appear. Regular visits will familiarise them with our environment and friendly team. Our skilled dentist with special interest in children’s dental needs, preventing decay, and catching issues early. Teaching your child to open their mouth for the dentist’s check is great preparation for future care.

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At Longwood House, we work with a children’s dentist and hope that you and your child benefit from this service.

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Dr. Suma Venugopal

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Dr. Suma Venugopal has experience in hospital, general, and community dentistry, treating both children and adults in all aspects of general dentistry. She has developed a real interest in treating children and she enjoys getting to know her patients and putting them at ease.

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You will need to attend the first consultation with your child for a full assessment and treatment planning. For the first visit, please only attend with the child being seen, and both parents must attend at this consultation stage.

Tooth Decay

Prevention is the key to oral health. Helping kids to have healthy teeth is our main goal as children’s dentists and instill positive oral care habits in children that will serve them well throughout their lives. By focusing on early intervention and education, we aim to equip young patients with the knowledge and tools necessary to maintain a healthy dentition from childhood through adulthood.

Tips for prevention of decay start with children from when they are babies
  • In the first instance parents need to start weaning their children off night time bottle/breast feeding after 1yr of age. Night time decreased saliva secretion decreased clearing action of saliva, lactogen in milk is a risk factor for what we call ‘nursing caries’.
     
  • Toddlers and young children:watch that diet does not have too much sugar, frequency more important than quantity. In between meal time eating needs to be sugar free/savory snacks, encourage fruits.Be careful of hidden sugars in crisps.
     
  • Things like biscuits/cakes/traditional sweets like ‘mithai/halwa etc’ all high in sugar. Sweet, fizzy drinks not good.
     
  • Brushing teeth twice a day especially at night time very important. Parents need to assist children upto 7 yrs of age due to lack of proper development of child’s manual dexterity.
Teenagers
  • Beware of changing lifestyle patterns that impact dietary changes and changes in brushing habits.
     
  • Fluoride mouthwash in children after 7yrs of age in decay-prone children.
     
  • Use of age-appropriate fluoridated toothpaste.


Dr. Venugopal‘s Advice

Brushing effectively with fluoride toothpaste twice a day.
Reducing the amount and frequency of sugar intake.
Avoid snacking on unhealthy food.
Visiting your dentist regularly from the age of two.

For children who feel nervous about visiting the dentist, our highly experienced dental professionals provide a reassuring and gentle touch. Your child will be treated with the utmost care, ensuring a comfortable and supportive experience every step of the way.

Many parents believe that children’s first dentition is not important and a loss of a tooth is ‘OK.’ This is simply not true. Decay and poor dental development have a profound impact on the development of your Child’s adult teeth.

Extraction of teeth at a young age can create an imbalance, causing the adult set of teeth to come through in a ‘crooked’ manner. Your dentist may also refer your child to an experienced dentist in order to avoid treatment under a general anesthetic (as this carries great risk to your Child’s general well-being).

The dentist can occasionally “win” your child over, build up their confidence, and alleviate their anxiety; thus on many occasions, General Anaesthesia can be avoided.

It is always worth exploring this route! For those children requiring difficult treatment or who have a fear of dentistry, the dentist can use sedation- sometimes referred to as “twilight sleep “ or “Happy Gas”.

This is a safe, short-acting, and efficient way to relieve anxiety in a child. The aim is to provide gentle and pain-free treatment and build up a positive attitude towards dentistry.

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