What To Expect When Visiting Baldwin Park Dentist

By James Richy


In going to the Baldwin Park dentist you should be prepared and expect many things. Some dentists have many proposals for the things you predict when you visit them. Most dentists have their websites and they have much information that will help you to understand what you're expecting from your trip to them. Dentists are good today in telling you what is happening to you, inside your mouth and what you should do to take good care of it and what to do everyday.

Sometimes braces are needed due to genetic reasons. Many orthodontic problems such as jaw and tooth size, overbites, under bites, extra or missing teeth and jaw discrepancies may lead to teeth spacing and crowding issues down the road. These are inherited problems that can't be prevented. Other times, orthodontic problems are caused by accidents or dental disease. Orthodontic issues also can be the result of children's poor mouth habits. Thumb sucking, using a pacifier, breathing through the mouth and tongue thrusting all are problems that can be corrected through early childhood orthodontic intervention.

Thumb-Sucking - Sucking the thumb, fingers or a pacifier beyond age four or five can result in deformation of localized teeth and supporting bone. Baldwin Park Dentists say this is because by age four or five, a child's permanent are preparing to erupt. Prolonged thumb-sucking also can cause the upper teeth to stick out as they erupt. It can make the lower teeth become crooked and can create a narrow upper palate.

Mouth Breathing - It may sound strange, but children who breathe excessively through their mouths can cause serious problems in their cranio-facial development that could lead to the need for jaw surgery if left untreated for a long time. Mouth breathing also can lead to serious malocclusions. There is a direct relationship between the degree of mouth breathing and the severity of malocclusion in many patients. Additionally, there are multiple other health issues associated with incorrect breathing. Getting orthodontic treatment while children still are young has made correcting these issues easier and has eliminated the need for surgery in many cases.

In IV (intravenous) sedation, the sedative is administered directly into the blood stream. The patient can sleep through all or most of the procedure. Also after having IV sedation you will most likely not have any memory of your procedure. With oral sedation the sedative is weaker than the one given intravenously and it is given orally. Most individuals fall into a sleep like state and remain comfortable and relaxed during the procedure. Most people will not have much memory of their experience in the dentist's chair. The third and most common and well known method of sedation is often referred to as laughing gas. Laughing gas is a type of sedation that is inhaled. When the drug is inhaled its effects are to calm and relax, not necessarily to make you fall asleep. Inhaled sedation will not necessarily make you laugh, it is intended to make you feel so much at ease that you could feel like laughing if you wanted too. Since the patient is conscious with inhaled sedation, administering additional doses of the sedative is relatively simple. The effects of the sedative gas are much more temporary than those of other sedation methods and memory is commonly unaffected.




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