Children’s Dental Blog & News
7 Tips to Ease Your Child’s Fear of the Dentist
Any child, regardless of age, might experience anxiety or panic at the mere mention of a dentist appointment. Fear of the dentist can develop at a young age. Although dental anxiety is not something that is innate in children, certain events or experiences in their...
Tips For Infant Oral Care From Our Utah Pediatric Dentists
If there's drool constantly dripping from your baby's mouth and chin and she wants to put everything in her mouth all of a sudden, then congratulations! Your baby's tooth is probably on its way. While you might be concentrating on relieving her gum pain and providing...
How to Get Your Child to Floss
Ever wondered how to get your young child to start flossing? Many questions arise, like, what’s the best age to start flossing? Do they start with traditional floss or floss sticks? How frequently should they floss? What’s the best technique to teach them to floss so...
Why is My Child’s Tooth Grey? Grey Teeth Explained
While the majority of our population is in fact, not dental experts, society actually as a whole has a few very firm (and correct) understandings and expectations when it comes to the topic of healthy teeth. We expect our babies to grow the first few adorable little...
Reasons Why Restoring Baby Teeth is Important
"They're just going to fall out eventually, so why do we need to treat or restore the baby teeth?" This question comes up more often than you might think, and in a way, it has logic to it. After all, we don't fix broken or chipped fingernails, we let them fall off or...
Why Your Baby Should See a Pediatric Dentist Before One Year
When you've got a little one in your home, that first year of their life is full of exciting new moments and milestones; first smiles, sitting up, crawling, first full night of sleep, walking, first words, and among others, the first tooth! As your local pediatric...
Summer Parties Can Be Fun for Your Smile Too
Summer's here and we're so excited about it! A break from the homework and the out-of-the-house rush in the mornings without forgetting backpacks or snack packs is due. Pool parties, barbecues, grill parties, sports team tournaments, rec league games, and all the...
How Utah Pediatric Dentists Can Help with Breastfeeding Struggles
You might be thinking to yourself, how in the world would a pediatric dentist help with breastfeeding? To be sure, there are several resources available to mothers with breastfeeding struggles; including a doula, a midwife, a lactation consultant, or the international...
Pediatric Dentistry: Move It to the Top of Your To-Do List
With our busy schedules and seemingly endless to-do lists, it is easy to put off taking our kids to the dentist – we probably don’t go ourselves unless we are suffering from unendurable pain. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, right? This expression might have...
Reasons Why Pediatric Dentists Are Best for Your Autistic Child
April is well-known for hi jinks and tricks on the very first day, the beautiful blossoms on trees signifying the end of the cold winter months, and dewy cool mornings, however, did you also know that April is also the national awareness month for Autism Acceptance?...
March is National Nutrition Awareness Month
This month we're here to hit the topic of nutrition in light of the fact that March is the national nutrition awareness campaign. Nutrition is tightly bound to dental health in all of us, regardless of age. Nevertheless, in our children, the cyclical nature of...
Why Does Utah Pediatric Dentistry Use a Carbon Dioxide Laser?
Have you heard of lasers being utilized in pediatric dentistry? We aren't talking about the red security alarm lasers that make the burning hiss sound in Mission Impossible movies when Tom Cruise is conducting international spy feats that boggle the mind. Instead,...
Why Sedation Dentistry Can Help Your Kids
A major part of maintaining dental health for both kids and adults is prevention. Prevention encompasses the daily routines of brushing and flossing that are vital, and furthermore prevention includes biannual checkups and professional cleanings. Unfortunately, the...
National Children’s Dental Health Awareness Month
February is the month of: candied chalky hearts, gummy jelly beans, valentines, romance, the disappearing and reappearing 29th (leap year), and children's dental health awareness. How's that for a bit of irony? In the month of the holiday that literally only...
Get the Most Out of Your Dental Insurance Benefits This Year
Did the year 2021 lapse without you maximizing your kids' dental insurance benefits for your family? As parents, we pay significant attention to our medical insurance coverage while we typically maximize those benefits simply by living out our normal lives, yet dental...
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