Spotting a Cavity on Your Child’s Teeth, Stage by Stage A cavity does not start as a hole. It starts as a chalky white patch you can only see on a dry tooth, and by the time there is a visible hole it has been developing for months. Knowing what each stage looks like is […]
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Can a Cavity Be Reversed? What Actually Works and What Doesn’t The honest answer is yes, but only at one stage, and that stage ends before most parents ever notice anything. Tooth decay isn’t a single event: it’s a slow tug of war between minerals leaving the enamel and minerals returning to it, and for
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Cavities Between Teeth in Children: Why You Can’t See Them Coming The most common cavities in school-age children form on the surfaces where two teeth touch, and those are exactly the surfaces you can’t see. A cavity between teeth can grow through the enamel and into the softer layer beneath while the tooth still looks
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A Pimple on Your Child’s Gums? It Could Be a Dental Abscess A pimple-like bump on a child’s gum, sometimes called a gum boil, is usually a dental abscess: a pocket of infection at the root of a tooth that has found a path out through the gum. An abscess doesn’t heal on its own,
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A Bluish Bump on Your Child’s Gums: What an Eruption Cyst Is You look in your child’s mouth expecting a new tooth and instead see a soft, bluish bump on the gum. It looks alarming, but in most cases it is an eruption cyst, a harmless swelling that forms right before a tooth breaks through.
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Shark Teeth: When a Permanent Tooth Comes In Behind a Baby Tooth Your child opens wide and there it is: a second row of teeth, an adult tooth coming in behind a baby tooth that has not budged. It looks like a shark’s mouth, which is where the nickname comes from, and it tends to
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When a Baby Tooth Has to Come Out: What to Expect Hearing that your child needs a tooth removed can sound worse than it is. Baby teeth are meant to fall out on their own, but sometimes decay, injury, or crowding makes it better to take one out early. The visit is usually quick and
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Your Child Needs a Crown? What That Means and What to Expect Most parents think of crowns as something for adults, so hearing that your child needs one on a baby tooth can be a surprise. A crown is a cap that covers a whole tooth when there’s too much damage for a filling to
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How Space Maintainers Prevent Crowding After Early Tooth Loss When a baby tooth falls out or gets extracted before the permanent tooth is ready to replace it, the neighboring teeth can drift into the gap and leave no room for the adult tooth. A space maintainer is a small appliance that holds that gap open
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Dental Sealants for Kids: A Complete Parent’s Guide Your child’s dentist mentioned sealants at the last cleaning, and you nodded along, then went home and looked them up. Are they worth it? Are they safe? Do they actually work? The short answer is yes to all three, but the longer answer is more useful, because
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