Hi, it's me, Dr. Aryani again from Presidential Holistic Dentistry. A lot of our new patients are surprised to find out that not only we see adult patients in our practice, but also we see children. And they're even more surprised when they heard that we see children as early as two years old.
Why is it important for us to see children? Because there's a lot of prevention that we can discuss when children come to our practice with their parents. When patients come, we do the evaluation. For instance, how does their bite look like? Because 85% of children now, they're born with or they grow with something called malocclusion or bad bite.
For instance, deep bite, open bite, crowding, cross bite. Or they also have a TMJ issue or they already have some headaches when they wake up in the morning and so on and so forth. So we're going to see if children have malocclusion or not.
Other thing that we watch or that we discuss with patients as well is nutrition. Nutrition is very important because nowadays our society is bombarded with highly sugary and highly processed food.
Those can affect not only the teeth in the form of cavities and also gum disease, but also can impact the way the jaw grows. Because highly processed food makes the children not really chewing the food properly. And because of that, the muscle and the jaw is not really grow as it's supposed to be.
The other thing that we address on the visit is to see if there's any bad habits, such as thumb sucking, pacifier sucking, bite on the objects, mouth breathing. Those are the things that can affect also the growth of the jaw.
Dr. Earl Bergensen, in his research, found out that 9 out of 10 children experience something called sleep disorder breathing.
This is a disorder that's more common than not found in children. We heard there is a saying that, you know, you sleep like a baby, which indicates peaceful and relaxed sleep. But nowadays, 9 out of 10 children may be experiencing this sleep disorder breathing.
So that's why we're being mindful to see if there are any signs or symptoms that we can see during this visit. If your children experience this, such as, for instance, snoring or stop breathing, clenching and grinding, wakes up at night with night terrors, bad wetting, and all other host issues that we're going to explore during that visit.
Also very important is how they breathe. Do they breathe through their nose? Do they breathe through their mouth?
If we see that they breathe through their mouth, then there are other things that we're going to address to prevent that this is not going to be a habit, and then children can breathe through their nose normally, and then they can grow properly.
If you have any questions regarding child's first visit, please don't hesitate to call us 610-664-1641 or 240-550-1442.
Thank you. Bye.
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