Dr. Anamaya’s Pediatric and Preventive Dental Care

04/09/2021

DIET AND FACIAL GROWTH IN CHILDREN! HAS WESTERN DIET AFFECTED FACIAL GROWTH?

The I’ll effects of processed food is not limited only to the general health but it also strongly influences how our faces develop.

🌟Just as physical activity helps enhance the general health and is believed to help increase the child’s height, Chewing helps bone cells to be deposited while helping in laying down the bone matrix. This helps in the horizontal and vertical bone growth in response to mechanical force of chewing.
🌟Facial muscles derive their correct shape and function from the jawbones.
🌟 Proper tongue position and swallowing pattern play an important role. If there is a wider palate the tongue can rest in the roof of the mouth and guide the growth. insufficient growth could lead to the tongue resting in the lower jaw and the jaws tend to under develop. This could lead to narrow jaws, open mouth and May also be one of the causes of mouth breathing.

How much we chew, and what we chew substantially dictates the shape and growth of our jaws. Children who eat more refined foods have smaller and lesser developed jaws than those who eat traditional diets with tough foods.

Please feel free to drop in your queries.

21/08/2021

Eruption gingivitis with pericoronitis!

In this pic we see a 6 year old kid who is about to get his fist permanent molar. Due to lack of proper oral hygiene, there was plaque accumulation and inflammation. This eventually lead to immense pain and also tooth decay under the flap. As you can notice the gum around the partially erupted tooth has turned red and is swollen.

The tooth prior to eruption is covered by soft tissue/ gingiva(pic 2).

Operculum is the small flap like soft tissue covering the crown of the partially erupted tooth.
The area is difficult to access hence leads to accumulation of plaque and food debris (pic 3).

At home care:

1. warm salt water rinses.
2. Enhanced and better oral hygiene practices.
3. Regular use of mouthwashes to get rid of any food debris and plaque.

If the pain gets unbearable please do not self medicate. Consult your dentist for proper medications and mode of treatment needed.

18/06/2021

 ‘MOUTH BREATHING AWARENESS’.

It is a common oral habit in children which goes unnoticed.
The long term implications if untreated are many and severe.

Sleep Apnea, lower back pain, headaches, constipation are just some of the long term effects.

The common effects seen in children are: long face, tired eyes, narrow jaws, mal aligned teeth, multiple tooth decays and bad odour.

Children who mouth breathe are very commonly inattentive and cranky in school due to disturbed sleep at night.

Early recognition and treatment to stop the habit and get the child to nasal breathe is the best way out.

Please feel free to drop in your queries if any.

31/03/2021

🦷 Mouth breathing corrected ✅
🦷Malalligned teeth corrected ✅
🦷Swallowing habit corrected ✅
🦷Nasal breathing achieved ✅
🦷Balanaced Facial growth achieved ✅
🦷NO BRACES ✅

All the above major changes were achieved by only using a myofunctional appliance! Myofunctional appliance involves correcting the breathing habits (mouth to nasal breathing) and improving the inappropriate pressure on and by the muscles of the face.

Myofunctional appliances are made up of soft acrylic which are comfortable to wear and have to be worn for only a few hours in a day. The patient is expected to do some very basic exercises to train to muscles of the face.

Do feel free to drop in any questions.

17/11/2020

Teething is an unpleasant time for the infants and their parents.
But teething is a time which coincides with some major developmental changes in a child.

Fever, Diarrahoea, crankiness are NOT the signs of teething!

Do have a look at the video below and get all your myths on teething busted!

Do watch out for some easy and safe remedies to deal with teething!

Feel free to drop your questions in the comment section below.

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10/10/2020

Teething is a time which coincides with a lot of major developmental changes in a child.

⭐️ At around 3-4 months of age, the salivary glands start developing-hence more amount of saliva. However the muscles are not fully developed to help in holding and swallowing all the saliva that is produced.
Also the reason for excessive drooling.

⭐️Hand to mouth & putting things in the mouth doesn’t always mean only teething. They are a child’s way of exploring the world around them.
It’s a child’s way of self-soothing also. Having said that, it is one of the reasons for diarrhoea, due to germs.

⭐️At about 6 months of age, the child begins to develop innate immunity. Till then the maternal antibiodies would take care of all illnesss and infections.
It is also the time when children are introduced to food other than only breast milk.
Thus making the child susceptible to infections/ fever.

Thus it is advised to contact your Pediatrician at the right time.
Symptoms associated with Teething should subside within 7-10 days and are usually mild in nature.

Hope this answers most of the queries.
Feel free to drop your questions in the comments below.

Anamaya Bhobe

09/09/2020

A little positive reinforcement does wonders while working with children.

These bright and wide smiles say it all.

Our bravery medals for our brave little stars 🌟

12/08/2020

We turn 1 🎂

A year which taught us to face the challenges with a bright smile and confidence 🦷
A year which taught us a lot more about the safety precautions- and we are grateful as now we provide an even better and a safer environment for our little stars ✨

An assurance to provide the best care always 🙏 Anamaya Bhobe

Thank you The Scrub Life for the absolutely comfortable and smart scrub set!

01/07/2020

Appreciation is the best form of gift, and if it comes from a sweet and cute 3 year old, it makes the joy grow multi-fold. Thank you Bhuvika for making this Doctor’s Day so special.

20/06/2020

Hello everyone.
Before we restart practise on Monday 22nd June 2020, we thought of sharing the new additions in sterilisation protocol.
We at Dr. Anamaya’s, have always followed a very strict sterilisation protocol from the beginning.
The new additions are:
1. Sharp J 40 Air purifier with HEPA 14 filters-to take care of the microbial load in the operatory.
2. High vaccum suction with large cannula.
3.Apart from that regular moping with detergent water followed by moping with sodium hypochlorite.
4.Cold fogging the entire clinic with Hypochlorous Acid with Peroxide (before-after every patient).

Since we are an exclusive Pediatric dental clinic, we take care to sanitize each and every toy/book in our play-area.
We sanitize them post every patient and keep shuffling them through the day.

Safety of the kids and accompanying parent is paramount .

26/03/2020

SOCIAL DISTANCING is practised by teeth too!
Space maintainers are very commonly used when there is premature loss of a milk tooth with ample time remaining for eruption of the permanent tooth!
Not maintaining the space gives way to a lot of problems in the permanent dentition the most common one being crooked permanent teeth!
Below we see a Band and loop space maintainer which is commonly given when there is premature loss of a single primary tooth! Anamaya Bhobe

24/03/2020