SARIA Dental Clinic

24/02/2026

Primary teeth are important…….

29/08/2025

👶 Did you know? Putting your baby to sleep with a bottle of milk or juice can silently destroy their teeth.

When a child falls asleep with a bottle, the liquid pools around their teeth. Milk, formula, or juice all contain natural sugars. While your baby sleeps, bacteria in the mouth feed on these sugars and produce acid. This acid attacks the delicate enamel of primary teeth, leading to rapid and severe decay — a condition known as Baby Bottle Caries.

Baby teeth may seem temporary, but they are essential for your child’s health. They guide proper speech, chewing, nutrition, and also act as natural placeholders for permanent teeth. When cavities occur early, children may suffer from pain, infections, difficulty eating, and even long-term effects on the growth of permanent teeth.

The earliest signs are white chalky spots or brown stains on the front teeth. If ignored, these progress to painful cavities and infections that often require dental treatment, even in very young children.

💡 Prevention is simple and powerful:

✅ Never put your baby to bed with a bottle of milk or juice — offer only water if needed.

✅ Wipe your baby’s gums with a clean cloth after feeding and start brushing as soon as the first tooth appears.

✅ Visit a dentist by your child’s first birthday for a professional check-up.

Protecting your child’s smile starts from day one. A small change in bedtime habits can prevent lifelong dental problems. 🦷✨

29/08/2025

TMJ dislocation reduction:

When a patient has a TMJ dislocation, the lower jaw slips forward and gets stuck in front of the articular eminence. The patient can’t close the mouth, and it looks and feels very uncomfortable.

To put the jaw back, here’s the step-by-step idea:

1. Patient relaxation
First, the patient must relax as much as possible. If they’re tense, the muscles will resist and reduction becomes very difficult.

2. Head support
The head needs to be stable—either against a headrest or braced firmly—so the force you apply goes into the mandible, not into moving the whole head.

3. Hand positioning

Put on gloves.

Your thumbs: either place them on the hard bone ridge just behind the molars (external oblique ridge) or on the biting surfaces of the lower molars (with gauze to protect your thumbs).

Your fingers: curl them under the jaw, around the mandible, with index fingers behind the rami for control.

4. Forces applied
The key sequence is:

Downward pressure: Push down firmly at the back of the jaw (using your thumbs). This pulls the condyle down and away from the articular eminence.

Upward support at the chin: At the same time, your other fingers rock the chin slightly upward.

Posterior pressure: Once the condyles are freed downward, guide the whole mandible backward so the condyles slip back into the socket.

Think of it as “Down first… then back.”

5. Result
If done properly, you’ll often feel or hear a “snap” as the condyles slide back into their normal position.

👉 The most important principle for you to remember is: never jerk suddenly. Use steady, firm, continuous force. The danger is if you rush, you could injure the TMJ or get bitten.

21/05/2025

Mandibular Nerve ✅
🍀Origin:
Trigeminal ganglion (of Gasser)

🍀Type:
Mixed: motor, sensory and autonomic fibers

🍀Pathway:
Trigeminal ganglion (middle cranial fossa) -> foramen ovale -> infratemporal fossa

🍀Branches:
⭐️Anterior division:
-Nerve to medial pterygoid muscle
-Nerve to tensor veli palatini
-Nerve to tensor tympani
-Masseteric nerve
-Deep temporal nerves
-Nerve to lateral pterygoid muscle
-Buccal nerve

⭐️Posterior division:
-Auriculotemporal nerve
-Lingual nerve
-Inferior alveolar nerve

⭐️Other branches (prior to bifurcation):
-Meningeal branch of mandibular nerve
-Branches of mandibular nerve to otic ganglion

🍀Innervation:
⭐️Sensory: Skin of the buccal region, sensory supply to the tongue (anterior ⅔), temporal region;

⭐️Motor: Masticatory muscles, mylohyoid muscle, anterior belly of digastric muscle, tensor veli palatini muscle, tensor tympani muscle

21/05/2025

06/03/2025

23/02/2025

Am in vacation pa! See you April!!!!

22/02/2025

22/02/2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Hybrid Seminar Oral Health Awareness. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.