Childcare Services
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SPECIALISTS
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Our main priority is to provide excellent service so that parents can be 100% sure their kids are safe and taken care of!
Prophylaxis and Prevention
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Early childhood caries (ECC) is a particularly virulent form of dental caries, characterised by a massive infection load. It is associated with poor feeding practices. ECC is currently the most common chronic disease in children, affecting 60-90% of children worldwide, which means that approximately 600 million children suffer from ECC. Dr. Gamze Erdogan has conducted extensive research on dental caries in children and adolescents and has implemented techniques and approaches in her practice that aim for ZERO CARIES.
Pit and fissure sealing is a caries prevention procedure that consists of filling the most vulnerable parts of certain teeth with a suitable paste; most often the molars. The sealing of grooves is an act of prevention of caries and one of the most effective practices to prevent the formation of caries. It consists of filling in the grooves of the tooth (usually the 1st and 2nd permanent molars and hypoplastic teeth with developmental defects, which consist of underdeveloped teeth or their hard and soft tissues), often when they are deep and therefore more susceptible to decay. These areas are the pits and grooves of the tooth enamel. Bacteria and food particles often get caught on these teeth and cause the majority of tooth decay.
The application of dental sealant does not require any dental anaesthesia or a long, deep, expensive procedure.
After the tooth has been cleaned, the pit and fissure sealant (a tooth-coloured resin) is simply applied to the surface of the fissure, much like a layer of protective varnish. The tooth surface to be sealed is cleaned and then coated with an acid solution. This creates small roughnesses on the surface to be treated and allows the sealant to attach. The sealant is then hardened with the help of a light.
The photos below belong to the same patient who came to our practice just after recess without having brushed his teeth. In the first picture, the tooth with the brown spots is a permanent molar without a sealant. We can clearly see that the deep grooves and pits on the masticatory surface are filled with food, while in the second photo, since the pair has already been sealed with a flow product, there is no accumulation of food remains and the tooth remains completely protected on the masticatory surface.
At what age should the sealant be applied?
If pits and grooves are prone to decay, the ideal time to apply sealants is as soon as possible after the tooth erupts in the mouth. The first permanent molar appears around the age of 6 and the second around the age of 12.
This method can be performed on both deciduous and permanent teeth. However, the coating protects the tooth only on the chewing surface, as the interdental space, which is particularly susceptible to caries, cannot be protected by a sealant.
Management of dental trauma
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Dental trauma is extremely common, especially in children.
What is dental trauma?
Dental trauma occurs when a tooth is broken, displaced or pulled out as a result of an external intervention (e.g. a fall or a blow).
Injuries to baby teeth can cause permanent damage to permanent teeth that have not yet erupted, as the vulnerable germs of the permanent teeth are located under or behind the baby teeth. This is why it is important to go to a dentist immediately.
All dental injuries must be reported to the insurance company without delay.
brochuredentaltrauma.pdf (dentiste-biel-bienne.ch)
It is important to bear in mind that there is an intimate relationship between the apex of the injured baby tooth and the underlying permanent tooth germ. There are various types of oral trauma which vary greatly in severity, including loss of the dental organ.
Pediatric dental care in HYPNOSIS
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The particular technique developed by Dr. Erdogan is an approach to reduce fear and anxiety in patients who refuse to cooperate during dental treatment. Dr. Erdogan and her team navigate between the inner continents of the rich and enlightening infantile junction between the Self and the Ego from the very first encounter to keep the patient in his natural state in an osmosis of phantasmatization, of imagination.
This state of well being in the practice is the ultimate goal to be achieved, while making an alchemy with the long experiences of the team according to the real needs of the child’s mind to find security and confidence during dental care.
credits to theglitch.org
Treatments done
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Costs transparency
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In our practice, the value of the tariff point is fixed at 1 which corresponds to the value of the point retained for the calculation of the financial aid by the communes.
We take care of private patients, before, during and after school, accident cases covered by insurance and patients receiving supplementary benefits to the AI or social assistance, Red Cross, ORS, Caritas. Following the first consultation, an estimate is systematically made.
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