Preventive/Restorative Dentistry
Your child deserves to grow up with a beautiful, healthy smile. Help your child maintain their smile with regular in-office oral health care, preventing most conditions that negatively affect their smile. Let our team answer any questions you may have regarding your child’s dental hygiene. Know that we will provide your child with the most sophisticated preventative dentistry.
Trust Dr.’s Lockwood and Meeske to take care of your child’s advanced restorative dentistry needs. Don’t let injury or decay stand in the way of your child’s beautiful smile. Let restorative dentistry renew your child’s self confidence and help prevent bigger, more painful, and costly repairs in the future.
Fillings
When the decay is removed from a tooth, it is replaced with “filling” material. Fillings play an important role in maintaining your child’s health. Unfilled cavities never go away and get bigger with time. We offer two options for filling your child’s cavities at Pediatric Dental Specialists; Amalgam (silver) filings or Tooth-Colored fillings. With tooth-colored fillings, your child can now benefit from having fillings to flawlessly match their existing teeth, giving them a brilliant, whiter smile!
Pulp Therapy
Damage to your tooth’s inner nerve tissue sometimes requires treatment of the pulp. Pulp Therapy involves removing the soft tissue within the tooth – the pulp – when it has become infected and inflamed. Dr.’s Lockwood and Meeske gently remove the infected tissue out of the root canals of the tooth and fills the void with an inert material. The procedure is completed with the placement of a filling, or, in some cases, a crown. Because your child’s comfort is our priority, our team offers various levels of anesthesia and sedation therapy to keep them relaxed.
Tooth Extraction
Keeping your child’s teeth is the best and preferred solution. In the instance that a tooth has too much damage to be repaired, it may be recommended to extract the tooth. Postponing or forgoing a recommended tooth extraction may lead to complications, pain, and additional costs. To ensure your child is comfortable throughout their extraction, Dr.’s Lockwood and Meeske offer many methods of anesthesia and sedation. Feel confident that your child will be comfortable and relaxed as their extraction is done, in office, by a dental team they are familiar with.
Under Armor Mouthpiece
Unlock your maximum power and potential. Whether you need protection in contact sports or simply want to improve your athletic performance, Under Armour Performance Mouthwear™ with ArmourBite™ Technology gives you a competitive edge. Your edge is inside of you but can be blocked by one of the human body’s instinctive reflex systems – teeth-clenching. Safe, custom-built UA Performance Mouthwear, helps you capitalize on innovation that makes you stronger, faster and better by relaxing your jaw and bite. Talk with your dentist to decide which model is right for you, and then experience the results – increased strength, heightened endurance, faster reaction time, reduced athletic stress and decreased impact. Under Armour Performance Mouthwear is proven effective in all sports whether full contact like football and hockey, limited contact including soccer and softball, or non-contact like swimming and tennis. Unclench your jaw and unleash your inner athlete.
Crown
A crown may be needed if your child’s tooth is destroyed to a degree that there is little of the tooth remaining or if your child is at high risk for future tooth decay. This type of damage can be caused by decay, trauma, or poor development. Crowns, also known as caps, slide over teeth to hide misshaping, misalignment, cracks, discoloration, or other imperfections. Crowns will help your child to chew food properly, allow normal speech development, and assist with guiding other teeth into position.
Partial Dentures
A partial denture is sometimes needed if a child's teeth need to be pulled due to an injury or tooth decay. A partial denture is created to replace those teeth and prevent the existing teeth from moving. The denture is removable and designed to fit comfortably and blend in with any remaining teeth. This type of denture is made from a synthetic material that is supported with a lightweight metal. It mimics their gum tissue and teeth to create a natural looking smile while still remaining functional. Help your child’s self esteem and give them the natural, beautiful smile they deserve.