Pit and fissure sealant can protect your child teeth

Paediatric Dentistry

Pit and fissure sealant can protect your child teeth

  • A lot of people ask how we can prevent tooth decay.

  • Good oral hygiene including brushing and flossing can prevent tooth decay.

  • In young children they don’t have the ability to brush their teeth properly so they need a preventive treatment at a dental clinic called pits and fissures sealant.

  • Pits and fissures sealant is an easy and painless technique ,using a clear material that applied to the top surface of the tooth where dental hygiene is more challenging because of a small groves that accumulate food and causing decay .

  • Pits and fissures sealant technique can be applied within few minutes:

 

1-Tooth isolation.

2-cleaning then drying the tooth surface.

3-application of the material then light curing.

  • Pits and fissures sealant applied on the back teeth as soon as they erupted by age six.