How important is dental fluoride treatment to your kids?

1. Protects the tooth’s enamel
2. Puts minerals back in the teeth
3. Fights tooth decay and cavities
4. Serves as a natural preventative

Kids like to consume desserts, sweet foods and drinks, and other sugary and flavorful foods that can cause tooth decay and affect their oral health. So, dental health can be a big concern for many parents. This can be a big challenge to preserve, especially if your child loves sweets!

Luckily, there’s a helpful way of keeping your kid’s oral health in good condition — and it’s called fluoride treatment. Every kid deserves a cavity-free and healthy smile, so we’ve prepared this blog as a guide for parents to learn more about the importance of dental fluoride treatment to your kids. Continue reading!

What Is Fluoride?

Fluoride is something we use to help strengthen your teeth to prevent tooth decay. It’s even strong enough to reverse the damage and effects of tooth decay.

Fluoride is a natural mineral that’s used in a wide variety of oral treatments and products — including toothpaste and mouthwash! 

Fluoride is applied through this treatment to strengthen teeth, repair enamel, and fight against the causes of tooth decay. 

How Does Fluoride Treatment Work?

The procedure for fluoride treatment starts with a dentist applying a topical fluoride solution to your kid’s top and sides of each tooth with a small brush. 

Here at Elevate Dental, we use fluoride varnish, which is a highly concentrated form of fluoride. We apply it to your teeth’s surface to help avoid tooth decay, slow it down, or prevent it from getting too severe. 

This fluoride varnish will quickly harden once it touches saliva. Applying it is also completely painless, so your child will not feel too discomforted during the procedure. We advise parents to hold their child in their lap while facing (knee-to-knee) the dentist applying the varnish to help them feel more comfortable.

Keep in mind that undergoing a fluoride treatment, while effective, can’t prevent cavities 100% of the time. We advise that you help your children develop the habit of brushing and flossing your kid’s teeth regularly, reduce the number of sweets they eat, and bring them to regular dentist’s checkups to protect their oral health. 

Why is Fluoride Treatment Important To Your Kids?

As a parent, you should teach your kids the importance of taking care of their teeth and gums by introducing them to the benefits of fluoride treatment, which are:

Protects The Tooth’s Enamel

When your kids drink liquids with a high amount of acid, it can cause a break down of the enamel on their teeth. When they deteriorate, their teeth become more sensitive to other normal activities like sipping warm, hot, or cold drinks. Drinking flavored juices also destroys the enamel because of the acid in their ingredients. 

A fluoride treatment will help to protect your kid’s tooth’s enamel from acids and bacteria that bring harm to their teeth, while also lessening the sensitivity of their teeth.

Puts Minerals Back In The Teeth

Acid does numerous horrors to the teeth aside from destroying the enamel. It also damages the minerals that make up your teeth which breaks the structure of your teeth. The minerals that our teeth need are phosphorus and calcium so the loss of these minerals can cause some serious consequences.

Fortunately, a fluoride treatment fights the damage by adding these vital minerals back (in a process called remineralization) into your teeth. This restores and strengthens damaged teeth.

Fights Tooth Decay And Cavities

There are bacteria in everyone’s mouth when we consume sugar- or starch-rich foods. These foods permit the bacteria to emit an acid that destroys the enamel. This is extremely harmful to your teeth when left untreated. Fortunately, the fluoride treatment helps to combat tooth decay and cavities for healthier and stronger teeth!

When your kid has had fluoride treatment, and regularly uses toothpaste at home, they’re less likely to experience the aching symptoms of cavities or tooth decay. 

With this in mind, you should introduce them to fluoride treatments on top of other dental care tips to help them develop good oral care habits! 

Serves As A Natural Preventative

A fluoride treatment is made of fluoride, a natural mineral that our teeth need. As such, it’s a completely healthy and safe treatment for your children to have done! 

This treatment serves as a natural preventative to many oral problems, especially tooth decay and cavities. It is also an effective way to naturally restore your damaged teeth and reduce the risk of oral problems in the future.

Key Takeaway

Our children are at risk of tooth decay and cavities. But now that you know the importance of dental fluoride treatment to your kids, and what this treatment can do for them, then you might be considering one for their next dental checkup.

If you’re looking for a team of skilled and friendly pediatric dentists that can fully take care of your child’s dental concerns, you can book an appointment here at Elevate Dental. You can also visit our branches at Greenhills and Bonifacio Global City.