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Tips, guides, and news about pediatric dentistry to help care for your children's smiles.

👶Tongue ties and breastfeeding🦷First visit and prevention✨Orthodontics and development🌙Sleep and airway🤍No fear and sedation🚨Emergencies
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Tongue ties, breastfeeding and ankyloglossia

When yes, when no, and how we decide. The full series on frenectomy in babies and children.

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Frenectomy in Babies: When Is It Necessary?
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Frenectomy in Babies: When Is It Necessary?

A guide to frenectomy in babies: what tongue and lip ties are, how they affect breastfeeding, and why laser is the best treatment option.

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First visit and prevention

How to start your child's relationship with the dentist on the right foot, and how to avoid cavities before they appear.

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First Dental Visit: Guide for Parents
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First Dental Visit: Guide for Parents

Everything you need to know about your child's first trip to the dentist. When to go, what to expect, and how to prepare for a positive experience.

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Orthodontics and dental development

When to start, what interceptive orthodontics is, and how to use the child's growth windows.

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Pediatric Orthodontics: When to Start?
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Pediatric Orthodontics: When to Start?

Guide to children's orthodontics and interceptive treatment. When to see an orthodontist, warning signs, and types of appliances for kids.

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Sleep, breathing and pediatric bruxism

How bruxism, mouth breathing and sleep quality connect, and what pediatric dentistry can see.

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Childhood Bruxism and Sleep: The Pediatric Dentist's Role
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Childhood Bruxism and Sleep: The Pediatric Dentist's Role

Bruxism in children is rarely just a dental issue. It connects to sleep, the airway, and the nervous system. A pediatric dentist trained in sleep medicine.

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Pediatric dentist without fear: how we handle it at Bites

Pediatric dental clinic for children without fear in Santiago. Strategies for the anxious child and when we use conscious sedation.

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Conscious sedation with nitrous oxide in children
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Conscious sedation with nitrous oxide in children

What nitrous oxide actually is in pediatric dentistry, when I use it, when I don't, and what happens during the appointment. An honest guide for parents.

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Dental emergencies and trauma

What to do in the first minutes when your child injures a tooth. The difference between saving and losing the tooth.

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My Child Hit a Tooth: Emergency Guide
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My Child Hit a Tooth: Emergency Guide

What to do if your child suffers dental trauma. Step-by-step emergency guide from a pediatric dentist covering knocked-out, broken, and displaced teeth.