"Does my child need a pediatric dental specialist?"
I'm not going to answer this yes or no! But I will explain some differences between a trained pediatric dentist and your "average" general or family dentist. If I had, lets say, a 6 year old with a cavity or two, or I was concerned with crowding of teeth and possible orthodontics, and, my child had a fear of medical personnel from past unpleasant experiences, what would I do? Here are some things to think about: 1) Will your dentist understand young children, their likes,
"At what age will you stop seeing my child?"
At some point when our patients reach high school age, parents will usually ask me at what age do I stop seeing them. It's usually assumed that a pediatric dentist only sees kids and so at some particular age we will stop and transfer them to a family or general dentist. I will always tell parents that there is no age we stop. We leave it up to them. Most of our patients will stop coming to us sometime during their college years as they move out of their home and maybe eve