The specialist in pediatric dentistry is not only responsible for the treatment of a healthy patient but also for those patients who have a pathology. In them it requires not only to have knowledge at the dental level but also to have medical knowledge to be able to address the treatments in these children and even in these types of patients with special needs.
In these cases, prevention is very important, so it is recommended that from the first years of life and even at the prenatal level, recommendations and guidelines be given to these parents so that their children do not suffer pathologies at the oral level.
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How is the approach of the patient with special needs in pediatric dentistry?
Children because of their age since they do not have the development completed many times do not collaborate. That is why the pediatric dentist knows advanced techniques for the treatment of these children, for example, at the level of sedation or general anesthesia, always under the supervision of an anesthesiologist.
Nowadays, thanks to the great advances that pediatric dentistry has, it does not have to be so feared so that the child does not develop any kind of pain. For this reason, prevention is essential since through it we will always prevent the problem from reaching that point.
What is the most frequent pathology in patients with special needs?
The most frequent complication is usually caries, which is the most common disease in children. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) the 60-90% of school children have this type of pathology that, in addition, increases if the patient has difficulty in performing the brushing.
