a dentist who treats children
an expert in childrens dentistry
A dental specialist who limits his/her practice to the treatment of children. Also called a pediatric dentist.
A dentist who specializes in and limits his or her practice to the comprehensive treatment of children.
is a pediatric dentist. They focus their dentistry to treating the younger patients. They will usually treat children from as little as 1 or 2 to early adulthood. They can perform all aspects of dentistry on this crowd. They can detect early on if there are problems with decayed, missing, crowded or malpositioned teeth and correct them as well as spot signs of child abuse. They have usually 2 or more years of continuing education after graduating dental school, and most limit their practice to only pedodontics.
dentist who specializes in pedodontics, or dentistry for children
A dentist who specializes in the treatment of children's teeth.