Children are born free of dental disease, yet by adulthood 95% of the population has active gum disease and most people have experienced some tooth decay and even tooth loss.

It is our belief that disease can be prevented with preventive dentistry. Our aim is to provide your child with the best dental care available to secure their dental health. We ask parents to register their children from birth so that we can see them twice a year on the NHS to help them grow up free from dental disease.

Children's Dental Treatments

However, if your child does need treatment, we can offer them alternatives not generally available on the NHS, such as mercury-free white fillings. To the children of members of our Ball Tree Dental Care Plan we can offer these alternatives on the same terms as their parents.

Child Tooth Development

You child's teeth have already started to form when they are born, and normally appear through the gum from around 6 months old - most often from the front of the mouth first. But please don't worry if your baby's teeth erupt after this time, it is quite normal to expect teeth to take another couple of months to come through




 

When teeth erupt they may sometimes appear to be out of position or a bit crooked. This is fairly common and in most cases, with baby teeth, it corrects itself within months of their full eruption. If your child has a thumb (or other digit), dummy or blanket sucking habit then this can lead to some teeth remaining out of position. Your dentist can easily confirm this for you. In many cases when the habit ceases then the teeth may move to their correct position.