Our dentists here at City Dental can make sure your child receives adequate fluoride to protect their teeth. Ensuring your child brushes with fluoridated toothpaste is one of the most effective ways to make sure they receive enough, but additional fluoride treatments can also be helpful. If we feel your child will benefit, we may suggest using fluoride supplements in the form of gel, foam, or varnish.
Applying fluoride topically to teeth helps tooth enamel to harden, and treatment is minimally invasive and entirely painless. Professional strength gel or foam fluoride treatments can be given in mouth trays, where your child simply needs to wear the mouth tray for a few minutes while sitting in the dental chair. Fluoride varnish is highly effective and is painted onto clean tooth surfaces and left to penetrate for several hours or even overnight before teeth are brushed to remove the varnish. Professional fluoride applications can sometimes also be useful in reversing the very early signs of tooth decay and which appear as tiny lesions on tooth surfaces.
