The Role of Pediatric Dentistry in a Child's Developement

Children represent the future and ensuring their physical social emotional language and cognitive development should be the priority. A child's oral health can highly affect their overall health because the mouth is the gateway to a person's overall health. The attitude towards dental care begins taking shape in early childhood and a pediatric dentist can help ensure those attitudes are pleasant ones. Also the discolored damaged or missing teeth may hurt children's self-esteem and social development making them afraid to smile or subjecting them to teasing. Oral health is related to health-related quality of life and a pediatric dentist plays an important role in overall development of a child.