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Breastfeeding VS Bottle-feeding !!! Their Role on Children's Teeth, Alignment and Sleep

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Breastfeeding vs Bottle Feeding Breastfeeding is not same as breast milk feeding!!! I was at the university in Boston couple of days before, when a young mother who was a professional was given a chance to present the case of her own child who is suffering from disordered sleep. The room was full of professionals and the GLOBES BEST doctors in the field of pediatric sleep. We all discussed about how to help the child and it came to a point about breastfeeding it was understood that the child was breastfeed till 2 , however was supplemented with bottles in between. But the child was not on formulas  Now there’s a big misunderstanding the industrialised world has about breastfeeding and breastmilk feeding. The subject is too deep and I have been wandering the world for a decade now to know the answer. Below I want to put it in simple words to make it understandable  Breastfeeding requires the tongue to go up especially the middle of the tongue. Bottlefeeding pushes...

Stroke And Dental Health

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Stroke And Dental Health Varying degrees of  periodontal disease   (gum disease) are associated with strokes. Mild gum disease, which causes inflammation of the gums, is called gingivitis, while more serious gum disease that causes the actual destruction of the gums is called periodontitis. Severe periodontitis can lead to tooth decay and eventually even tooth loss. All three of these types of gum disease are associated with a stroke — even the mildest form, which is gingivitis. Severe periodontal disease and tooth loss was a strong predictor of stroke, and even that people who had lost more teeth had usually experienced more strokes. Tooth loss was found to be a predictor of silent strokes. Silent strokes are strokes that people don’t know they had because silent strokes don’t cause obvious handicaps. However, over time, the build-up of silent strokes can cause disabling problems such as dementia. Dental problems such as gingivitis, periodontitis, and tooth l...

Difference between Pediatric dentists & Adult dentists:

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Difference between Pediatric dentists & Adult dentists: A dentist is also known as a dental surgeon specializes in dentistry, the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. So here we have two type of dentists: Pediatric dentists & Adult dentists. Pediatric Dentist:   Pediatric dentist are the ones who will take care the oral health problems of the infancy to early adulthood. Pediatric dentistry services like tongue & lip tie treatment, breath retraining treatment, Natural straight teeth treatment etc… In the above image the best Pediatric dentistry in India provides the infographic information’s on the “Importance of the baby teeth”. Adult Dentist: Adult dentist is the one who take cares of the oral health problems of teen aged, middle & geriatric aged persons. They provide the dentistry treatments like Implant dentistry, Geriatric dentistry , Cosmetic dentistry etc….

Myobrace & its treatment for children

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Myobrace: Myobrace is a method of orthodontic treatment that helps align teeth and jaws, working with or without other orthodontic treatment methods. Myobrace treatment for children: 3 out of every 4 children have crowded teeth and incorrectly developing jaws. These problems are evident from as early as 4 years of age. Even though the problems are evident, present orthodontic treatments require the child to grow with the problem until their early teen to start correction. The solution later provided are painful, requires brackets and wires stuck to teeth for couple of years and most often is accompanied by removal of healthy teeth. To add on there is a high chance of relapse of the malocclusion after the treatment or it requires wearing of retainers lifelong. Most of the time we are made to believe that genetics is the only cause for malocclusion/crooked teeth. Just like how other genetically transferred diseases like cardiac and diabetes express themselves only...