By Pilar Echeverri | Dental treatment
Dental treatment is essential in the rehabilitation of newborn children with cleft lip and palate. A good smile is the best way of showing wellness and a healthy life. We work to give them a perfect oral health. Keeping all their teeth and gums healthy and free of decays is fundamental for all the upcoming orthopedic and orthodontic treatments. Starting at five, when they grow all of their teeth, we start a strong intervention with mouth and face appliances in order to help the correct development of the face that has been conditioned from all of the previous surgeries.
This preparation of the dental arches allows the placement of the alveolar bone grafts, this surgery is fundamental so the teeth can have the support that is needed and don't get lost.
Later on when the growth is completed, treatment is changed for corrective orthodontics which helps the unaligned teeth to get back in place and finish the whole treatment with a big and beautiful smile as a result.
In some cases this orthodontics lead to a last surgery in which we obtain a facial harmony and the occlusion they didn't have before.
All of the above is the reason why kids at Fisulab get specialized Dental treatment since they grow their first teeth until they finish their development.
In Fisulab, we treat 150 children monthly in dentistry.
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