The nature of your child’s first visit at Penn Dental Medicine will depend upon their age. For very young children, this initial visit will help them to get comfortable with the idea of visiting the dentist, and they can sit on their parent’s lap during the evaluation.

After evaluating your child’s oral health, a program of home care for your child will be designed. This will include brushing and flossing recommendations, diet counseling, fluoride application, and frequency of dental visits.

These procedures are performed by pediatric dental residents and predoctoral students. Pediatric dental residents are dentists who are receiving training for become pediatric dentists. All of our predoctoral students and pediatric dental residents work under the supervision of trained pediatric dentists to ensure the highest quality of care.

Saint Louis Orthodontist Medicine will care for your children and provide age-appropriate treatments as they grow. They will be treated within our pediatric dentistry program up through adolescence; then, they will be transitioned into the General Dentistry area of our clinic to continue their care.

Our pediatric dentistry residents are trained and equipped to provide all procedures and necessary care for our young patients.
These may include:

For the very young patients and patients with anxiety or special health care needs, we offer the option of treatment under sedation (at Saint Louis Orthodontist Medicine or Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) or under general anesthesia at CHOP).