Ashburn Children’s Dentistry
Pediatric Dentistry in Ashburn, VA

This state of the art office is designed around keeping your child’s smile growing healthy. They use leading edge techniques and equipment to provide the highest quality dental care for your kids. It is critical to grow and maintain healthy baby teeth for eating, speaking and proper growth and development of adult teeth. Our office has many amenities to make your child more comfortable such as a tree house, movie amphitheatre, pillows and blankets, video games, and personal movies during treatments. For our anxious patients we have "laughing gas" available to help relax them during treatment. We even have an anesthesiologist for really fearful patients and those who require extensive work under IV sedation. 

Regular Exams

American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry suggests regular dental examinations every 6 months, and it is suggested you bring in your child by their first birthday for their first exam and cleaning. Our goal is to help your child grow into an adult who routinely and comfortably seeks dental care. Our friendly staff is trained to work with apprehensive children, and is able to make a trip to the dentist a fun and inviting experience.  It is important to bring your child in for regular exams as our goal is to prevent disease and dental problems before they begin. We aim to instill the importance of dental hygiene in your child from their first exam. Our office offers laser dentistry.

Infant Frenectomy

A frenum (also called frenulum) is a band of tissue that connects or holds down a part of the body such as the tongue, lip, or cheeks. The band of tissue connecting the tongue to the floor of the mouth is called the lingual frenum, while the band connecting the lip to the gum in front of the teeth is called the labial frenum. Occasionally a frenum might be exceptionally short, thick, or tight, or may extend too far down along the tongue or the gum. When a frenum is positioned in such a way as to interfere with the normal alignment of teeth, speech or constricts the movement of the tongue or lips, it can be removed with a very simple surgery called a frenectomy.

Typically, this procedure is performed with a scalpel and sutures in a hospital setting. However, when done with a laser, the surgery tends to cause very little bleeding, does not require sutures, and often results in very little discomfort after the procedure. The water laser that we use at our office eliminates the needs for IV sedation or general anesthesia in a hospital setting. We often times perform this procedure on newborns who are having difficulty nursing due to a "tight" frenum, which prohibits their lips from flanging and maintaining a proper latch. Newborns also may have a "tight" frenum under the tongue prohibiting them from being able to transfer milk from the breast to swallow. The newborns we treat can nurse immediately and moms notice a very significant difference both in the quantity that the newborn consumes as well as their personal comfort while nursing.