Dental Sealants

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As your Brantford dentist, we recommend dental sealants to help coat decaying grooves and fissures on your teeth.

Pit and fissure sealants are a safe and effective way to prevent dental caries and should be considered as part of an overall caries-preventive strategy that includes promotion of healthy eating and twice daily brushing and flossing. The many grooves, pits and fissures on the chewing surfaces of young teeth are often hard for brush bristles to reach and therefore cannot be cleaned properly. Dental sealants help coat these decaying grooves and fissures to stop your child’s teeth from further damage.

What Are The Benefits Of Sealants?

Resin-based fissure sealants are effective at preventing caries on pit and fissure surfaces in children and adolescents. Sealants are slippery and make it harder for plaque that causes decay to stick in the pits and grooves of molars. Because sealants can prevent more than 80% of dental decay in children, they reduce the need for fillings and other more expensive treatment. Sealants are an economical preventive measure to keep teeth healthy for years.

Learn about pit-and-fissure sealants.