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Pit And Fissure Sealants Treatment Services

The biting surface of a tooth naturally has small holes (pits) and grooves (fissures). Much of the decay encountered by school-aged children occurs in these pits and fissures as they act as ideal sites for food lodgment thus harbouring bacteria. Sealants are an effective and painless way of protecting your child’s teeth from decay by providing a protective coating on the tooth surface. This forms a hard shield that keeps food and bacteria from getting into the tiny grooves in the teeth and causing decay. Sealants are only applied to the back teeth - the molars and premolars. Sealants are usually applied as soon as the first permanent teeth start to erupt. This is usually between 6 and 7 years of age. The rest are often sealed as soon as they appear which can be any time between 11 and 14 years of age. After a thorough examination, we can let you know which teeth should be sealed. Some teeth naturally have deep grooves which will need to be sealed; others have shallow ones which will not need sealing.