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Preventive · A first visit worth remembering

Start Them Unafraid.

The first appointment involves no treatment at all. It involves a chair that goes up and down, a mirror, and a child deciding this place is fine.

Book Paediatric Dentistry
Appointment
30 — 45 minutes
Course of treatment
Check-ups every 6 months
From
KD 35
Led by
Dr. Yasmin Al-Rashed

What it is

Paediatric Dentistry

Most adult dental anxiety is built before the age of ten. Paediatric dentistry, done properly, is the work of making sure it is not.

Dr. Al-Enezi's approach is deliberately slow at the start. A first visit is a tour: the chair, the light, the little mirror, counting teeth. No drill, no needle, nothing that has to be endured. Children who have been through that first visit come back for the second one willingly, and the clinical work that follows is straightforward.

She designed the paediatric room herself, including the ceiling detail above the chair — because that is what children look at.

Dr. Yasmin Al-Rashed

Prosthodontics & Smile Design

Founded Aurelia in 2008 after nine years in London, and still plans every full-mouth reconstruction the clinic takes on.

Why it is worth it

What you actually get.

01

Nothing happens on day one

The first appointment is introduction only. It costs a visit and saves years of anxiety.

02

Problems caught while they are small

Early decay can often be arrested without a drill. Six-monthly checks are what make that possible.

03

Bite development watched over time

Crowding, crossbites and habits are identified between ages six and nine, when interceptive treatment is simplest.

04

Built for sensitive children

Quiet corridors, no clinical smell, longer appointments and staff trained in behaviour guidance rather than persuasion.

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The process

What actually happens.

6 stages over Check-ups every 6 months.

  1. 01

    The introduction visit

    30 min

    Ride the chair, meet the mirror, count teeth. If your child is happy, we look properly. If not, we try again in three months.

  2. 02

    Examination & risk assessment

    30 min

    A full check with radiographs only where genuinely indicated, plus a diet and habit review with the parent.

  3. 03

    Prevention

    20 min

    Fluoride varnish and fissure sealants on the permanent molars as they arrive — the single most effective thing we can do.

  4. 04

    Treatment, if needed

    30 — 45 min

    Explained to the child in their own terms first. Inhalation sedation available for anyone who needs it.

  5. 05

    Growth monitoring

    From age 7

    Dr. Al-Enezi and Dr. Farouk review bite development together and flag anything that benefits from early intervention.

  6. 06

    Six-monthly recall

    30 min

    Familiar room, familiar faces. Continuity is most of what makes children comfortable.

Technology

The equipment behind it.

Inside the lab

Low-dose digital radiography

Paediatric-specific exposure settings, and radiographs taken only when the clinical decision depends on them.

Inhalation sedation

Nitrous oxide for anxious children — they remain awake and responsive, and it wears off within minutes.

Silver diamine fluoride

Arrests early decay in primary teeth without a drill, which for a young or anxious child changes everything.

Intraoral camera

Children understand what is happening far better when they can see their own tooth on the screen.

Afterwards

What the next fortnight looks like.

  1. After a check-up

    Nothing to manage. Avoid eating for thirty minutes after fluoride varnish.

  2. After a filling

    The main risk is a numb lip being bitten. Keep an eye on them for two hours and stick to soft food.

  3. After sedation

    Nitrous oxide clears within five minutes. Normal activity, normal school day.

  4. Every day

    Brushing supervised until around age eight — younger children cannot yet reach the back teeth reliably.

Questions

The things people ask.

Something not covered here? Ask us directly — we answer every enquiry within one working day.

By their first birthday, or within six months of the first tooth appearing. At that age the visit is mostly for the parent — diet, brushing, what to expect — but it starts the habit early.
We slow down. The first appointment has no treatment in it at all, and if your child is not ready even for an examination, we stop there and book another introduction. Nothing is achieved by pushing through a frightened child.
It depends on the tooth and how long it has left. A molar that is due to be present for another six years absolutely does — infection in a primary tooth affects the permanent one developing beneath it. A tooth about to be lost may simply be monitored.
Digital paediatric radiographs use a very small dose, and we take them only when the treatment decision depends on the result. For most children that is one set of bitewings every one to two years.
An orthodontic assessment around age seven is worth having, not because treatment usually starts then, but because a small number of problems are much easier to correct while the jaws are still growing.

Related treatments

Gum Treatment

Gum Treatment

The foundation everything else sits on

Book Paediatric Dentistry

A first visit worth remembering.

Care designed around how children actually experience a clinic, led by a consultant who built the room they sit in.

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