While the gap between your front teeth, known as a diastema, may have been cute when you were little, it's quickly losing its charm and causing you to question whether you should get it fixed. Below is an overview of available treatment options for daistema, the postivies and negatives of treatment, and when seeking treatment may be in your best interests.
What Treatment Options are Available?
There are a variety of treatment options available and the treatment chosen by your dentist will depend on a number of factors, including the cause of the gap and the gap's severity.
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Toe walking is a gait abnormality where a child walks with too much weight on the balls of their feet and not enough on their heels or other parts of their feet. Here are four things parents need to know about it.
What are the signs of toe walking?
The main symptom of toe walking is very easy to identify. You will see your child walking and running on the balls of their feet.
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Cluster headaches are like migraine's ill-tempered cousin; they come usually without much warning and cause violent, constant pain in one side of your head. It can last from 15 (long-feeling) minutes to even upwards of 3 hours before going away, and these headaches can occur 8 times a day on the high end. The constant question with cluster headaches, however, is not what they are or how long they last -- it's how to get rid of the debilitating pain.
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Even if you can see clearly, you should still have your eyes examined regularly. An eye exam can be used to determine visual acuity. However, it may also help identify other health conditions that affect the eyes. Here are a few conditions that your optometrist may identify during your routine eye exam, even though you have not noticed a change in your vision:
Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy occurs because of changes in the retinal blood vessels caused by diabetes.
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As a parent, one of the most difficult things you can endure is watching your child go through a painful experience. If your child will soon be among the 5 million people who have their wisdom teeth extracted each year, then helping your child prepare for this procedure should be a top priority.
Here are three things you can do to ensure your child is ready for wisdom teeth removal surgery in the future.
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