Arden Kids Dentist

Welcome to the Exhilarating World of Make A Smile Arden Arcade!

Providing you and your growing little one with extraordinary dental care is always our mission at Make a Smile Arden Arcade. We are passionate about teaching all our patients about the prevention of dental disease as they grow into an adult, which starts in our fun and interactive office environment designed just for kids. Our superb staff at Make a Smile Children’s dental is always delighted to see infants, children, and young adults in the Arden pediatric dentist office.

Your child will surely love our fun waiting room, designed with kids in mind! The fun doesn’t end at our waiting room; we provide movies in treatment rooms, video games, and lots of games and toys! The fun loving staff and dentists here at Make a Smile Arden Arcade go out of their way to work one on one with you and your child, fully explaining diagnoses and providing you with a strong sense of confidence in your child’s treatment options. Serving as a continual source of comfort for patients and their guardians, we encourage parents to join their children in treatment rooms if they wish to do so.

Make a Smile is welcoming to all cases: patients of a young age, children who require an extra-gentle hand with behavioral management, or children with special needs. Our offices are always up to date with the newest dentistry technology, entertainment, and special distraction techniques. We also offer a variety of sedation services, including in-office nitrous oxide, oral sedation, IV sedation, and hospital dentistry.

Your Child’s First Visit

You might come into our office more anxious than your child on his or her first visit, so try your best to stay relaxed! Our Make a Smile office is full of state-of-the-art technology and vastly different than the kids dental office you remember as a child. You will be delighted to see how comfortable you and your child will feel in our pediatric dentist office. A positive outlook on dentistry starts with your child’s first dental visit, and aids in successfully creating a life-long preventative plan for your child. Your child’s first dental visit should be scheduled as soon as their first tooth erupts or before their first birthday. At your first visit, you can expect:

• A thorough review of your child’s medical and dental history
• Helpful tips on keeping your child’s teeth clean after nursing or
  bottle-feeding
• Instruction on proper brushing techniques
• A comprehensive, non-invasive exam to check soft tissue and
  tooth eruption
• A visit to the toy chest!

You may join your child during treatment at any time; however, we also welcome you to enjoy movies, toys, and video games with your other children in our reception area. If you do plan on accompanying your child during treatment, try not to bring other children to that appointment, as space is limited in offices.

You should continue bringing in your child every six months following their first appointment for evaluations and professional cleanings.

Children with Special Health Care Needs

Make a Smile Arden Arcade strives to provide the best dental care for all children. Some patients often present dentists with unique challenges, such as those with significant medical, physical, or mental disabilities. At Make a Smile, however, our staff has received special training to be able to best treat special needs patients in our practice, resulting in the formation of lasting friendships with them and their caregivers. We assure a positive dental experience to all of our special needs patients, who are always attentively treated with gentleness and care in our Arden pediatric dentist office.

We make efforts to significantly reduce the risk of preventative dental problems in our special needs patients by teaching them and their caregivers preventative oral health techniques. If you have any questions regarding oral health or an appointment, please feel free to contact us at our Arden pediatric dentist. Our Arden pediatric dentist office also offers oral surgery and orthodontic services.