LOS ANGELES, SANTA MONICA AND BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA — March is National Nutrition Month and one LA orthodontist is using it as an opportunity to educate patients and parents on the important connection between orthodontic and nutritional health.
Dr. Atoosa Nikaeen, who owns a LA orthodontics practice, is using the recommended theme “Nutrition from the Ground Up” for the campaign, which is sponsored each year by the American Dietetic Association. (more…)
LOS ANGELES, BEVERLY HILLS AND SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA– Although they are not permanent, a child’s primary, or baby, teeth play an important role in development.
Healthy baby teeth are necessary for chewing food and holding a space in the jaw until the adult teeth erupt. That means that what goes on in a child’s mouth from birth to age 3 can play a significant role in the child’s adult teeth development, said Los Angeles and Santa Monica orthodontist Dr. Atoosa Nikaeen.
Baby Teeth At Birth
Except for a few isolated occasions, babies are born with their teeth embedded in the gums and not showing, Nikaeen, Santa Monica Orthodontics Specialist said. The front teeth begin to erupt by the time the infant is between four and eight months old. From six months on, children average about four new teeth every four months, and within a year or so, crowns have formed on all of a child’s baby teeth. (more…)
LOS ANGELES, SANTA MONICA AND BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA — California Orthodontist Dr. Atoosa Nikaeen will spend February educating patients and parents and speaking to school children about the importance of proper oral hygiene and diet.
Nikaeen and other employees at her California orthodontics practice do this every February in honor of National Children’s Dental Health Month.
“This is a topic we actually discuss with our patients and parents daily,” Nikaeen, California Orthodontist, said, “but February gives us an opportunity for community outreach, where we educate students in our local school systems on the topic and really drive home the point among our patients.” (more…)
