What parent wouldn’t want to protect their child from the potential distress and discomfort of dental treatment? Prevention is an important aspect of our work at Aquae Sulis Dental and we believe it can never start too early. That’s why we offer children an innovative treatment aimed at reducing the amount of dental work needed in adult life.

Fissure sealing is a technique where a resin is bonded into the fissures on the biting surface of the back teeth, thus reducing the amount of food able to get trapped there and so preventing decay. This is generally done at age 6-7 and again at age 11-12 when the first and second adult molars come into the mouth. Many adults today have fillings on their back teeth that could have been prevented if fissure sealants were around when they were children.