Case

A 3-year-old child patient who was referred to the dentist after the treatment of his aching tooth was left incomplete. Often, when parents have complaints about their children's teeth, they demand that they be resolved first, but there are some problems with this expectation.
The painful tooth is not in a position to heal when a filling is pressed on it, as is often imagined, and even if a filling is pressed on it, the tooth may become more painful and infected. As adults imagine, children cannot open their mouths and accept many stimuli in terms of vibration, sound, taste and smell at the same time during long complex dental treatments. Their attention span and pain tolerance make harmonious cooperation between the dentist and the child difficult in such procedures. As imagined, dental anesthesia does not remove all sensation; only the pain disappears, other stimuli remain, and even the feeling of numbness may be extremely strange in a young child who has no dental treatment experience.
In this patient, root canal treatment and a stainless steel crown were applied to the lower molar whose treatment was incomplete. Direct composite fillings were placed on the front teeth, and stainless steel crowns were placed on teeth with caries on more than one surface.