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Everyone wants what is best for their child.  Oral health and a great smile are no exceptions.  To ensure great oral health for your child, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recommends a first dental check up when the first tooth erupts, or no later than his or her first birthday.  This will help to provide the best preventative oral care possible for a healthy smile.

Fast forward a few years in your child's life, you may be asking yourself when is the right time for my child to see an orthodontist?  The American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) recommends that all children be screened by an AAO orthodontist by age 7. By this time, your child has enough permanent teeth that an orthodontist can evaluate before any future problems occur.

Some of these potential problems may seem obvious, such as misaligned teeth or spacing issues.  However, a trained orthodontist can better evaluate other potential problems with your child's teeth, bite, growth, among other issues.  Visiting an orthodontist by age 7 is a solution to these issues that will benefit your child's growth and development through life, setting them up for success!

When visiting Perennial Smiles, you will be evaluated by Dr. Stephanie Morgan.  She is a highly trained orthodontic specialist who will evaluate your child so they can be set up to showcase their best smile.  With your child's initial exam, Dr. Morgan will be able to assess items such as:

• Underbites/overbites
• Crossbites
• Open bites/deep bites
• Crowding
• Spacing
• Extra or missing teeth
• Jaw issues and growth
• Oral habits, such as thumb sucking
• Tooth eruption

Not all early visits for your child will result in orthodontic treatment.  There may be no need at the time for any intervention and your child may be observed periodically by Dr. Morgan as their jaws and face continue to grow and develop.  If a problem is found to exist that will benefit from early treatment, Perennial Smiles is the right place to get started!

While seeing an orthodontist by age 7 is great for kids, there is actually no age limit in achieving that spectacular smile for yourself!  At Perennial Smiles, we have patients of all ages, even in their 70s and 80s!  It is never too late to attain the smile you've always wanted!

You do not need to wait for a dentist referral to see an orthodontist.  Call today to schedule a Free Consultation with Dr. Morgan at Perennial Smiles to see how you or your child may benefit from orthodontic treatment to achieve your best smiles!

Over the weekend, the North Canton Chamber put on their annual Chocolate Walk on Main Street in North Canton. This is such a fun community event to support all the local businesses in the area!  The chamber sells 250 tickets each year for participants, and each participating business is to pass out chocolate!  It seems like trick-or-treat for adults!  Businesses can pass out anything made with chocolate, cocoa powder, white chocolate, chocolate flavoring, or in the shape of chocolate!

This was our third year participating in this event.  Due to Covid restrictions, it was a little different with many of the participating businesses setting up outside under canopy tents.  It was actually pretty fun and relaxing because it was such a nice day outside!  All the participants did a great job in social distancing and wearing face masks as they came up to the businesses as well, so the whole event felt very safe.

This year, our office decided to support another local business whose locations are not on Main Street to help get their name out in the community even more.  We teamed with Nom Nom Popcorn and passed out the "trifecta" of chocolate, with options of white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate flavored popcorn!  Overall, the event went very well and we received a lot of positive feedback!

As a reminder, anyone with braces should only eat popcorn that is fully popped.  It is also a great idea to thoroughly brush and floss your teeth after eating the popcorn in order to promote proper dental hygiene! :)  We had a great time at this event and look forward to participating in the future!

With the launch of our new website,we thought it might be fun to incorporate a blog to keep everyone updated of certain information and events happening in the practice and community, announcements, or other orthodontic information.  With this said, I wanted to write a little post about some great news that happened recently.

With the roller coaster of a ride that 2020 has been so far with lock-downs and Covid-19 pandemic that has reshaped the way we practice, we are excited to announce some great news!  The Canton Repository annual Best of the Best contest for 2020 has recently come to a close.  We feel greatly honored and humbled to be voted "Best Orthodontist" for a 5th year in a row!  It means so much to us to be part of this community and have such great support all around.  We truly appreciate each and every one of you and want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Dr. Morgan and our fantastic team will continue to uphold our practice standards to keep serving this great community.  We love being here to bring out the best in people and literally put smiles on their faces.  When you love what you do, you never really have to work.

Thank you for taking the time to visit our blog. Please check back often for updates on fun and exciting events happening at our office, important and interesting information about orthodontics and the dental industry, and the latest news about our practice.

Feel free to leave a comment or question for our doctors and staff - we hope this will be a valuable resource for our patients, their families, and friends!