Stephen P Girdlestone, DDS

Specialties

What The Practice Offers

The Practice is state of the art children’s facility that encompasses a variety of disciplines, techniques, procedures and skills that are adapted to the special needs of infants, children and teenagers.

The Primary Focus

Pediatric Dentistry is an age-​defined specialty that provides both primary and comprehensive prevention and therapeutical healthcare for infants and children through adolescence.

Pediatric Dental Specialty

A specialist in Pediatric Dentistry is one who has completed a general college education, earned a doctoral degree in dentistry, and has completed two or more years at an advanced residency program. By being an age specific specialty, the additional educational training provides the dentist with necessary didactic background and clinical experiences. These skills quality the specialist as being uniquely trained to care for the needs of children throughout their ever changing stages of development and to treating condition s and diseases unique to growing individuals.