About Our Hinsdale and Downers Grove Pediatric Dental Offices
Parent-Approved Expertise, Kid-Certified Experience
At Brush Pediatric Dentistry, we look forward to helping you care for your child’s precious smile. As the National Spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Dr. Mira Albert and her team of board-certified pediatric dentists, encourages parents to bring their children in after the arrival of their first tooth or by their first birthday. Then, as your children grow and develop, we hope to instill in them good dental habits and hygiene. We want Brush Pediatric Dentistry to be the dental home you know you can call for everything from routine visits to emergency care.
Our Mission Statement
Our mission is to cultivate a generation of children who are motivated to take pride in their oral health and are fearless about managing it. We aim to extinguish dental anxiety by creating an exciting, fun environment for children to be themselves. We do this by being positive, cracking jokes, and encouraging growth and learning for children and adults alike!
We will provide extraordinary care through a team of highly specialized, child-centered, compassionate, and energized individuals who are passionate about the specialty of pediatric dentistry. We recognize the uniqueness of each child, including those with special needs, and will treat children from infancy to adulthood as if they are our very own.
We’re innovators at heart and collaborate with parents on their children’s care in our state-of-the-art and pristine facility. Although we like to goof around and play, we also love to be there for our patients and parents, helping you feel well-cared for and truly understood by our team.
Our strength comes from working together as a staff and with the families who entrust their children to us. We listen to our patients’ concerns and place an emphasis on timeliness, mutual respect, integrity, and education that is both fun and easy to understand. We believe that each child has a different comfort level in the dental environment and will adapt to every patient with our out-of-the-box thinking. We vow to celebrate even small successes and wipe away tears with compassion and grace.
We will provide an exceptional dental home beginning by age one or before in accordance with American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry guidelines. This home will broaden the family dental experience in every way from the first phone call through the end of each appointment, and through a network of trusted specialists who we call upon when necessary.
This is the Brush Experience.
Make Brush Pediatric Dentistry Your Dental Home!
According to the AAPD, having a "dental home" means that your child's oral healthcare is delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family-centered way by a licensed pediatric dentist.
Dr. Mira Albert fully endorses the AAPD's concept of the dental home. She feels that establishing one at either our Hinsdale or Downers Grove Brush Pediatric Dentistry locations by your child's first birthday is a foundational step in shaping great lifelong attitudes about oral health.
By having a dental home for your child at a very young age, we can provide preventive care beginning with their first tooth and even be a place to go in case of emergencies.
We can also provide you with education relevant to your child's age, a place to turn to if you have an oral health question, and a place you can rely on for urgent care. Should your child indeed have an emergency, our office is where they will receive compassionate and appropriate care other than the hospital emergency room, which can become very stressful and costly. In addition, going to an emergency room may likely characterize your child's dental experience with pain and anxiety. Having a dental home early may reduce the number of treatments your child will need in the long run, and our team’s fun approach to care will have your child looking forward to coming back every six months!
Fun for Everyone!
Not only do we want each visit to be educational, but we also do our best to ensure your children actually have fun when they’re with us. We have a bright, colorful creative area for them to play in, and our waiting area is filled with games and movies for older kids—even parents! Please take our online office tour to see the cheery, kid-friendly atmosphere Dr. Albert and our phenomenal team has worked so hard to design for our young patients.
Dr. Albert has also developed a special language that she uses to communicate with children. She has a fun word to replace almost every word that might elicit fear or apprehension in your children, and we recommend you, as parents, do the same. Together, we can make visiting the dentist feel more like a trip to a theme park than an anxiety-inducing appointment!
We believe it is your child's right to understand exactly what is happening, but we want to always communicate this in an age-appropriate manner. Let's not use the word shot, talk about pulling teeth, or mention needles. We make it a habit of using words that convey the truth about what is happening while using pleasant, non-frightening language. Dr. Albert will also explain complex procedures one step at a time to keep children from becoming overwhelmed by too many concepts at once.
In the Media
Dr. Albert and her expertise have been featured all over the place, from magazines to local newspapers to TV news! We invite you to check out some of these articles and spotlights for yourself. At Brush Pediatric Dentistry, our team enjoys going the extra mile to inspire new reasons to smile, whether we're working inside the office or promoting good habits outside of it.