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Advise for Parents 'Bring Your Children for regular check ups'. |
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Hello again! Last week I made some attempts to provide
some useful information and advice about early oral care. It is quite crucial that children are given
correct training and advice. All necessary treatments can be completed
before they are 18 therefore causing minimal problems later on. Major
problems like braces need to be put in 13-16years for boys and 11-16 for
girls as they mature physically earlier than boys. Any attempts to
change the structural shape of the teeth later on can take a lot longer
and in most cases it isn’t quite as successful. It seems almost petty but majority of
people are actually quite afraid of visiting the dentist worrying that
when they do it'll be a case of injection and out comes the tooth or
they'll have to have fillings. This fear in fact causes more problems as
any problems can be controlled earlier on and so the patient ends up
worse off in the long run. Regular check ups can help maintain healthy
teeth and possibly keep them that way- healthy. Scared parents result in the fear being passed down to their
children. Children are not born with fear, it is learnt with experience
and what better way to learn to be scared than to watch a parent who
refuses to go to the dentist for a prolonged time and there on the very
first visit, booked at the last minute as the pain became intolerable,
has had to have an injection and had a tooth or two pulled out. Another
instance is when parents don't take children for regular check ups but
only take them in when the child is in pain thereby teaching them to
associate pain with the dentist. There you go fear learnt, so when your
child is due check up and is more than reluctant to go in fact there is
no convincing them, who do you blame? As you might be familiar or might even know me personally I am a practicing dentist and quite frankly there is nothing to fear, do not worry there aren’t any nastiest lurking in the dentists cupboards, not as far as I know anyway. |