Why are Children Afraid of Dental Work?
Journal Title: Modern Approaches in Dentistry and Oral Health Care - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
For most children, dentist’s offices always remind them a horrible environment. Going to the dentist, make children associate the ideas of a dental injection or tooth extraction in their imagination. To eliminate this fear, a series of strategies, methods and solutions is recommended. Several of these methods are innovative solutions which are applied in Apple Dental Clinic. Many factors may contribute in reducing the kid’s anxiety. Child’s preparation, parent’s fear, Calling dentist as a kind friend, creating a stress-free environment, early age dental examination, having a good explanations for child curiosity, reducing the stress during injecting, avoiding using certain words, dental instruments and rewarding the patient play significant factors in child’s fear. With using these models, fear reduction can be felt in children during the dental procedures. The strategies in this article have been well explained. Dental clinic is one of the places when children usually are entering it, they make excuses and fuss about it; or sometimes resist seriously. For many children going to the dentist, it might be a dark and frightening event in their life. However, with use of the different methods, an expert dentist can convert that place to a happy space for children’s curiosity to learn and gain experiences. To improve children’s oral health care, it is better to be examined twice a year at an early age. Many factors are involved. For examples, injection, dental setting and environment, dental materials, drill voices, being unprepared by parents, dental staff, socioeconomic factors, bad dental experiences, and so on, have a direct impact in the creation of children’s dental fear. As a general dentist who is working in the field of pediatric dentistry more than 20 years, these fear factors can be easily reduced or even in some cases completely can be eliminated by use of different methods, solutions or strategies. A numbers of important factors and their solutions are pointed below.
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Karimi M
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