Dental Clinic or Kindergarten ....Which is a more Panic Room for your Child? In my case, it was the former one until I tracked out few solutions. Dental phobia is quite common among children. And in some cases, it maintains its presence throughout life. Adults having a fear of dentists are treated with mild dental sedation. If you start to encourage your child about dentistry at an early age I am sure he will overcome the phobia in his teens or in later years. So, today I will advise how can you avoid making it go worse with few interesting approach.
1. Start early - A regular oral health check up is appreciated when your child is around 6-8 months. It is the time when the first tooth peeps in. This can be a real friendly interaction between
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Play game of pretending visit - You, your husband or your elder child can pretend to play with your little one. Just be the doctor and make him the patient. Just show the teeth counting like 1, 2, 3 ... or A, B, C ... Don 't add any noise or instrument. Next just ask your child to brush properly and gift him a Toothbrush. This will encourage him and boost his energy for a dental check-up.
5. Stop to Relate - Never take your child for any dental check up of yours to give them an idea of the same. You may turn out to have dentophobia and end up with mild dental sedation. Thi can give your child the worst ever experience and he too will develop the fear of dentistry. It is also better to avoid telling stories and your personal experience of the root canal, dental implant etc.
6. Tantrum game
It is very normal for your child to show tantrum when it comes to experience any examination by a stranger. You must not indulge his whine and wiggle. Let the dental care professionals help him. You can just hold his hands to make him sure that you are with
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No bribery, PLEASE!! It is very common for parents to promise a box of chocolate or color pens to behave well and not create any fuss during their dental treatment. But it never helps, as it only boost their apprehension. Rather you can praise your child for good behavior and strong attitude after he is done with his tooth uprooting.
8. Be strict
Make it very clear that your child has no other option than to visit a dentist. It is just like an everyday routine for him. You can inform him of the importance of strong teeth, healthy gum and oral health
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Dental hygiene is amongst many professions that come with an increased risk of injury. In fact, evidence suggests that the incidence of dental professionals acquiring musculoskeletal disorders is reaching 96%. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), these complications are a result of “repetitive motion or awkward posture for more than 2 hours at a time, unassisted frequent manual handling (eg, scaling an area using the same strokes), and unassisted forced manual handling (eg, heavy calculus removal using hand-activated instruments)”. These complications not only affect the quality of life for the
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The first thing we assess when seeing patients is a visual inspection, observe gait, mouth posture and other physical characteristics patients reveal. One patient I provided care for had a history of schizophrenia and psychiatric care. Upon bringing him to my operatory I noticed he was very apprehensive and walked very slow to postpone treatment as long as he could. When he sat down in my chair I chatted with him before getting started to relieve some anxiety he had, throughout the appointment the patient was short and agitated. When he seemed agitated I would ask him about things he liked to do and he would return to a happy state before I would continue with any procedures. We made it through the appointment and he was in good spirits and said he was excited to come back and see me for his next cleaning. This was an awesome learning experience that tested my patients and ability to adapt to each patient. It helped me develop skills needed to ease dental anxiety and provide enjoyable care for patients that are apprehensive about dental
Dentistry is a health science that includes the study and application of measures designed to prevent damage of the oral structures and the use of clinical procedures that that restore the normal masticatory function of teeth and esthetics, correction of speech resulting from loss of natural teeth, satisfaction and comfort of the patient, preservation of alveolar bone and tempromandibular joints. Other goals are to relief pain, treatment of a disease and maintaining the restoration for a long time in the denture without distortion or fracture.
Good oral hygiene is an essential part of nursing care and if left undone can lead to larger problems such as increased risk for pneumonia, tooth loss, mucosal lesions, and increased complications of comorbidities (Delgado, 2016). There needs to be a revision to the current oral care policy because oral hygiene is not being performed on the residents. This policy will benefit the patients and the facility. Patients will benefit from better oral hygiene thus reducing the risk of overall infection. The facility will benefit by saving money related unnecessary spending on items such as antibiotics and intravenous (IV) supplies.
Moreover, dentists have to cater to the fears of the public. In today’s society many people have had bad experiences or have heard horror stories about dentists, so they are generally hesitant to get work done on their teeth. In many cases, people are consumed by so much fear at the dentist’s office that the dentist will have to administer an anesthetic and try to calm the patient’s fears.
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Children with disabilities or other health impairments require assistance of adults to live to their fullest potential. Although childhood caries is not a typical disease when considering disabling chronic illnesses, it is becoming a global health crisis that affects children in many ways. According to the United States Surgeon General’s report from the US Department of Health and Human Services (2000), dental caries is stated to be the “most common chronic childhood disease of children aged 5 to 17 years and is five times more common than asthma and seven times more common than hay fever.” Childhood caries can severely affect a child’s quality of life in the areas of overall development, family relationships, community relationships, and educational challenges; the collaboration of parents and teachers is essential in treating and preventing childhood caries, not only in the United States, but also around the world.
Certain individuals avoid the dentist at all costs, choosing to live with cavities, gum disease and more, as they fear the chair more than anything. Others put off visiting a dental practitioner until the pain has become so overwhelming they can no longer live with it. This phobia is more common than many people realize, and it is shown in oral health statistics. This doesn't need to be the case, however, thanks to sedation dentistry. Dentists use sedation for those dentists who experience anxiety, whether they are simply having a cavity filled or need to have their teeth cleaned.
During the physical, the physician is not checking for oral cancer and the hygienist sees the patient at least twice a year. Not all exams are used to check for cancer, but you can also check for tonsil stones or salivary stones. One child patient had enlarged tonsils and she told the parent to come look. The parent was surprised and informed Annette that the child had strep throat often, with this extra information Annette suggested seeing the child’s primary care physician and possibly having the child’s tonsils removed. Annette said that if a patient has had a biopsy for possible oral cancer, especially smokers or tobacco consumers, she teaches them to do self-exams at home and informs them to do them once a month.
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Another preventive way to help children build stronger teeth is water fluoridation prevents 2/3rd of children from them not getting cavities. (Evans par. 6) Fluoridation benefits children and let alone fifty percent of the dental bills were cut in price. (Evans par.6) The future is looking bright for the children getting better dental and oral health services. Approximately 8.7 million children are expected to gain some form of dental benefits by 2018. (Evans par.8) Regular preventive dental care, such as cleaning and regularly brushing and flossing, improve the overall health and brightens up your life. (Wallace par.1) Keeping up on the regular cleaning at the dental office, which is once every six months, helps out tremendously but some people need more then twice a year. (Payne par.5)
What causes dental phobia? About 75% of such patients have had a bad childhood experience in a dentist's office. Another 25% suffer from other issues like post traumatic stress disorders e.g., war veterans, domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, for whom dental phobia becomes an unpleasant side effect. Also a lot of these patients didn't have a good access to dental care. Indirect experiences such as hearing about traumatic experiences/views of a friend or family member about dentistry may also contribute towards development of phobias.
Growing up I heard many stories from my peers of their experiences at the dentist’s office. It is upsetting to say that most of my visits were vividly terrifying. As a child, the grinding, scratching, and high-pitched twangs of the instruments digging around in my mouth would leave my ears ringing and teeth vibrating every single time. The smell of fluoride and disinfectants permanently infected the air, sending chills through my body the minute I walked in. I quickly learned that latex posses an extremely unappetizing aftertaste. Needless to say, I was not always enthusiastic about going to the dentist’s office and getting braces did not make anything better for me.