What should parents look for before their child’s dental appointment?

  Due to the large number of children attending the department on weekends and holidays, the environment of the department is relatively noisy, so the long waiting time and noisy environment are not conducive to children’s behavior induction and cooperation with treatment, so please try to arrange non-weekend and non-holiday visits for uncooperative children such as timid and anxious children.  Parents are requested to inform their children of the slight discomfort they may experience during the dental treatment, and to give them more positive induction without mentioning too much about injections, pain, etc. Parents are requested to give their children more positive encouragement together with the doctor during the treatment, so as to avoid the transmission of negative emotions such as anxiety and tension from parents to their children. You should also not deceive your child before treatment to ensure that there is no discomfort from the dental visit to avoid the opposite effect. With the development of modern dental technology, we have suitable treatment methods and painless local anesthesia for children, so please don’t worry too much about the pain in the treatment for parents. Good emotional and psychological induction is the basis to ensure the child’s positive cooperation with the treatment, which needs to be done by the doctor and parents together.  If your child is younger (under 4 years old) and may not be able to cooperate with the oral treatment operation, the doctor may take auxiliary measures such as behavioral restraint after informed parental consent, and parents should actively cooperate, otherwise it will result in untreatable. If there is a clear need for treatment children should eat in the morning and ensure at least four hours of fasting to avoid vomiting during treatment and the risk of accidental aspiration.  For some uncooperative children, in addition to positive encouragement methods, we may appropriately adopt critical and harsh child behavior induction methods. We ask for parents’ understanding and support to ensure that we effectively induce the child to help complete treatment.  In order to ensure safe and effective treatment, please inform your doctor in advance if your child has any systemic diseases such as drug allergies or respiratory diseases.