Review by
Smiling Patient
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3.0
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2005-08-05
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Children are required to go alone, even the little ones, to avoid the perception that "parents" might 'rescue' them." Handouts caution us to describe procedures in language that is patronizing and untruthful. It'll be hard work regaining a child's trust after being expected to abandon them, then misrepresenting an extraction of a tooth as a "wiggle," a shot that is not an injection, but "sprinkles in sleepy juice" and when pain is dismissed as "feels different," rather than "hurting." Children are routinely given gas, even for fillings. Regular docs don't do this. Seeing children who somberly leave parents and return in a stupor, I couldn't help but feel this is about managing INCONVENIENT behavior, rather than good medicine that assuages fears through old-fashioned interpersonal skills requiring honesty, patience, trust-building, rapport with and respect for kids. Children are MANAGED rather than made comfortable, a seeming trend in ped. dentistry that benefits only the DDS and leaves kids w/out loving support. They are not without fear so much as without options. Going w/ your child means a chat w/ the office manager (willing) and some polite insistence.Their treatment philosophy humors this as an exception. Insist on it.
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