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Tears & Fears
As a pediatric dentist, I specialize in children and special needs patients. Nevertheless, a large part of my job is overcoming parental fears.
Parents have an incredible influence on their children; both positively and negatively.
Kids are so tuned into parental non-verbal communication that even if a mother does not say anything negative about an upcoming dental visit, their own worries and fears will cause their child to worry too.
Autism & dental care
A recent national Pediatric Dentistry meeting had an excellent speaker, Dr. Cavan Brunsden, DMD, on Autism. Here is some of the material he covered:
- Autism is a developmental disorder of the brain that has no known cure and usually appears before age 3.
- Poor social interactions and communication with repetitive behaviors are indicators of Autism.
- Autistic people have a genetic tendency to be more sensitive to toxins than other people because they cannot easily remove environmental toxins from their bodies.
Medical Emergencies
Our continuing education class on medical emergencies was held by the Clackamas Dental Society in Wilsonville, Oregon. This class covered all the most common emergencies that dentists in Portland and Oregon City might see in their offices.
The most common problem is fainting, followed by hyperventilation due to anxiety and fear. Pediatric dentists are probably the best trained dentists to reduce fear of dentistry but we still have some hyperventilating kids; luckily not to the point of medical emergencies though.
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