What? NO. You do NOT traumatize children at the dentist! NO! I can't even understand that mentality. Our dentist is SO great with the museling; they had us bring him in to watch us get a cleaning first, then showed him all the tools and let him touch things and feel the points and stuff. They were willing to stop at any time at his first sign of discomfort with the process. It went SO well; he gets grumpy he only gets to go twice a year. Ha, how often do you hear that, right?
That sounds amazing. This place frankly felt like a frenetic mill trying to get as many kids through the pipe as fast as possible, following a standard script. I'm still really angry (as you can perhaps tell!)
I would be, too. I am so, so sorry you and your daughter had to go through that. A lot of kids find the dentist scary, and I feel like unless there's a clear problem that must be solved the number one goal of the visit is to make the child not scared.
When I was about Hypatia's age, my mother took me to a pediatric dentist for a check up. The dentist told her I had two cavities in my baby teeth that needed filling immediately, but there was something about him she didn't like, so she took me to her dentist for a second opinion. I had NO cavities (and in fact got my first and only cavity thus far at age THIRTY), but the second dentist also said most dentists won't drill into baby teeth unless the cavities are huge and/or hurting the child, because there's often no need. The pediatric dentist also did a lot of scare tactics around pressuring my mother around children's dental habits (and things she didn't do, like give me a bottle of milk to go to sleep or something), which is in fact the worst way you can try to persuade her to do
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Sorry for the bad dental visit. I hope she sort of forgets about it before the next attempt.
Pomodoros are very cool. I have to try that! My challenge would be to stay on one task for 25 mins, since I let myself be interrupted constantly, esp if I'm not liking what I'm doing. I hate losing work on a computer though, so sympathies there.
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When I was about Hypatia's age, my mother took me to a pediatric dentist for a check up. The dentist told her I had two cavities in my baby teeth that needed filling immediately, but there was something about him she didn't like, so she took me to her dentist for a second opinion. I had NO cavities (and in fact got my first and only cavity thus far at age THIRTY), but the second dentist also said most dentists won't drill into baby teeth unless the cavities are huge and/or hurting the child, because there's often no need. The pediatric dentist also did a lot of scare tactics around pressuring my mother around children's dental habits (and things she didn't do, like give me a bottle of milk to go to sleep or something), which is in fact the worst way you can try to persuade her to do ( ... )
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Pomodoros are very cool. I have to try that! My challenge would be to stay on one task for 25 mins, since I let myself be interrupted constantly, esp if I'm not liking what I'm doing. I hate losing work on a computer though, so sympathies there.
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