Child Taming: How to Manage Children in Dental Practice: Paediatric Dentistry/ Orthodontics 1 (Quintessentials of Dental Practice)

Dentistry can provoke great apprehension in children, and successfully managing younger patients presents both the greatest challenge and the greatest reward for dentists. This book focuses on training the dental team and parents to work together to ensure that a child's visit to the dentist is a pleasurable experience. This book aims to give family dentists the keys to successful child management by showing how to create a child-friendly atmosphere, co-ordinate the whole dental team, communicate with children and their families, create a treatment plan conducive to child care, utilise behavioural management techniques, decide when and how to use conscious sedation and general anaesthesia, and link with wider specialist and community services. --pref This text discusses how to cope with children in dental practice covering topics such as behavioural management techniques, sequential treatment planning, conscious sedation and general anaesthesia.