In the dental clinic, it often happens that the child is unable to cooperate with the examination and treatment, and after returning home, he cries because of a toothache, leaving parents helpless.
When the child is too young to cooperate with the treatment, restraint treatment will be adopted. Restraint therapy is also called medical immobilization, which is to control the hands and feet in the restraint bag to prevent the child from reaching out to grasp the doctor's arm or the instrument in use when crying and resisting, turning over or sitting up suddenly, causing accidental injury to the skin or mucous membranes, or in severe cases. The device falls, causing aspiration and aspiration and even life-threatening.
If the child is healthy, does not have systemic chronic diseases, is under four years old, weighs no more than 25 kg, and cannot cooperate with crying and crying, try to treat the tooth under restraint to avoid affecting the child's normal diet and growth. For special circumstances such as disabled children, the age can be appropriately relaxed provided that the weight does not exceed 25 kg. However, it is not recommended for people with autism, chronic diseases such as asthma, epilepsy, abdominal hernia, hiatal hernia, gastroesophageal reflux, blood system diseases such as hemophilia, aplastic anemia and leukemia, congenital heart disease and hypertension, etc. Use restraint therapy.
Success and failure are related to many factors. Parental guidance is very important. It is necessary to guide children in a soothing tone and try to avoid mentioning words such as "tied" or "tied" that make children more nervous and fearful. If children are forcibly restrained, although they can control their hands and feet, it is also very dangerous for them to cry, kick, and shake their heads violently. The older the child, the deeper the memory of the fear of seeing teeth, so psychological counseling is very important.
During the treatment, the parents follow the doctor’s request to help the child fix the mouth gag, and tell the child a story or talk appropriately to relieve the child’s crying emotions, and avoid excessive behaviors and movements that disturb the normal medical treatment. This is a child. The key to safe treatment. Before treatment, remember to bring your child a set of spare clothes to prevent the child from crying, sweating, and getting cold when the clothes are soaked during the treatment. The meal before the treatment should also be moderate. Eating and drinking will cause vomiting when crying. Increase the risk of treatment.
How to cooperate with the children's parents?
1. Do a good job in the psychological construction of parents themselves
As a parent, you must first overcome the psychological shadow of seeing your teeth, so that your children can receive dental examination and treatment as soon as possible.
2. Parents must do a good job in the psychological construction of their children
In daily life, you should describe the dentist and dental visits positively, and tell your child what is about to happen as clearly as possible. For younger children, visual but not terrifying language can be used to explain the operations that may be required, such as "the dentist will take a shower on the teeth with a shower" and "put a protective film on your teeth."
In order to reduce the pain and fear during treatment, local anesthesia is sometimes required, and only slight discomfort is required. Please do not mention the words "injection", "prick", "pain", etc., but you can try "the dentist can help you take this Take down the baby teeth that are going to retire", "The dentist can make the teeth take a little sleep medicine, and then it will not feel" and similar conversations.
3. Do a good job in family oral health care for children
Before the child sees the dentist for the first time, parents should have a certain understanding of the health of their teeth, and prepare colorful toothbrushes, toothpastes of different colors and flavors, and cute floss sticks for their children, and insist on helping at least twice a day. Children clean their teeth, let them fall in love with brushing their teeth, and develop good oral hygiene habits.
4. Prepare a gift for the child after seeing the teeth
When a child sees a dentist for the first time, he may feel a sense of fear in the unfamiliar environment and uniformed medical staff, and give the child a promise that he/she can get a favorite gift after seeing the dentist and go to a place where he/she wants to go to play. Or eating delicious food can give children the motivation to see the teeth in order to realize their wishes. Of course, parents must honor their promises. Some parents will give their children their favorite gifts to the dentist for safekeeping before the dental visit, and let the dentist give the gift to the child as a reward after the treatment. The child will be overjoyed.
5. Parents should set goals for the first dental visit
I don’t agree that parents set their children’s expectations for the first dental visits too high. Even if the children are extremely unwilling, they must be compulsorily completed. If they fail to achieve their goals, they will not go home. This idea is inappropriate for children who have dental visits for the first time. It is not a dental treatment that is considered a successful dentist visit.
When seeing a dentist for the first time, you can set a small goal. The child can enter the office, go to the dental chair, communicate with the doctor and nurse (language or expression), mainly to familiarize with the environment, and to lay the foundation for avoiding or reducing dental fear in the future. Furthermore, the child can open his mouth and allow the doctor to put the mouth mirror in the mouth and examine the teeth.
A further goal can be simple operations such as cleaning teeth and applying fluoride, so that patients will not see the "sharp" tools that scare them.