For many parents, the phrase "treating a child's teeth" is a source of trembling and fear, since not every adult can sit in a dentist's chair without fear. To treat teeth for children, it will take a lot of patience and time before the desired result can be achieved. Especially if the child is already experiencing pain symptoms. If it is hardly possible to cure painlessly, then most likely you will have to resort to pain relievers.
Instructions
Step 1
It all depends on how deep caries you find in a child's tooth. With shallow caries, treatment may well be painless. In any case, if you find this problem with teeth, do not give out your concern to the child, but start preparing him for a trip to the clinic with the help of playing dentist. Remember yourself as a child? Surely you've been a pretend dentist's patient. So now is the time to remember everything with your child. During the game, the kid will learn about how the treatment is going on and what awaits him at the dentist. Be a patient first and then a doctor.
Step 2
In parallel with this, start actively looking for a doctor who knows how to find an approach to children, it depends on how willingly your baby will go to the dentist in the future. If the first visit will discourage the child from all desire to have his teeth treated, you are unlikely to be able to convince him later. It is better not to spare the money and take him to a paid clinic for the first time, where the treatment will be accompanied by the showing of cartoons with a friendly and patient attitude, and in addition he will be given gifts.
Step 3
The clinic should have everything you need, up to anesthesia, to carry out treatment under special circumstances, for example:
- when the baby is very afraid;
- when the child is small, and there is a large amount of treatment;
- when he has an increased gag reflex or other medical indications.
If, for some reason, treatment is not possible under general anesthesia, the use of local anesthetics is discussed. The doctor advises premedication, which consists in the fact that before the start of treatment, the child is prescribed special drugs that have a calming effect and enhance the effect of local anesthesia in 20-30 minutes.
