First Visit
Our office as well as The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends that you establish a “Dental Home” early and bring your child in for his or her first visit by the age of one or as soon as the first tooth erupts. A child who has a dental home is more likely to receive appropriate preventive and routine oral health care.
The Dental Home is the ongoing relationship between us and the patient, inclusive of all aspects of oral health care delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and family-centered way.
We strive to provide your infant or toddler the opportunity to systematically familiarize with their dental home. Our doctors will address age appropriate anticipatory guidance, nutritional information and preventive home care information that will help you make a positive impact on your child’s dental and overall well-being.
Our goal is to gain your child’s confidence and help them overcome apprehension.
What to expect?
When you arrive, our team will have your child checked in and we will confirm all of your insurance and health information, soon after you and your child will be brought in to your child will receive a comprehensive evaluation, professionally clean your child’s teeth, apply fluoride when indicated and take dental x-rays fallowing the AAPD guidelines recommendation based on individual needs. We will also determine your child caries risk to better establishing individualized preventive measures and monitoring.
We invite you to stay with your child during the initial examination. During future appointments, we suggest you allow your child to accompany our staff through the dental experience. We can usually establish a closer rapport with your child when you are not present. Our purpose is to gain your child’s confidence and overcome apprehension. However, if you choose, you are more than welcome to accompany your child to the treatment room. For the safety and privacy of all patients, other children who are not being treated should remain in the reception room with a supervising adult.
Tips to avoid creating or decrease fear towards dental visit:
Avoid the negative discussion of dentistry by not using the words such as drill, grind, hurt, shot, and needle. Please do not indicate that there is anything to fear.
– Read age appropriate books with dentist visit related content like:
