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byAlma Abell
Once you have completed dental school, you have the option of going on to further your education to specialize and become children’s dentists in Phoenixville. Pediatric Dentistry of Collegeville educated you in how to make trips to the dentist more comfortable and less scary for young children. You will be shown how to set up the waiting room in a way that will help children not only have fun while waiting but also look forward to coming back. You will learn why those first exams are best done with the child sitting in the lap of their parents so that they will feel safe and secure. You will learn about how young children learn so that you can either produce or purchase videos that teach young children about oral hygiene in ways the encourage them to want to learn great habits at home for taking care of their teeth.
Both in school and then in pediatric dental residency, the children’s dentists in Phoenixville learn about what kind of nutrition is best for young children to help ensure that their first teeth have grown in properly. You will sit in on parental counseling so that you know the right way to educate new parents about nutrition that is good for the oral hygiene of their children. Not only will you learn to advise them on what they should do, but why it is so important that they actually follow through with that advice. You will come to understand what it takes to help parents of young children to decide to follow your advice.
Becoming a pediatric dentist is very challenging because you have to learn not only dental practices but child psychology and parental psychology, explaining why taking good care of a child’s teeth between years 1 through 10 are so important. Most parents kind of know that that is the age when children learn to talk, but they don’t realize that problems with their teeth could cause poor speech articulation during those most important learning years. Not only that, but how well those baby teeth grow in will determine how their permanent teeth grow in. New parents really don’t know how important good dental health is to the long term health of their child and it is the pediatric dentist that tells them about it and how to provide good dental habits early on that will last a lifetime.