How to Prepare a Child for a Visit to the Dentist: A Working Scheme
To ensure that your child is not afraid to open his mouth in front of the doctor, he should be prepared for a visit to the dental clinic.
Explain that you are going to see a dentist.
The doctor will check how the teeth feel and whether they are growing correctly.
If there are small holes in the teeth, the dentist will treat them so that they do not become large.
Let them know that adults go to the dentist too.
You can tell the child that mom and dad also go to the dentist, and when dad had a toothache, the doctor cured it - at this stage, you should show the child that same cured tooth.
Play dentist: you can be the doctor and your child can be the patient.
During the game, introduce your little one to everything that will happen in the dentist's office, after which you can switch roles with your child: let him now be the doctor, and you the patient.
Earlier we talked about why the habit of obeying parents is not beneficial for a child.
