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Home Child/family-oriented approach: the teeth come after

Child/family-oriented approach: the teeth come after

Authors:

  • M. Beretta
    DDS, MS Ortho, MS Digital Dentistry, Private Practice in Varese, Italy
  • F. Federici Canova
    DDS, MS Ortho, Private Practice in Viadana (MN), Italy
  • A. Gianolio
    DDS, MS Ortho, Private Practice in Bra (CN), Italy
  • L. Zaffarano
    DDS, MS Paediatric Dentistry, Private Practice in Viadana (MN), Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23804/ejpd.2023.24.02.02

ABSTRACT


Background

The aim of this paper is to promote reflection on the dentist’s approach to the dental care of young patients, considering not only their oral care needs, but also the management of their behaviour, that is intrinsic to their life needs and to those of their families.

Case report

This approach to dental care management stems from a thorough evaluation of the patient, the reason for dental visit, whether the child had previous dental visit(s), which might not have been positive, the family involvement and the emotional characteristics of the child and their parents. We should design a progressive customized path, sometimes starting only from secondary prevention in order to "comfortably" avoid the worsening of a given clinical condition, stimulate a concomitant positive behavioural response of all parties involved, until the child and their family are ready to take the next step, in terms of integrated restorative dentistry and/or paediatric orthodontics, where and when needed.

Conclusion

“The teeth come after” means that dental and oral care of the children may not be achievable goals unless we first address their wellbeing and that of their families, and that sometimes “the perfect is the enemy of the good”, especially when we incorrectly consider only the clinical outcome. In this scenario, psychological skills and clinical feelings, comfort techniques, technologies, new materials and a more “medical less” surgical approaches are the bases for a child/family-oriented approach.

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Publication date:

June /2023

Keywords:

Bioactive materials, Intraoral scanner, Ozone therapy, buccality, child/family-oriented approach, orthodontic technopolymers, relative analgesia, secondary prevention

Issue:

Vol.24 – n.2/2023

Page:

130 – 132

Publisher:

Ariesdue

Topic:

Avantgarde in paediatric dentistry

Cite:


Harvard: M. Beretta, F. Federici Canova, A. Gianolio, L. Zaffarano (2023) "Child/family-oriented approach: the teeth come after", European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 24(2), pp130-132. doi: 10.23804/ejpd.2023.24.02.02
Vancouver: M. Beretta, F. Federici Canova, A. Gianolio, L. Zaffarano. Child/family-oriented approach: the teeth come after. European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry [Internet]. 2023Jun.22 [cited 2025Jun.14];24(2):130-132. Available from: https://www.ejpd.eu/abstract-pubmed/child-family-oriented-approach-the-teeth-come-after/
MLA: M. Beretta, F. Federici Canova, A. Gianolio, L. Zaffarano Child/family-oriented approach: the teeth come after. European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. 2023;24(2):130-132

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