The document focuses on parental counseling in pediatric dentistry, emphasizing the importance of educating parents about their child's oral health at various developmental stages. It discusses strategies to prevent dental diseases from conception to adolescence, including dietary practices, oral hygiene, and emotional support. The findings indicate a low routine dental visit rate among children, highlighting the need for increased awareness and engagement from parents regarding their children's dental care.

2. PARENTAL COUNSELLING
 Presented by : Madina Aryubzazai
 Pediatric dentistry department

3. CONTENT
 Introduction
 Purpose
 Education of parent in various aspect of dentistry
 Preventing of dental disease from concept to 3 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease from 3-6 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease from 6-12 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease in the adolsence
 Preventing dental injury
 Conclusion

4. INTRODUCTION
 Parent counselling can be defined as educating the parents regarding the child`s oral health status .
 Optimal health care and informing them about the prevention of potential dental diseases.

5. PURPOSE
 Discussion of emotional problems of children
 To offer the dentist an insight into parental influence , which produce unnecessary anxieties.
 Knowing about the attitude of parents toward behavior management techniques used during dental treatment of
children.
 obtaining the cooperation of a child patient
 Educating the parents about various dental problems , diseases and their sequelae and how they can be prevevnt

6. INFORMTHE PARENT
 Not to voice their own personal fears in front of the child .
 Never to use dentistry as a threat of punishment .
 To familiarize their child to dentistry by taking the child to the dentist
 About the home environment and importance of moderate parent attitudes in building well adjusted children
 Never to embarrass , scold or ridicule the child to overcome the fear of dental treatment .
 Not to bribe their child to go to the dentist .
 To convey to the children in a casual manner that they have been invited to visit the dentist .
 To commit the child to dentist `s care in the office and should not enter the treatment room

8.  Malocclusion
 Delay eruption of teeth
 CLCP
 ECC
 Riga-Fede disease
 Dental trauma

9.  A total of 309 questionnaires were completed (response rate =98%). More than 90% of the participants believed
that oral health and dentition affected total-body well-being. Only 18% of parents stated that their children had
excellent oral health. Interestingly, more than two thirds of children had not had a routine dentist visit in the 12
months preceding the interview.

10. EDUCATION OF PARENT INVARIOUS ASPECT OF DENTISTRY
 Preventing of dental disease from concept to 3 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease from 3-6 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease from 6-12 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease in the adolescence

11. PREVENTING OF DENTAL DISEASE FROM CONCEPT TO 3YEARS AGE
 Dental development of their child.
 The dental diseases process.
 Appropriate feeding practices emphasizing the hazards of improper bottle and breastfeeding .
 Oral hygiene measures appropriate for infants and toddlers.
 Also in pregnancy the food need increase to meet the

12. WHY THE PRIMARYTEETH IMPORTANT
 Act like foundation stone for permanent teeth
 They maintain space
 Help in normal growth of jaw
 Provide a sense of self worth
 Help in the first step of grinding of food

13. PREVENTING OF DENTAL DISEASE FROM 3-6YEARS OF AGE
 Children in this age group frequently exhibit gingivitis and may experience rampant caries.
1. Diet
2. Oral hygiene
3. Fluoride
4. Professional dental care

14. PREVENTING OF DENTAL DISEASE FROM 6-12YEARS OF AGE
 Eruption of the first permanent molar in the age of 6 years is a milestone requiring preventive action.
 parents are educated about the importance of the first permanent molars.
 they are told how the various preventive measures taken at home

15. PREVENTIVE PROTOCOL IN 6-12YEARS AGE
 Sealant
 Diet
 Fluoride
 Oral hygiene
 Habits

16. PREVENTING OF DENTAL DISEASE INTHE ADOLESCENCE
 Prevention of dental caries continues to be an oral health priority during adolescence and prevention of
periodontal disease become a special concern.
 The main processes utilized are:
I. Rejection of many parental value
II. The beginning of independent struggle
III. The testing out types of behavioral experimentation

17. CON…
I. Oral hygiene
 Brushing and flossing
 Periodontal health

18. CON….
I.
II. Diet
 In parent with high caries rate
 Diet control and aggressive fluoride therapy
 Analyze 3 or 5 days diet

19. CON…
I. Fluoride
 Systemic fluoride
 Topical fluoride
 Use of fluoride containing dentifries

20. CON…
I. Orthodontics
 Gingivitis and Gingival hyperplasia
 Topical fluoride therapy
 Removal of the plaque

21. CON…
I. Smokeless tobacco
 It is because of peer pressure ?
 It is because of home environment?
 It is because of had company?
 How long he has been using tobacco?

22. DIET QUESTIONS

23. HABITS RECORDED COUCELLED
 Habits to be encouraged
• Habits
• Foods

24. CON…..
 Habits to be discouraged
• Sugar related

25. PREVENTING DENTAL INURY
 Avulsed teeth
 Parents are advanced to immediately contact the dentist
 Primary teeth 12-30 months
 Major cause of dental injuries in children is falls during play

26. CONCLUSION
 Specific counselling in different ages
 Preventing of dental disease from concept to 3 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease from 3-6 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease from 6-12 years of age
 Preventing of dental disease in the adolsence

27. REFERENCE
 Tandon ,SH .( 2018)TEXTBOOK OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY 3rd
EDITION .PP:433-439
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