ABC Dentist

Dentists can be very scary people. Not many people like to have someone looking into their mouths to check out their teeth. Probably the only time teeth are fun is when one falls out and the tooth fairy comes to leave some money! There are all kinds of things to learn about healthy teeth from A to Z. Q is for Questions: Patient: "Will it hurt?" Dentist: "It doesn't have to hurt. If what I'm going to do might hurt, I will inject some medicine so you won't feel it." This was a surprisingly well done book with a considerable amount of information that a child can easily understand and absorb with additional information that will interest the parent, caretaker or teacher. In this A to Z book about healthy teeth there are simple explanations about everything from the use of floss to what plaque and saliva are. One of the more interesting is an illustration detailing the number and names of all the teeth. The text was reviewed by a DDS for accuracy. This would be a good introduction to acquaint the young child with dentists and prevent not only cavities, but fear of dentistry itself.