When I can, I take two or three young children into the treatment room. It is called modeling. I learned it in school. It helps the younger children to be less fearful of the what will happen to them during their appointment time. It works. Sometimes the younger one can't wait to get into the dental chair to get his "turn'.
I had two boys, one five and one three. I started with the five year old. I asked him what his name was and he told me Chris. I asked him what his brother's name was and he told me he didn't know. I was shocked. I guess in the three years his brother has been living, it has never come up. Strange.
What do you think?
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