Silent Struggles - Shedding Light on Oral Myofunctional Challenges in Little Ones: Healthcare from Your Dentist's Chair
Joy Lantz, RDH, PHDH, COM, IBCLC, shares her passion and expertise in educating dental professionals in this enlightening presentation on infant and toddler dental care. In recent years, dentistry’s focus has been on sleep, airway, and myofunctional therapy. There is one group that has been left to the wayside—the infant and toddler population. Dental professionals were not fully trained in caring for oral growth in this age group. We are missing a big link to future problems by waiting to see these children. The future of dental hygiene and oral health is early disease prevention without even picking up a dental instrument.
Learning Objectives
- Examine the American Dental Association's recommendations that the first dental visit should occur within six months after the baby's first tooth appears, but no later than the child's first birthday.
- Define the dental professional’s role in seeing patients starting as infants and what to look for.
- Describe what early intervention in a dental office could look like.
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