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This school of thought needs to be displaced within our youth so that they are aware and are able to take care of their teeth.\u00a0Dental anxiety or phobia is often the result of an unhappy dental experience in our youth. In our middle aged population of today, I often hear the stories of poor patient management when they were kids in school.\u00a0 But so much has changed; not only are there\u00a0kinder and more considerate attitudes towards the youth and adults\u00a0but also there has been a\u00a0huge progression in the dental treatment techniques. Using\u00a0better local anaesthetics along with the\u00a0sedation for those patients who have sadly already developed dental anxiety and phobias of going to the dentist from their youth.\u00a0Nowadays, children are treated carefully, with respect and a sense of fun in the surgery.\u00a0 The school dental service employs very able and highly trained and skilled dentists and dental therapists and everything is aimed at making the early dental experiences happy and fun for our youth.\u00a0 There are also dentists who specialise in children\u2019s dentistry; these are Paediatric dentists.Having mentioned dental therapists, some people may not know what they are so let me explain.\u00a0 These are highly trained dental professionals who have undergone considerable clinical and academic training to enable them to provide dental fillings and all the various aspects of preventive dental health care for young people under the age of 18 years.\u00a0 Not only that, but also more recently many dental therapists are \u201cdual qualified\u201d and are also dental hygienists.\u00a0 They spend each and every working day with children and develop a very special rapport with their young patients.\u00a0 You can usually tell their surgeries from their dentist colleagues from the vast array of child paintings and toys that adorn the walls.\u00a0 They usually make their workplace a colourful and fun place to be.So the message I want to get out to the community is that taking your children to a dental therapist or a Paediatric Dentist is one of the most positive and powerful contributions you can make to help the current generation of children grow up without any fear of the dentist.\u00a0 There are plenty of dental practices that employ dental therapists, so ask at your dentist and make sure you start your kids off very young, even as their baby teeth just start to come through into their mouth.\u00a0 The first few visits are only going to be for a ride in the dental chair, to play with a dental therapists glove blown up like a balloon, and gradually when they are comfortable in the dental chair environment, the therapist will get them to open their mouth and \u201ccount\u201d their teeth.It\u2019s a stage-by-stage progression, with fun and toys and each time introducing a little more of the dental environment.\u00a0 It works too.\u00a0 This generation of children have got the opportunity of growing up without any fear of the dentist.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s got to be better.Without anxiety over a dental visit, people can attend regularly for preventive advice and care and thereby prevent having to experience extensive fillings and other forms of invasive dental treatment.Todays emphasis should be on prevention; it must start as young as possible, andcontinue through life.\u00a0 The main objectives in the early years will be on providinginformation to parents on dietary matters and of course the best and most effective ways to clean the teeth.\u00a0 The use of 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