It's hard to know when to take your child to their first dental appointment. You want to be prepared and responsible, but you also don't want to jump on the fast track of being a helicopter parent. Why It's An Important Decision... Tooth decay is a prevalent problem in the lives of children. "'Far too many children suffer far too much dental disease, and it is overwhelmingly preventable,' says Burton L. Edelstein, D.D.S., founding director of the Children's Dental Health Project in Washington, DC. Legislators are listening: A bill, the Children's Dental Health Improvement Act of 2002, aimed at [...]

It's every parent's worst nightmare when their kids hate the dentist. What can you do? They need their teeth cleaned, but obviously you don't have the energy to deal with your kid crying into the carpet, arms going limp as you hoist them off the floor. In their defense, the dentist can be scary. No one really prods around in their mouth all the time or has such bright and scary alien equipment. BUT, there's some good news in all this - we're a special kind of dentist office. While we can't guarantee a fuss-free zone completely, we do [...]