Dental Fears, Positive Emotional Contagion.
Many people have dental fears, and fears of visiting the dentist is a frequent problem in pediatric dentistry as well. According to studies on addressing children dental fears, it is important to involve mothers and especially fathers in dentist fear prevention campaigns.
In addition fathers should attend their child dentist visit and display no signs of fear or anxiety. Parents are the key in addressing their child dental fears. They should appear relaxed as a way of directly ensuring that the child is relaxed too. The right attitude can be achieved in the child so that attending the dentist is not a problem,