clusion, or misalignment of upper and lower teeth, according to Pearson.


Role Modeling “Parents play a pivotal role in their children’s dental hygiene. They influ- ence how their children care for their teeth, behave in the dentist’s office and feel about dental visits,” advises Pentti Nupponen, a doctor of dental medi- cine and owner of the Halifax Center for Holistic & Cosmetic Dentistry, in Halifax, Pennsylvania.


Children should be made familiar with dentistry and taught that they are responsible for their dental hygiene from around age 1. Nupponen ex- plains his gentle method: “I encour- age mothers to bring their children along for dental appointments so that they can watch me from their mother’s lap. Generally, by the time they are alone in my chair, they aren’t frightened.”


Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Connect at ItsAllAboutWe.com.


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