5 Books to Help Your Child With Dental Anxiety

Dental anxiety is prevalent among children. Experts believe it may be due to the unknown factors. Reading books about dental anxiety with your child may help when they visit their pediatric dentist in Midwest City, OK. Here are five book recommendations to consider:

1. Getting Ready for My Dentist Visit

Written for children between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, this book explains many of the sights and sounds that the child will experience during their first dentist visit, such as the “big chair,” the lights and the dental tools.

2. The Dentist’s Dragons

Targeted for kids aged between 3 and 9 years old, this rhyming book helps children overcome dental anxiety with a story of a boy dentist and his dragons. Your child will love the illustrations and have a chance to get more familiar with the dentist visit sights and sounds.

3. Pout-Pout Fish Goes to the Dentist

Pout-Pout fish is a New York Times Bestselling series. In this book for children between the ages of 2 and 5 years, the lovable fish faces his dental fears with the help of the dentist and a few fun stickers!

4. Dentist Day: Emma Every Day

Written with kids between the ages of 4 and 8 years old in mind, this book in a series has the heroine, Emma, visiting the dentist for the first time. Emma uses sign language, as she is hearing impaired, but that doesn’t stop her from experiencing dental anxiety!

5. The Crocodile and the Dentist

This book for kids 7 to 9 years old is highly rated on Goodreads. The book highlights the feelings of both the dentist and the crocodile. The crocodile is fearful of the dentist, but the dentist is afraid of the crocodile!

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