Never let your child go into a dentist or doctors office by themselves. Your presence is a comfort to them. And prevents mistreatment of your child.
Without knowing the details, I think a knee jerk reaction to the procedure is maybe...and I emphasize MAYBE - not proper. A 5 year old is very likely to make a sudden movement that will cause her significant damage while the dentist is inside her mouth.
Having said that, I think the parent should indeed be in the room. That’s my main issue off the top.
I agree. Maybe, if the dentist won’t allow you in the room with your 5 year old, you need a new dentist.
That is a papoose board, which is frequently used to restrain children who are pre-cooperative. Keeps them from hurting themselves.
I have used them myself, but ALWAYS with parental consent and allowing the parent to be there to comfort the child.
Now, why are the two front teeth being removed? I suspect the tyke has bottle mouth, which is most often caused by parents putting the child to bed with a bottle of juice/Kool-Aid. The front teeth are bathed with sugar setting up deterioration of the two front teeth.
While I have no minor children the dentist office we use has a sign stating that they will not treat minors unless a parent or guardian is present.
We never had those things in the olden days
A good healthcare provider would never separate apparent from a child. Good for this dad for not following the “rules” depriving him of his parental rights and that allow this abuse his five-year-old daughter. The best children’s dentists have open-office layouts where parents can always keep an eye on the children while their teeth are being worked on and children can see their parents.
Hard to believe NO2 is not enough, that must be one scared girl.
When my youngest was 4, he had to have several teeth extracted (kid has been a dentist’s gold mine). My husband sat in the chair and held on to him during the procedure. Much less traumatizing for the kid that way.
I don’t know the circumstances of this incident. Decades ago, when I was a phlebotomist, we had to restrain infants and children in similar equipment to acquire blood samples. The testing was always important and required venous blood samples. We could do finger or heel sticks for routine work. Parents were always informed when the papoose approach was necessary. It upset them, but they understood the importance of the testing. If they refused the restraints, I refused the draw. When a child’s arm is as wide as two of your fingers, they can’t be flailing about when you’re using even something small like a 25 gauge needle.
My child was never alone with any type of doctor at the age of five.
“Anyways”
Grrr...
I would think there could be a problem with informed consent ie, the dentist should have informed the parents that such restraints would be used if this was not common knowledge. That being said, it is common practice at least in the medical profession not to allow parents to be present during pediatric surgical procedures. I don’t think it would be helpful if parents were present during the removal of a brain tumor.
I have a dentist who is a very good friend of mine. He told me they have to do that sometimes to keep the child from causing self-inflicted injuries. Either that, or the child has to suffer horrible dental problems.
“Is it safe ?”
Killing bad guys in war bad. Aborting babies for convenience good.
My dentist requests (demands actually) that an adult come with the child. Same with our eye doctor.
I can get my little girl calmed done faster than he can.
Along the same lines, we live in a malaria area. So, to test for it, we prick ourselves, prepare a blood smear on a glass slide and take that to a lab for diagnosis. Except, my son could not stay still for me, or his dad, or anyone, to get a blood sample.
What to do? Malaria, if untreated, kills you. We had to have it diagnosed.
We decided that we would wait until our son was asleep. Then, while he was asleep, we would stick the finger or toe which was easiest to access. The son would always know prior to sleeping that this was to happen.
You can imagine the screaming which would occur after the stick! I remember so many times, trying now to hang onto finger or toe in order to get two drops of blood. The kid is yelling now and I am, too. "JT, it's been done already. Hold still! It's over! Let me get the blood."
Not fun at the time. Hilarious now.