{"id":1516,"date":"2011-07-01T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T09:01:27","slug":"its-now-fun-to-have-your-teeth-pulled-2644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/its-now-fun-to-have-your-teeth-pulled-2644\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Now Fun To Have Your Teeth Pulled-2644"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that\u2019s according to a paediatric dentist in the United States. Jonathan Shenkin told reporters that he has created a friendlier atmosphere in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/cosmetic-dentistry\/index.htm\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"19\" title=\"dental\">dental<\/a> practice which he believes puts children at their ease.<\/p>\n<p>He told local reporters: &#8220;We create an environment that is friendly and hospitable to kids and not as clinical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to dental health experts in the US, tooth decay among children is a massive problem, but trying to get them to relax while dental surgery takes place can be a problem, particularly for younger children. Consequently, dentists such as Dr. Shenkin firmly believe surgeons need to offer a service that puts both them and their parents at ease.<\/p>\n<p>A report recently published by the Pew Centre said: \u201c[Children] who don&#8217;t receive dental care miss a significant number of school days, use expensive emergency room services more often and face worsened job prospects as adults, compared with their peers who do receive care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the US, dentists don\u2019t just learn dentistry they must also take a course in child psychology. This, according to Dr. Shenkin has helped in the design of his practice, as has his own childhood experience, which wasn\u2019t positive it seems. He said: \u201cIt didn&#8217;t go well. There was a lot of kicking and screaming on my part.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that\u2019s according to a paediatric dentist in the United States. Jonathan Shenkin told reporters that he has created a friendlier atmosphere in his dental practice which he believes puts children at their ease. He told local reporters: &#8220;We create an environment that is friendly and hospitable to kids and not as clinical.\u201d According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[953,43,407,155],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental","tag-child-psychology","tag-childrens-dental-care","tag-dental-anxiety","tag-tooth-decay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}