Dr. Wolff and her team make it a practice to use fun, pleasant, non-frightening words to describe procedures and processes to all visiting children. Check out several fun, kid-friendly terms below and feel free to use these when discussing oral hygiene with your child.
- Call the Tooth Fairy = Extraction
- Make Teeth Sparkle = Cleaning
- Rain Coat = Rubber Dam
- Silver Hat = Tooth Crown
- Sleepy Tooth = Numb Tooth
- Sleepy Juice/Numbing Medicine = Anesthetic
- Spinning Toothbrush = Tooth Polisher
- Sugar Bugs = Cavities
- Tooth Counter = Explorer and Scaler
- Tooth Pillow = Mouth Prop
- Tooth Tickler = Drill