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The Calm Chair Method™ in children with Autistic spectrum
Dental care for autistic children has to begin before the chair. For many children on the autism spectrum, a dental visit feels genuinely overwhelming. Why...
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Why Dr. Imneet Madan Developed The Calm Chair Method™
Why children fear the dentist is the question that shaped this whole practice. After nearly two decades with children in clinical settings, one truth became...
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Conscious Pediatric dentistry by Dr. Imneet Madan
Home of The Calm Chair Method™ In the silence between heartbeats, lies the symphony of our deepest emotions. Conscious pediatric dentistry looks beyond teeth, cavities...
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Mouth Breathing: Why it Matters and How Myofunctional Therapy can help
Mouth breathing in children changes how the face, teeth and sleep develop. Parents often arrive worried about night-time grinding, and this turns out to be...
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Airway Centric Pediatric Dentistry
Airway centric dentistry connects breathing, sleep and facial growth. Research increasingly links breathing patterns to craniofacial development, sleep physiology and neurocognitive function. In short, how...
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The Calm Chair Method
The Calm Chair Method is Dr. Imneet Madan’s blueprint for happy pediatric dental visits. The name sounds technical, yet it is really a celebration of...
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Reaction Vs Response in Pediatric Dentistry
Reaction versus response sounds like wordplay, yet the difference decides how a child copes in the dental chair. The two terms are commonly used interchangeably,...
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End of Year, End of Fear
Overcoming dental fear deserves reflection as much as technique. At the close of a year, most of us naturally look back. Reflection, love and courage...
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Day to day language and vocabulary in the dental office
Dental office vocabulary shapes fear more than any instrument does. The words a parent uses in the waiting room can decide how the appointment goes....
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Fear of the unknown at the dental appointments
Fear of the unknown at the dentist drives most childhood dental anxiety. Children rarely fear what they can picture. They fear what might happen next....
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NLP in preparing the child with dental phobia to come back for dental visit
Dental phobia in children usually starts with one bad appointment. Bringing them back afterwards takes a plan, not persuasion. What NLP actually does Neurolinguistic programming...
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Correlation between child development psychology and dental appointment
Child development psychology and a dental appointment seem unrelated on the surface. Look deeper, though, and one explains the other. The foundation beneath behaviour Understanding...
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Primary teeth dental decays and their impact on permanent teeth
Primary teeth decay does not automatically doom the permanent teeth. The two are connected, but they are not directly proportional. How common it is Research...
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Are cookies and candies the only reason for cavities?
Sugar and cavities in children are firmly linked in most parents’ minds. Candies and cookies take the blame, yet they are not the whole story....
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Impact of backlog information on Coping ability
A child’s past dental experience arrives at the appointment before they do. So do stories from siblings, parents, classmates and cartoons. False evidence appearing real...
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Slow Approach Dentistry
Slow approach dentistry goes further with an anxious child precisely because it does not rush. The traffic signal metaphor fits children’s dentistry perfectly. Stop, check,...
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Noise Vs Signal in Pediatric Dentistry and life
Noise versus signal is worth separating carefully, both in the dental chair and beyond it. The two carry very different information. What noise is Noise...
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Nature Vs Nurture
Nature versus nurture describes the biological and environmental factors behind a child’s behavioural development. In the dental chair, the nurture side is where we can...
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Pediatric Dentistry – Tongue Tie treatments
Tongue tie in children is missed far more often than it is found. The signs are subtle, and they appear long before anyone mentions speech....
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Structure of human brain and responses in dental chair
The amygdala and dental fear are closely linked. Understanding that link explains why certain words make a child freeze before anything has even happened. A...
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Anchoring with give-aways in pediatric dentistry
Anchoring in pediatric dentistry turns a small token into a lasting memory. Gifts and rewards are appreciated by everyone, and children are no exception. Rewarding...
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Home tips for dental friendly diet
Dental caries is a multifactorial disease where out of many factors, diet and oral hygiene practicedo play a profound role in the upkeep. Good dietary...
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Fear: real or imaginary?
Child dental fear is entirely real to the child, whatever its origin. Fear is often described as an acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. Behaviour is...
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Laser Pediatric Dentist-Smile, you are in safe hands.
In this Gulf News interview, Dr. Imneet Madan explains how she became a laser pediatric dentist and why the technology changed her practice. Gulf News...
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Erbium Lasers in Co-COVID Dentistry
Erbium laser dentistry reduces aerosol during treatment. That single property made it valuable during COVID-19, and it still matters for everyday infection control. Why aerosol...
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Understanding Children’s Behavior
Child behaviour at the dentist is rarely the whole story. Understanding it means looking well past the surface. Peeling the layers Behaviour seems to many...
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I am OK, you are OK
Transactional analysis in dentistry explains what happens between dentist, parent and child. Get that exchange right, and treatment starts on a positive note. The pedodontic...
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Emotional Freedom Technique in Pediatric Dentistry
The emotional freedom technique helps anxious children settle before treatment begins. It relieves anxiety, fear, physical pain and deeper emotional blocks. Emotions as energy in...
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Laser Dentistry in Dubai: Fear Free Dentistry
Fear free dentistry starts by removing what children actually fear. Take away the needle and the drill, and most of the anxiety goes with them....
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Why do we need Pediatric Dentist?
Parents often ask why choose a pediatric dentist at all, when a family dentist can fill a cavity perfectly well. The materials are the same....
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NLP in Pediatric Dentistry
NLP in pediatric dentistry helps a dentist understand the difference that makes a difference. It is a set of skills, ranging from a manual for...
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Six Sigma tips in Laser Practice Management
A six sigma dental practice applies quality assurance thinking to clinical work. Laser dentistry is expensive for the provider and for the patient, so it...
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Orthotropics: Pre-Braces therapy in young children
Orthotropics for children is growth modification rather than tooth straightening. It guides how the face and jaws develop, and it works best while a child...
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Impact of Cavities in baby teeth on permanent teeth
Decay in baby teeth and permanent teeth are closely connected. An untreated primary tooth can damage the adult tooth forming directly beneath it. One is...
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Butyeko Breathing Training
Buteyko breathing teaches children to breathe through the nose rather than the mouth. Most of us assume breathing needs no attention, yet the act of...
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“Infection in baby tooth”: Treatment Possibilities:
An infected baby tooth can often be saved rather than pulled. That single fact changes the treatment plan for many children in Dubai. How the...
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Baby tooth with Abscess
A baby tooth abscess is an infection that will not clear on its own. Long-standing untreated decay can progress deep into the root canals, and...
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Not known reasons for Cavities in Young Children
The causes of cavities in children go well beyond sweets. Many parents brush diligently and still find decay, which is both confusing and disheartening. Cavities...
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First visit protocol for Children’s Dental appointment
A first dental visit sets the tone for every appointment that follows. The protocol is simple, and it is designed around the child’s age rather...
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How breathing can influence our teeth?
How breathing affects teeth surprises most parents. The natural rhythm for the human body is nasal breathing, yet many children breathe through the mouth instead....
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Cavities in young children’s teeth
Cavities in young children appear surprisingly often despite regular brushing. Parents find this frustrating, and the explanation usually lies in technique rather than effort. Why...
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Lasers in Dentistry – Does the laser really work differently?
Dental lasers have existed for four to five decades. Only in recent years, though, have they become mainstream. This is what they actually do differently....
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