but sometimes parents don't get a choice in who a child sees. Medicaid dentists are an example. My daughter encountered this with a couple of the stepkids--they were assigned to a dentist they hated but they didn't get a choice about it, and she wasn't allowed in the room. Period. Fortunately one of them is extremely (and I do mean extremely!) outspoken and she would raise hell if anyone tried something like this with her, even at the age of 9. I wonder if this dentist was a Medicaid assignment.
The point of the article, however, is that the dentist was using an outmoded and discredited technique on the girl that he shouldn't have been using. A little nitrous oxide and novocaine would have been the proper option, not restraining and clamping a hand over the child's mouth. That was just cruelty. I had a childhood dentist who didn't believe in numbing kids ("They're afraid of needles and it would hurt"
and as a result I still have dental phobia. It takes everything I have to visit the dentist, even one I trust.
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