Dental Care for Infants
Anticipatory Guidance

It is defined as a proactive counseling of parents and patients about developmental changes that will occur in the interval between health supervision visits that includes information about daily caretaking specific to that upcoming interval.² The infant compared to a school aged child, lives in a broader, more complex world and treatment and prevention needs to be tailored to that specific child.

The counseling should include:

• Addressing protective factors to prevent oral health problems
• Oral hygiene
• Dietary counseling
• Fluoride
• Oral growth and development issues
• Oral/non-nutritive habits (pacifier use)
• Acute dental trauma/injury prevention