Continuing Education (CE)

Highchair Dental Care: A Revolutionary Practice Model for Infants and Toddlers. This is an age-appropriate oral health care model that identifies the opportunity to promote healthy behaviors at the point of care.

The purpose of the course is to share this alternative way of rendering care with dental health professionals to, (1) help encourage more dental providers to endear the 1-year-old patient, and (2) to empower dentists and dental hygienists with the most applicable and useful resources to do so. This unique practice of dentistry is designed to excite more parents to decisively identify a dental home for their new baby by or before age one.

Highchair Dental Care provides an optimistic and insightful approach to infant and family oral health care. It teaches dental professionals an alternative way to treat children beginning as early as 8 months of age, while at the same time providing educational content to parents and caregivers. The Highchair Dental Care environment creates a welcoming opportunity to discuss not only the child’s health, but that of the caregiver and the family. Oral health practices and diet behaviors of the family are discussed in this comfortable atmosphere. The highchair provides the safety and security needed to conduct the proper infant oral exam. It affords the infant their first dental examination in a conducive atmosphere, one that is familiar to them, which a traditional dental chair cannot.

Strategies that engage a child’s natural inclination to open their mouth, to laugh or to eat is a part of the course instruction. By placing the baby in a highchair, they are comfortable and usually willing to open-wide for their first oral examination, dental cleaning and or fluoride application. This practice model is a child-friendly approach to patient care that works well with most infants.

The Highchair Dental Care Practice Model introduces another emerging standard of care to support infant oral health. It helps to draw attention to the importance of health care innovation and early interventions to prevent Early Childhood Caries and other potential unfavorable sequelae.

Workshop Activities & Motivational Games
now available during in-person
Highchair Dental Care
course presentations!!

To take the online Highchair Dental Care® course immediately, link to the American Dental Association at Highchair Dental Care: A Revolutionary Practice Model for Infants and Toddlers.

Read more about this revolutionary practice model in the December 13th edition of the ADA News.

To schedule an in-person Highchair Dental Care lecture and receive supporting product giveaways, (while supplies last) send an email to wbcohi@gmail.com.