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A- Environmental Factors:
Unconfirmed information of our children from school and its vicinity along with parents
B- False Experiences 
Monitoring child in inappropriate conditions in regard with implementations of dentist services and paving the way for children without making any explanation:
1- Child’s living an experience which he will never forget or he has underwent with dentists who are not harmonious with child’s psychology
2-Paediatric dentistry; Specialists or desirous dentists who have combined affection and patience and have taken this relevant training with location, decoration, music and personnel suitable with children psychology deal with this job.
3-Treatment should never be started in children’s first visit; only getting to know processes, environment and getting to know families and warm and affectionate welcoming should be prepared and they should never be forced for treatments. Treatments and controls to be conducted should be told to children superficially but families should be told in each detail. It must be kept away all behaviours which will cause children to be under fear and they should be played around with object which shall attract their attention and environment should be playful.
4-Sessions should be kept short during treatments because child’s keeping his mouth open without any fear is not long standing. To start these short sessions with the easiest and the most pain-free procedures shall elicit confidence and consolidate relationship which he is maintaining with dentist. In this way, our children will rush to dentist for their own demands.
C- Family Factors
In childhood education, Turkish families enable their children do what they want by scaring them. This method is quite wrong. For example, do not mischief, otherwise dentist will inject you; I will have you extracted your teeth, doctor will inject you and so forth. Transforming relationship of mouth-tooth health and dentist-patient  of children into normal conditions lasts hard and long. Sometimes, there are incidences of failure of relationship of dentist-children. Mouth and tooth treatments of these children in these conditions can be provided by being anaesthetized in surgery with very special methods (general anaesthesia) or sedation. This environment is presented as a last resort by families and dentists. After other resorts have not been found and all opportunities have been tried, aim in this method is to organize mouth and tooth health, to get rid of common decays, abscess and inflammation affecting general constitution of body and to finalize treatment without creating psychological permanent fears since child will not remember conducted operations.
Firstly, families should tell their children that what they have witnessed or they have heard unconfirmed information is not related with them specifically by giving right information. Fears which environmental, family and wrong experiences reveal must be based on reasonable basis. These should be explained by dentist in a clear and lovely way because children will be with these dentists in long years and especially between 4-16 years.
Overcoming this fear in children as secondarily:
This can be achieved by efforts of enthusiastic and specialist dentists equipped with location, music, trained personnel, and patient, affectionate and modern dentistry in harmony with individuals.
These are general rules of child’s mouth and tooth health. Even we, as adults, have still fears due to one or few bad memories about aforementioned issues in our past. We cannot count number of sleepless nights by not making it treated and we have difficulty in meals with empty spaces of our teeth which we have extracted or covered without any delay. Or at least we may have one or few fillings in our mouth in which we have been really forced. Our most chewing and digestion problems have turned out to be gastric diseases due to these causes. Families and dentists can solve these problems patiently and successfully within a specific period.
Dr.Mehmet Ali Özer
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