Why should dental practices that treat children keep them visually separated from prospective consultation patients? Because the prospective consultation patient is taking in everything around them, consciously and unconsciously, and a noisy or visible child population disrupts the calm environment that the consultation depends on. People love their own children and grandchildren. Few people enjoy the children of strangers when those children are loud or moving fast through a waiting area where the adult is trying to make a major dental decision. The visual and auditory cues raise stress, distract the prospect, and degrade the impression the practice is trying to [...]

Why should dental practices that treat children keep them visually separated from prospective consultation patients? Because the prospective consultation patient is taking in everything around them, consciously and unconsciously, and a noisy or visible child population disrupts the calm environment that the consultation depends on. People love their own children and grandchildren. Few people enjoy the children of strangers when those children are loud or moving fast through a waiting area where the adult is trying to make a major dental decision. The visual and auditory cues raise stress, distract the prospect, and degrade the impression the practice is trying to [...]

Why should dental practices that treat children keep them visually separated from prospective consultation patients? Because the prospective consultation patient is taking in everything around them, consciously and unconsciously, and a noisy or visible child population disrupts the calm environment that the consultation depends on. People love their own children and grandchildren. Few people enjoy the children of strangers when those children are loud or moving fast through a waiting area where the adult is trying to make a major dental decision. The visual and auditory cues raise stress, distract the prospect, and degrade the impression the practice is trying to [...]