SPECIALIST DOCTOR IN MALAD-MUMBAI AT DR. TAWARI CLINIC

Diet counselling for children is a process that helps children and their parents make healthy food choices and develop healthy eating habits. It can help prevent cavities and other health issues. We assess a child’s current dietary habits, health status and nutritional needs and work with the child and their parents to set realistic goals.

There are certain negative or undesirable habits in children such as thumb sucking, nail biting, tongue thrusting or lip sucking which causes dental and jaw abnormalities. Habit correction includes implementing positive strategies to encourage better habits and address the underlying reasons behind the unwanted behaviour; this often involves a combination of gentle reminders, positive reinforcement, identifying triggers and providing alternative coping mechanisms. In certain severe habits, we often have to give an appliance to child for which we have an expert collaborative team of a pediatric dentist and an orthodontist