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What can we say about this person? We can see them differently, as we can see them as the same as us, they are happy, they smile all the time, they have no malice, is it innocence or is this person the noblest human beings that exist, they always want to make friends , but because they are different, they are sometimes rejected. We must find a way so that children do not see them as if they were strange or strange, but rather they see them as different children, but that does not mean that they are not the same as you in terms of functioning. .

You can tell many anecdotes, when on one occasion we went with the faculty we were looking at the subject of pediatric dentistry, among its objectives was the treatment of dentists to special patients with mental retardation, any type of hereditary or congenital pathology of course was for us to live experience, but to be able to care for this type of patient you must be a pediatric dentist, since you have the psychological tools to be able to master and care for that patient.

Who has quite poor hygiene because sometimes many of them have limitations at the motor level and it is very difficult for them to pick up the brush, perform a good technique, therefore, they are prone to a lot of gingivitis, plaque accumulation, therefore, they have periodontitis mobility in the pieces and therefore the fall of them, we try as much as possible to ensure that parents with children with this syndrome come to the ontological consultation at least three times a year due to this particularity.

How we treat these children during the consultation, we try as much as possible to speak clearly to them. They are very intelligent children, but like everyone else, they are afraid of strangers, and even more so in a sensitive area such as the mouth, and they tend to try to defend themselves against Open your mouth to think that we were going to hurt them or it is going to hurt them. In reality, they do not behave that differently from a child of the same age, therefore, you have to have a long consultation and a first adjustment if possible until two adaptation steps so that he can establish trust with the professional and be able to let the dentist work.

Now in my experience I tend to be quite open and empathetic with patients who we could say are different because from a very young age they have always made me feel different. They have always seen me as strange whether it was when I held my pencil with my left hand or either when they looked at me and they told me that I had different eyes and a very different skin color than the common people from where I was, that made me attract a lot of attention, they always looked at me as if I were someone strange to the environment, that's why I really understand that part of those inquisitive looks about what is different.

Remember, there was an opportunity in kindergarten and we had to do a task. The girl next to my classmate was a little indiscreet when she saw me take the pencil with a different hand and in a different position and told me, oh, you are strange because you write like that. of course in the midst of her innocence, well not understood why I wrote with the opposite hand of course we cannot compare it with Down syndrome, but it is the same feeling of seeing you as strange to pointing out to you that look she writes ugly and writes badly and So I understood a lot what bothered them, it hurt them, sometimes they could become aggressive because like every human being they tend to defend themselves and that's where the problems come.

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Well, then today, March 21, we celebrate Down syndrome day, there are educational talks regarding the treatment of these patients, there are countless activities in those special schools where they share, it is simply one more chromosome, one more burden. of love, one more load of innocence of tenderness, I think they are like Angels because they come to teach us so many things, to tell us that the world does not have a single face, that the world has many edges and it depends on the lens with which you see it, you are going to be happy.

Although today is celebrated as Down syndrome day, I believe that it is rather a day to raise awareness among everyone around the people who suffer from them, it is not their fault that they are angels on earth.