DICE

DICE is an application that will give you guidance in managing dental emergencies and certain medical emergencies in your child as well as give you helpful tips in his/her oral hygiene and diet care to prevent dental decay.

This app includes:

Emergency guidance for unexpected medical emergencies such as
1) Unresponsive child
2) Choking child
3) Unresponsive baby
4) Choking baby

Emergency guidance for certain dental emergencies such as
1) Broken tooth
2) Knocked out tooth
3) Injuries to lip, cheek, tongue
4) Swollen and painful tooth
Toothache without swelling
5) This guide is not meant to replace EMS personnel but will certainly enable you to help child/baby/victim until professional help arrives on the scene

Only the content you need:

This guidance is focused to ensure you can deal with unexpected emergencies quickly, safely and effectively.

Emergency services:

You can save emergency contact numbers of ambulance, nearby dentist and hospital, fire, police, and your family members.

Gum Pad Cleaning:

The app also provides information about Gum Pad Cleaning for the baby.

Prevention of dental injuries:

This app will give you guidance in prevention of dental injuries in infants, toddlers and children.

Oral health care:

1) Diet
It tells you about diet and nutrition for a child as well as a baby. Good food choices for maintaining good oral health. Bad food snacks that can cause dental decay. Answers to frequently asked questions about child’s diet and nutrition. Information about your child’s first dental visit.

2) What will dentist do in your child’s dental visit?

3) Brushing

This application gives you a guidance in proper brushing technique for your child.

4) Gum pad cleaning

Special features:

1) Brushing clock

It is a clock with a timer for that particular duration your child’s teeth should be brushed. The music included with the clock will bring more fun to the daily brushing routine. You can use this clock to encourage your child to brush for 2 minutes daily. After each successful brushing; progress will show with a gift sticker or stars in a calendar.

Tele Consultation:

You can upload a video or click a picture or audio recording of your child’s dental problem and a online consultation will be given to you soon. It comes as a special feature.

Daily health tip:

You will get a daily tip for your child’s oral health care

If you have any problem at all please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]

Created By :
Dr. Uma Dixit, BDS, MS Professor,
Dr. Seema Raina, Former Associate Professor,
Dr. Rucha Bhise-Patil, Post Graduate Student. Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, D Y Patil University School of Dentistry, Nerul, Navi Mumbai.