Your office becomes a 'tooth shop' where you help every smile stay strong. Even the drill becomes friendly.
How this is different: This isn't a book where your child pretends to be a dentist. It's the book where your child finally understands what you actually do.
Most kids only know dentists from their own checkups. This personalized children's book flips it — your child gets to see what it's like to BE the dentist, going through a real day with patients of every age, in language a preschooler can follow.
What dentists actually do all day
See patients on a tight schedule, one chair at a time
Check every tooth and read X-rays for problems that don't hurt yet
Fill, clean, or repair — carefully and in a small space
Teach people how to keep it from happening again
How to explain a dentist's job to a child
If your child is 3 or 4
Dentists take care of teeth. They count them, clean them, and fix the tiny holes that sugar bugs make, so your mouth stays strong enough to chew everything you love.
If your child is 5 to 7
A dentist checks teeth and gums, uses X-rays to see problems hidden inside a tooth, and repairs damage before it starts to hurt. They also teach patients how to prevent the next cavity.
The tools kids find interesting
Mirror and explorer
X-ray machine
Dental chair and light
Drill and filling material
Loupes
What a child would notice at a dentist's work
A parent working in a space the size of a mouth
Patients who are nervous walking in and relieved walking out
Gloves changed between every person
What kids learn from a WorkTale Book Company book about dentists
What dentists do besides cleaning teeth
Why visiting the dentist is a good thing
How teeth actually work
Why mom or dad cares so much about brushing
Frequently asked questions
I'm an orthodontist / oral surgeon / pediatric dentist — same book?
Yes, with your specialty reflected. A pediatric dentist's book is about treating kids; an oral surgeon's is about more complex procedures, kept age-appropriate.
I'm a dental hygienist — do you have that profession?
Yes — we have a dental-hygienist variant. Reach out and we'll point you to it.
Will it make my kid scared of the dentist?
The opposite. Parents tell us this book actually makes dentist visits easier for their kids.
Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.