“…In countries with relatively good child dental care system, dentists tended to be the first professionals to discover physical abuse cases, as the most common indicators are located within the mouth and surrounding regions (Laud, Gizani, Maragkou, Welbury, & Papagiannoulis, ). In addition, on the basis of how regularly dental practitioners are in contact with children and their families, they are in a favourable position to observe abnormal child–parent behaviour and to identify and report suspected cases of child maltreatment (Al‐Jundi, Zawaideh, & Al‐Rawi, ).…”