To coincide with Children’s Dental Health Month, we asked registered dental hygienist Anaid Deti to share her best oral hygiene tips for kids from babies to teens.
Oral hygiene is a priority the moment your baby is born (yes, even before they have teeth!) and it’s important to create a...
Start your child off with good dental habits—even before a tooth makes its grand appearance—to help keep their teeth healthy, strong and protected for decades to come.
Teeth-cleaning foods? Yep, you read that right. But it's not just about foods that "brush" your teeth, read on to find out how common lunch box items can help protect your kid's pearly whites, too.
As a parent, I believe helping our children to have a lifetime of
healthy oral care habits is a duty and it is important for us to give
our children the appropriate and best tool for it. Using this effective
Philips Sonicare for Kids will help our children to easily and
enthusiastically brush their teeth.
You make sure your kids brush on a regular basis, avoid sticky candy and rinse their mouths with water after eating sugary treats if they can’t brush their teeth. You even wrangle with those little kid-friendly flossers from time to time. Is there anything else you could be doing...
Almost all decay can be prevented, although some children are more susceptible than others.
The surfaces of the teeth are sites for continual deposits of plaque. Plaque consists of a combination of bacteria and salivary proteins which stick to the teeth. The bacteria in plaque ferment and produce acids...
Oral cleansing may begin even before your baby's teeth start to erupt. Wipe the gums with a clean piece of gauze after each bottle or breast feeding. This not only cleans the mouth, but it accustoms your baby to oral cleaning procedures at an early age.
The change from...
Fluoride works in two ways. It can be incorporated into tooth enamel while the tooth is developing deep in the jaw bone, such as through fluoridated water, or by topical application to the erupted tooth crown, such as with fluoridated toothpaste.
Sources of fluoride include:
Municipal water...
