Carving Pumpkins, dressing up in costumes, collecting free candy: there is no mystery why Halloween is a favorite time of the year for the kids. There is no need to spoil the fun worrying about letting your children have candy as long as you follow these few simple tips to keeping your children’s teeth healthy and cavity free! The American …
What Foods are Good for Teeth?
Good habits are important, especially for children. The habits we help form for our children can carry with them through their teenage and adult years. What foods are good for our children’s teeth? What foods should be consumed sparingly? Good for Teeth Carrots– Yes, it’s true carrots also contain beta-carotene. The body converts beta-carotene into vitamin A. One …
Snacks That Damage Your Kids’ Teeth
Every parent wants their child to live a healthy lifestyle, typically involving exercise, proper sleep and of course, a nutritious diet. However, many foods that are marketed as “healthy” are actually damaging your children’s teeth. So before you switch out all the junk food for healthy snacks, read about the following tooth-damaging foods: Dried Fruit Dried fruit needs to be …
Healthy Snacks for Healthy Teeth
Kids love snacks, especially those full of sugar, salt, starch and other unhealthy ingredients. Not only are these snacks unhealthy for a child’s overall health, they can also cause major damage to their teeth. Snacks like cookies, candies, juice, potato chips and pretzels can all lead to tooth decay, especially when teeth are not brushed thoroughly. Fortunately, there are various …
Medford Pediatric Dentists Suggest How to prevent your child from sucking their thumb
It’s a fairly common occurrence among toddlers and young children, especially during times of stress. Thumb-sucking can be a calming mechanism. Most of the time, this habit tends to go away by the age of 4 or so. Still, every parent should be up to the challenge of helping their child not suck on their digits, for a variety of …
Good Habits Start Young
Whether they be good or bad, habits can develop early on in young children and stay with them for a long time. When it comes to brushing, habits can make the difference between keeping and losing their teeth. Contrary to common belief, habits can take much more than 21 days to develop. Research says it can take anywhere from 18 …
Bringing Your Children’s Grinding to a Halt
While bruxism, a condition more commonly referred to as grinding your teeth, is not a problem exclusively for young brushers, approximately 33% of all children suffer from grinding their teeth too much. Throughout the article we will discuss some of the reasons why children start to grind their teeth and what parents can do to help bring the grinding habit …
Five Habits That May Wreck Your Teeth
Unlike our bones or skin, our teeth do not have regenerative powers and cannot grow back together if broken or chipped. Every day we do things that potentially put our teeth in danger. Many of these practices are habits we have acquired over time even though our parents told us not to do them. The tables have turned and now …