Dental problems in children can affect their overall health and well-being. You can help establish good dental habits with your children from an early age.
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Dental problems in children can affect their overall health and well-being. You can help establish good dental habits with your children from an early age.
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Many of the gels, toys or therapies recommended to help kids through teething may be dangerous. So, what's a parent to do?
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If you thought the practice of keeping children's milk teeth is a tad bizarre, you may want to rethink.
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An expert suggests parents should be supervising their child's brushing until at least age six.
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Dentists are pleading with parents to cut the amount of sugar in their children's lunch boxes, as figures show NSW is in the grips of a child tooth decay crisis.
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Researchers have discovered that sugar-free drinks and lollies destroy tooth enamel in children and adults.
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Having six fillings is nothing to be proud of, especially in an age where dental care is so advanced that experts say we should be able to keep perfect teeth for life. So spare a thought - New Zealand Herald
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More pre-schoolers are being hospitalised with dental disease including severe tooth decay than any other age group, and the rate of admissions in New Zealand for all age groups have - New Zealand Herald
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Sugary foods and over-processed carbs take much of the rap for chronic disease and overweight, but here's another casualty that makes fewer headlines – baby teeth. We might live in the age of fluoride and flash cosmetic dentistry, but the latest report card on children's dental health showed a surprising number of little kids with holes in their first teeth. Almost 50 per cent of six-year olds attending school dental services had one or more teeth that was either decayed, missing or had been filled, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Child Dental Health Survey revealed this year.