Read This Before Letting Your Child Floss!
Flossing is an important part of maintaining a healthy mouth for your child, yet a recent study found that only 4 out of 10 Americans floss on a daily basis. Brushing teeth alone only cleans the visible areas and misses out on the spaces between teeth and leaves your...
Tips to Make Your Child (and you!) a Pro Flosser
Flossing removes plaque between the teeth and gum-line where a toothbrush can’t reach. In fact some sources indicate that brushing alone only reaches 35% of your tooth surfaces. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most overlooked practices in caring for our teeth....
These Four Mistakes Are Causing Millions of Preventable Cavities in Kids
No parent wants their child to have cavities and the majority of us take special care to ensure that each dental visit ends cavity-free. Yet, tooth decay remains the most common preventable childhood disease in the U.S. Here are a few simple mistakes that, if...
Make Brushing & Flossing Fun: 4 Ideas that Work.
If your family is anything like ours, bedtime is full of activities winding down one day and preparing for the next. It can be a rush to make certain that homework gets finished, clothes are laid out for the morning, bedtime stories are told and everyone gets tucked...