Dental prevention




Your child's dental visit is a great place to continue to form healthy habits.  However, your dentist can’t protect your child’s teeth all by themselves. In order to have a healthy mouth it requires work at home, and brushing and flossing your son/daughter’s teeth twice a day is a great place to start.  There are some other important factors to healthy teeth besides just brushing and flossing.

Did you know: Foods high in carbohydrates cause an increase in tooth decay?

Carbohydrates, sugar and foods high in starch actually sit on your child’s teeth longer. These foods not only stick to their teeth, but they decrease the amount of saliva production in the mouth. “The more saliva the more food is naturally removed from the enamel on the teeth,” says, Dr. Cameron Fuller.

Dental visits are critical to overall mouth health and they keep your child’s smile shining bright. Dr. Fuller, a pediatric dentist in Redlands, California, recommends you do not skip these visits because it provides an important routine for your child at a young age. It helps reinforce the importance of visiting the dentist on a regular basis. It also promotes a positive relationship between the dentist and your children.  These visits can also help the dentist and his team catch any problems early on instead of waiting until a toothache to take care of a situation.

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  1. UnknownJune 11, 2014 at 6:13 AM

    That little fact is an awesome one to drop on my patients! I don't think many of them would really know about the carbs and increasing tooth decay.As a Park Ridge dentist , I have lot of patients who already try to avoid carbs so this will only encourage them.

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