What is the Most Common Chronic Childhood Disease?

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What is the Most Common Chronic Childhood
Disease?
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Asthma?
Allergies?
Diabetes?
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CAVITIES !
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Baby Teeth Are Important!

• Prevent the Spread of Tooth
• Decay in Babies and Young Children

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Children Need Their Baby Teeth to

• Chew and digest food
• Speak clearly
• Smile and feel good
  about how they look
• Save room for their
  permanent teeth
• Last from 6 to 12 years

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White Spots Early and Reversible
Signs of Decay
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What Causes Tooth Decay in Babies and Young
Children?

• Sharing food and eating utensils
• Sharing straws and cups
• Cleaning off pacifier in your mouth

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Then What Happens?
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Toothbrushing
Help your child brush
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Just a Tiny Dab of Fluoride
Toothpaste(the size of a grain of rice)
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FLUORIDE Toothpaste
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NO FLUORIDE
Read the Label!
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• Only Milk or Water in Bottle
• Wean from Bottle by One Year

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Drink and Cook with Tap Water

• Tap Water Contains Fluoride
  
• Most Bottled Water Does Not

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Eat Healthy Snacks

• Fruit
• Vegetables
• Cheese

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Avoid Frequent Sugar Exposure
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First Dental Visit

• When the 1st teeth come in
• Or before age one

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Fluoride Varnish Protects Teeth From Decay

• Easy and Fast
• Tastes Good
• Painless
• Can help reverse white spots so they do not
  become cavities

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Take Good Care of Your Own Teeth, Too!
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REMEMBERBaby Teeth Are Important!
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Adapted from Preventing Baby Bottle Tooth
Decay CA. Dept. of Health Services and Prevent
ing the Spread of Tooth Decay in Babies and
Young Children Alameda County Health
Department Office of Dental Health (2003) by
Linda Giordano Cannon, RDH Alameda County
Health Department Office of Dental Health (2009)