Your Child's Teeth

Childrens dental health involves much more than a toothbrush. Dental disease is the number one chronic childhood illness, and avoiding dental disease involves comprehensive dental care.In Your Childs Teeth, consumer health authors Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss team up with pediatric dental and oral health experts and the National Childrens Oral Health Foundation to answer hundreds of questions about childrens teeth. Topics include how thumb sucking and pacifiers affect teeth how to brush your young childrens teeth how to calm a child who is afraid of the dentist how to help special needs children get proper dental care how medical problems affect teeth how fluoride rinses and dental sealants work how a root canal is done how to make the orthodontia decisionTheis book will help parents help children develop good dental habits for a lifetime of healthy teethfrom babys first tooth to leaving for college.