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What is the What is the Most Common Most Common Chronic Chronic Childhood Childhood Disease? Disease?

What is the Most Common Chronic Childhood Disease?

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What is the Most Common Chronic Childhood Disease?. Asthma ?. Allergies?. Diabetes ?. CAVITIES !. Baby Teeth Are Important!. Prevent the Spread of Tooth Decay in Babies and Young Children. Children Need Their Baby Teeth to:. Chew and digest food Speak clearly - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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What is the Most What is the Most Common Chronic Common Chronic

Childhood Childhood Disease?Disease?

AsthmaAsthma??

Allergies?Allergies?

DiabetesDiabetes??

CAVITIES !CAVITIES !

Baby Teeth Are Baby Teeth Are Important!Important!

Prevent the Prevent the Spread of ToothSpread of Tooth

Decay in Decay in Babies and Babies and

Young ChildrenYoung Children

Children Need TheirChildren Need Their Baby Teeth to: Baby Teeth to:

Chew and digest foodChew and digest food Speak clearlySpeak clearly Smile and feel good Smile and feel good

about how they lookabout how they look Save room for their Save room for their

permanent teeth permanent teeth Last from 6 to 12 yearsLast from 6 to 12 years

White Spots: White Spots: Early and Early and Reversible Reversible

Signs of DecaySigns of Decay

What Causes Tooth Decay What Causes Tooth Decay in Babies and Young in Babies and Young

Children?Children? Sharing food and Sharing food and

eating utensils eating utensils

Sharing straws Sharing straws and cupsand cups

Cleaning off Cleaning off pacifier in your pacifier in your mouthmouth

ThenThen WhatWhat Happens?Happens?ThenThen WhatWhat Happens?Happens?

ToothbrushingToothbrushing:: Help your Help your child child brushbrush

Just a Just a Tiny DabTiny Dab of of Fluoride ToothpasteFluoride Toothpaste

(the size of a grain of rice)(the size of a grain of rice)

FLUORIDE ToothpasteFLUORIDE Toothpaste

NO FLUORIDENO FLUORIDE

Read the Read the LabelLabel!!

Only Only Milk Milk or or Water Water in in BottleBottle

Wean from Wean from Bottle Bottle by by One YearOne Year

Drink and Cook with Drink and Cook with Tap Water Tap Water

Tap Water Tap Water Contains Contains FluorideFluoride

Most Bottled Most Bottled Water Does Water Does NotNot

Eat Healthy SnacksEat Healthy Snacks

FruitFruit VegetablesVegetables CheeseCheese

Avoid Frequent Sugar ExposureAvoid Frequent Sugar Exposure

First Dental VisitFirst Dental VisitWhen the When the 1st teeth 1st teeth come in come in

Or before Or before age oneage one

Fluoride Varnish Protects Fluoride Varnish Protects Teeth From DecayTeeth From Decay

Easy and FastEasy and Fast Tastes GoodTastes Good PainlessPainless Can help Can help

reverse white reverse white spots so they spots so they do not become do not become cavitiescavities

Take Good Care of Take Good Care of Your Own Teeth, Your Own Teeth,

Too!Too!

REMEMBER:REMEMBER:

Baby Teeth Are Baby Teeth Are Important!Important!

Adapted from: “Preventing Baby Bottle Tooth

Decay” CA. Dept. of Health Services

and“Preventing the Spread of Tooth

Decay in Babies and Young Children”

Alameda County Health Department Office of Dental Health

(2003)by :

Linda Giordano Cannon, RDHAlameda County Health Department

Office of Dental Health(2009)