Three bite-sized tips to help your kids look after their teeth

FEBRUARY is Children’s Dental Health Month.

Little ones sometimes request assistance looking aft their teeth.

So assistance them brushwood up good with these bite-sized tips.

BOP ’N’ BRUSH: Everyone is expected to cleanable their teeth for 2 minutes doubly a time but those 120 seconds tin consciousness similar a agelong time.

Make it amusive without having to walk large money connected a “smart” brush. Try listening to a opus that is 2 minutes agelong to support you and your kids brushing to the end.

Have a hunt connected Spotify for “two-minute songs for brushing teeth” and the “Brush your teeth kids” playlist.

PLAY THE GAME: Make going to the dentist a little scary acquisition by speechmaking representation books to your children to amusement them what to expect. Then effort a roleplay game, taking turns to beryllium the dentist and the patient.

Get kids to effort to number your teeth and you tin bash the same. You tin besides promote them to play dentist with their dolls oregon brushed toys.

Take their favourite books to work successful the waiting country and reward them afterwards with an outing oregon a film nighttime alternatively than a saccharine treat.

Watching a abbreviated movie tin besides instrumentality the fearfulness retired of going to the dentist. There are plentifulness of videos connected YouTube astir getting their teeth checked. Also hunt “kidsvids” astatine the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (bspd.co.uk).

FIND YOUR LEVEL: There look to beryllium endless options erstwhile it comes to choosing toothpaste, adjacent for kids. Unless they person circumstantial dental issues, a modular fluoride paste volition bash the occupation conscionable fine.

Children aged six and nether should usage toothpaste containing astatine slightest 1,000ppm of fluoride. For those 7 and older, purpose for a level of 1,350ppm to 1,500ppm.

You tin get own-brand kids’ toothpastes for fractional the terms of ones by large marque names.

Check the statement for the level of fluoride successful the battalion past cheque the terms per 100ml to snag a bargain.

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