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Your Child's Teeth:

A Complete Guide for Parents
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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.

Foreword, by Fern Ingber, M.Ed.
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. A Guide to Your Child's Teeth
2. Basic Care and Cleaning
3. The Dental Visit
4. Preventing Decay and Protecting Teeth
5. Affording Dental Care for Your Child
Part II: Ages and Stages
6. Pregnancy and Your Baby's Teeth
7. Infants and Toddlers (Newborn to Age 4)
8. Early Childhood (Ages 5 to 8)
9. Middle Childhood (Ages 9 to 12)
10. Teenagers and Young Adults (Ages 13+)
11. Children with Special Health Needs
Part III: Dental and Oral Health Problems
12. Tooth Decay
13. Gum Disease
14. Tooth Sensitivity and Pain
15. Conditions of the Mouth, Tongue, and Jaw
16. Orthodontics
17. Tooth Appearance
18. Dental Trauma and Emergencies
19. Oral Surgery, Extractions, and Root Canals
20. Dental Anxiety
Appendix: My Child's Dental Health Record
Glossary
Additional Resources
Index

""Although the book has been developed for the American parent... it is relevant to parents within the UK. This is indeed a 'complete' guide.""

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