Ways Monitoring Your Child’s Oral Health Helps You, Too
When you’re putting a ton of focus on your child’s oral health, it can be easy to let your smile health take a backseat in order of importance. Of course, the best approach is to ensure the smile health of every member in your family is being taken into consideration. Wondering how to do this, when it feels like there’s just never enough time? Keep in mind that when you brush and floss and focus on smile protection along with your kiddo, you can keep your son or daughter’s smile on track and your own smile on track at the same time! Review our Dallas, TX team’s advice.
Protect Those Little Smiles: Trick Or Treating Tips For Parents!
You already know all about the candies that can pose a potential problem for your kids’ smiles. If it’s super hard, it could crack teeth. If it’s very chewy, it will coat teeth and can dislodge braces. When it comes to selecting treats, rinsing and brushing teeth, and more, you are quickly becoming an expert! However, our Dallas, TX team knows there just might be some other trick-or-treating related details you haven’t quite considered yet, which can lead to oral health damage. Ready to get all geared up to prevent them? Our tips are so easy and will let you breathe a sigh of relief.
Why You Should Definitely Treat That Cavity Before Halloween!
Does your child have a cavity? Do you keep meaning to call us up to schedule your child’s beautiful white dental filling but you manage to forget about it or put it off because you have so many other things to do? While our Dallas, TX team can absolutely comprehend of a very busy schedule, and we know that you know how important addressing decay is, we do have one time-sensitive suggestion for you to keep in mind: Treat that cavity before Halloween! Wondering why we suggest this? Let’s discuss.
Family Hand Washing: 3 Reasons To Start Now!
You have probably heard us mention before that it’s a good idea to wash your hands before you brush and floss your smile. You have probably thought about this before, though it doesn’t mean you’ve necessarily put it into practice. While this is certainly a wise decision any time of year (and all year long), our Dallas, TX team takes this time (as fall has just begun) to remind you. There are a few very compelling reasons to begin washing your hands as a family before your dental hygiene time together (and potentially afterwards, too!).
Hey, That’s Not My Dentist: Who Is It?
When you get used to bringing your children into our practice and you become accustomed to seeing one pediatric dentist, you may find yourself occasionally wondering: Hey! That other person isn’t my dentist but she certainly looks like a dentist. Who is she? This lovely individual you are seeing is none other than our associate Dr. Seo! Did you know that our pediatric dental care practice includes a team of dental professionals who offer the same level of care (if not better, suggests Dr. Marr!) that you are used to when you come in for visits? Learn a bit more about our current and future team, so you can feel just as wonderful as ever about protecting your children’s oral health!
No, You Don’t Have To Pass Dental Anxiety On To Your Kids
Are you extra anxious when it comes to bringing your kids in for dental care (more than you usually are about dentistry) because you’re worried about them picking up on your dental anxiety? Trust us when we say that you’re not the first parent to go through this. Perhaps coming in to our practice causes you to feel quite uneasy! Maybe your main concern is that your child is going to ask you question and you’re accidentally going to respond in the wrong way. Whatever the case, our Dallas, TX team reassures you: You don’t have to pass anxiety on to your kids. How to avoid it? Well, let us help.
Dental Care: Simple, Positive Affirmations To Help Kids Feel Good!
Rest assured, our Dallas, TX team understands that when you’ve spent a lot of time trying to explain to a young child (or a teenager!) about why dental hygiene is so important, it can really take a lot out of you. However, when you give yourself time to rest and recover from what can feel like a battle and you reflect on the fact that your children do brush and floss (even if all does not always go extremely smoothly), you feel much better. You think about the many times you don’t have to go into explain-mode or find yourself suddenly debating the benefits of toothpaste! It is during these lovelier moments when offering your children positive reinforcement for a job well done can provide some serious momentum. Kind words promote happy feelings that give your children the encouragement they love (and that will help them build solid habits over time). Consider some easy yet powerful statements to remember to use when the moment arises!
Help Your Child’s Teeth Grow Super Strong: 3 Things To Know!
What’s the primary thing that you want for your children as you think about their growing smiles (and what you’re hoping to help them achieve by the time they’re adults)? You want them to have strong teeth that stay that way, of course! As with just about all of the other details you’re doing your best to keep up with, there may be times when you stop and ask yourself: Hey, am I doing all of this correctly? Is there something that I’m missing? Not to worry: Our friendly pediatric dental team in Dallas, TX is on hand to quickly walk you through a review of the main guidelines to follow, so your kids’ smiles stay the course!
More Back To School Tips? But Of Course!
Yes, we know that just a quick reminder about back to school isn’t really going to cut it. You need some serious reinforcement and you need it now! Beyond getting fillings completed and checkups and cleanings on the books, you might wonder what to do at home now that it’s not just a fun free-for-all all the time. An actual schedule and some amount of structure must be put back into place to ensure everyone’s smiles are on track, brushed, flossed, healthy, ready for school, ready for bed, and more every day. Phew! Lucky for you, our Dallas, TX team just happens to really love helping out with these oral health details!
Why You Don’t Need To Worry About Anything!
Of course, when you’re doing everything you can to keep your child’s smile health on track, it’s natural for some worry to creep in. You worry about your child developing excellent dental care habits, you worry about your child ending up with a cavity and what that could mean, and when your child shows up with a chipped tooth, you worry about that, too! While we certainly never suggest a lax approach to care, we’d love to take some of the stress off by reminding you that worrying is not necessarily your best solution. Instead, keeping up with the essential services provided at our Dallas, TX practice may be what you need.