Posts Tagged ‘baby teeth’
“Dental Care By One” Campaign Launches to Address Children’s Dental Health Problems
With children’s dental health becoming a major health issue, Smile4Life has launched a campaign to get more young children to see the dentist early in their life. Known by the name “Dental Care by One” or #DCby1, the national framework will be there to encourage parents and guardians to take their children to the dentist […]
New Survey Reveals Half Of Children Do Not See A Dentist Regularly
A new survey has revealed that half of children in the UK do not see a dentist on a regular basis. The survey, which was conducted by Mintel and involved 2,000 parents, found that half of children do not go for regular dental check-ups and only 57 per cent of parents supervise their children to […]
Brush Baby Win 2011 Innovation Award
We all know the importance of a baby’s oral health, especially when their teeth start to come through. One mother has taken her child’s oral health into her own hands and started her own company to focus on the oral health of babies. Dominique Tillen founded Brush Baby in 2008 after being inspired to improve […]
Night time bottle feeding linked to decay amongst young children
Dental professionals are urging parents to stop bottle feeding babies and young children at bed time. Professor Richard Widmer, from the Children’s Hospital in Westmead, Sydney, said that bottle feeding is contributing to a rise in tooth decay amongst young children because lactose in milk combines with the plaque in the baby’s mouth and causes […]
American programme to offer mothers oral advice
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has teamed up with the text4baby scheme to offer oral advice to mothers of young children. The text4baby programme is run by the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) and sends out texts to mothers who partake in the programme, providing advice which is estimated for their specific due date or […]
Doctors find tooth lodged in former miner’s ear
Doctors have been left mystified after finding a tooth lodged in a man’s ear. Stephen Hirst, an ex-miner, suffered from excruciating earache for 33 years and was partially deaf because a tooth was lodged in his ear canal, it has been revealed. The 47 year old also suffered severe headaches and was unable to sleep […]
Relief for patient who finally has a full set of teeth at the age of 28
Emily Cheeseman finally has something to smile about, at the age of 28. Emily had a full set of baby teeth when she was a child; however, she was left with six milk teeth because the adult teeth, which should have replaced them, failed to grow due to a condition known as hypodontia. Emily, now […]
Review criticises care of dead dentist phobic girl
A review has revealed that the care of a girl who died because of her phobia of dentists lacked clarity. Sophie Waller, eight from Cornwall, died after she refused eat, drink and sleep when her baby teeth began to come loose. Despite having eight teeth removed under general anaesthetic in November 2005 she died four […]
Toothless one-year-olds likely to need braces
A new study has revealed that children with few teeth by age one are more likely need braces in later life. Researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland and two British universities claimed that there is a link between the later emergence milk teeth and the need for future orthodontic work. The boffins found […]
Prevent baby bottle tooth decay
An association has issued some recommendations to help parents care for their baby’s new teeth. The American Dental Association has claimed that sweetened liquids like juices, formula and even some milks can harm a young child’s oral health because sugary substances can stick to gums and damage new soft emerging teeth. It has issued a […]
