Be proactive in your child oral health care routine.  Healthy baby teeth will lead to healthy adult teeth and good dental habits. Here are some easy tips on baby dental care.

Tooth Decay in baby teeth can spread to the underlying permanent teeth.

You should take care of your baby teeth and gums even before you baby teeth start coming in. You want to gently cleaning you baby’s gums twice a day. Babies start teething around six months but teething times can vary. Normally the bottom incisors are the first to erupt, with other teeth following after. It is very important to take proper care of your baby teeth. Baby teeth are necessary in development because they aid in chewing, reserve space for permanent teeth, help with speech development, and help the face retain its normal shape.

With the economy going down health experts worry that people are cutting back on their dental work because they do not have the money. One such example would be a woman in Colorado that uses super glue to keep her teeth from falling out. Stating she can not afford dental care and even though she has dental insurance the max limitation is only a $1000 which does not help her on a $8000 plus dental bill. But, because she has dental insurance she is not eligible for dental assistance. There is no question that the economy can be bad for many people. That is why preventive dental care is even more important. So is buying the right dental insurance plan to fit your needs. If you need extensive dental care buying or having a plan that as a low maximum limitation may not make the best sense. Talk to a dentist then talk to a dental insurance agent if you need help finding the right dental insurance plan for you and or your family.

Many people associate bad breath with either foods we consume or bad oral hygiene. Even though a main cause to bad breath odor does comes from food particles trapped in our mouths, bad breath can also be an underlying medical condition of the stomach, lungs and bloodstream.
What can you do to control bad breath issues:

Possible side effect of brushing your teeth with baking soda in order to whiten them.

Maintaining a balanced diet is important to maintaining good oral health.

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Based on studies done women who want to have a baby should make sure they are taking care of their oral health. Research found for the first time from when a woman starts trying to conceive, her chances of falling pregnant can depend on how well she looks after her teeth and gums. That the effect of gum disease on conception is about the same order of magnitude as the effect of obesity.

New research is suggesting that oral health deteriorates during hospitalization and is associated with an increased risk of hospital-acquired infections and reduced quality of life.

How to best brush your baby’s teeth after they start coming in Normally a baby will start teething around six months though can take as long as a year or more. When your child starts to have teeth you will want to look for a baby toothbrush with a small bristle head but still provide for a grip that fits your hand. You will want to brush your baby’s teeth at least twice a day and as long as you are cleaning your child’s teeth regularly toothpaste is not needed until advise by your dentist.

Saliva contains an abundance of proteins that could be used to screen for diseases, particularly oral diseases. Until now, though, studies have only focused on the small subset of free-floating saliva proteins. Far more proteins are present inside of oral cells, and Timothy Griffin, Nelson Rhodus and colleagues developed a method, called three-step peptide fractionation, to look at those understudied proteins. Researchers have developed a novel technique to separate and analyze all the proteins found in human saliva, not just the soluble ones, providing an approach that may reveal protein markers for oral cancer and other disorders in the oral cavity. Source ScienceDaily

Just another reason why preventive dental care is important. Seeing a dentist regularly and taking care of your dental and oral hygiene is always important, but here is another reason that may make you want to go see your dentist.

Links have be found that obesity can effect your oral. According to a recent study it revealed the deeper the periodontal pockets, the higher the proportion of subjects with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or over, which is a figure according to the World Health Organization as generally considered to be obese. In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight.

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Two more small studies have add to strengthen the evidence that links periodontal disease with other health conditions. One Study focused on atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).

In a study to the Identification of unrecognized diabetes and pre-diabetes in a dental setting, published in the Journal of Dental Research, researchers at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine found that dental visits represented a chance to intervene in the diabetes epidemic by identifying individuals with diabetes or pre-diabetes who are unaware of their condition.

People who have Diabetes are at a Higher Risk for Developing Gum Disease

The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a joint program of the CDC and the NIH (National Institutes of Health). The CDC regularly collaborates with a workgroup within NDEP called PPOD (Pharmacy, Podiatry, Optometry, and Dental Professionals). PPOD develops and promotes materials to educate patients and fellow dental professionals on the disease and how to prevent a major complication that often results from having diabetes—periodontal disease.