Is Your Child at Risk for Early Childhood Tooth Decay?
The fact is that the average healthy adult visits the dentist twice a year. Yet the average healthy two-year-old has never been to the dentist, and out of that by the time these kids are in kindergarten, 25 percent of the children have never seen a dentist. With that said, dental decay is still the single most common chronic childhood disease in America.
The reason for this is based on a combination of misinformation about when a child should first visit the dentist, when a parent should start caring for a child’s teeth and the frequent and long-term exposure of sugary liquids to a child’s teeth.