We partnered with Crest and Oral-B to share how you can encourage and motivate your family to build your own teeth-brushing routine and pledge to Conquer Cavities 2Gether. As a millennial mom, I can’t ...

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Good oral hygiene has to start early. You need to teach your kids how to brush their teeth when teeth first begin to appear. You also need to reiterate healthy habits as they grow to keep teeth in ...

Ask the Pediatrician: How can parents teach kids to properly brush their teeth? (ATTENTION EDITORS: 1 photo accompanies this column. FILENAME: LIFE-HEALTH-PEDIATRICIAN-QA-DMT.jpg) Q: Teaching my ...

Brushing a young child's teeth is not the easiest task. Many kids will do everything in their power to avoid the toothbrush, from running away to tears and tantrums. One mom on TikTok—who happens to ...

Bedtime at the Johnson household has turned into a nightly battleground, and the weapon of choice is a tiny toothbrush. Like many parents of toddlers, Sarah Johnson finds herself dreading the moment ...

LOWELL — The effects of COVID-19 are being seen in the mouths of babes. Children have 20 primary or “baby” teeth by age 3. And any one of them can get a cavity if daily dental hygiene isn’t practiced ...

The twice-a-day struggle is all too real for many parents. Getting kids to brush their teeth properly can be both a headache and an anxiety-inducing dilemma because it’s hard to know whether children ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. First, a confession: When my parents sent me off to brush my teeth at 7 or 8 years old, I would sometimes run the water in the sink, rub a dab of ...