At 5-year-olds - the epidemic of dental caries

In relatively prosperous Britain more than a million children under five years already have two or more fillings in the teeth. This is due to the fact that parents can not teach kids to brush their teeth.

As reported by the Office for National Statistics, the UK, more than a million children under 5 years dentists have found two or more holes in the teeth caused by caries Which required the installation of seals. Experts attribute this directly with poor oral hygiene among children. For example, a quarter of the mothers surveyed in a recent study said that their kids brush their teeth only once a day. And half of all mothers find it too stressful procedure.

As a result, every sixth child of three or more seals, and almost half the children under the age of 12 suffer from caries . The majority of mothers, by their own admission, are well aware of the fact that children are lying to them about brushing. But mothers prefer to leave the situation as it is, because the coercion is anguish, like women themselves, and children.

Here mummies exhibit remarkable shortsightedness. The less their kids brush their teeth, the more often they visit the dentist. A chat with the doctor is the most traumatic ordeal for a child from all the other doctors. I do not feel less stress and mothers, who have to keep crying kids in the dentist chair, as he wielded a drill.

Perhaps because of this, 20% of mothers of two years and longer wait between maintenance visits the kids to the dentist. Which again leads to the opposite result. After less than a dentist sees the child, the more work with the children's teeth, then it will perform. And the more traumatic memories will be about it.

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