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Emergency Dental Care for Children

Hopefully this falls into that “Things You Know but Hopefully Never Have to Use” category, but it’s better to be prepared for your child’s dental emergency than to scramble if it actually happens. First and foremost, it’s important to have a family dentist you can trust who also has emergency care after hours for emergency...

7 Reasons You and Your Child Should Get Your Teeth Cleaned

It’s hard to get to the dentist.  There’s no doubt about that.  And without any noticeable pain or discomfort, it’s easy to keep putting it off until absolutely necessary.  In the long run, however, it’s much cheaper – a much less painful – to schedule regular teeth cleaning visits to the dentist than to wait...

Teaching Your Child To Floss

Let’s face it – as adults, we generally don’t floss, despite the constant nagging from our dentists and the guilt-ridden, embarrassed responses we’re forced to give twice a year when the hygienist asks us how often we floss.  And if we don’t floss, how can we possibly expect our children to pick up the habit?...

Fun Videos for Children’s Dental Health Month

We want to help make your efforts to create fresh material for your Dental Health Month presentations easier so we have gathered a few videos that we hope you will find inspiring. Cullen’s ABCs is a top producer of children’s educational videos on Youtube and we are proud to have our StarSmilez products featured in...

February is National Children’s Dental Health Month

Each February marks National Children’s Dental Health Month, a month-long initiative sponsored by the American Dental Association to raise awareness about the importance of oral health for our kids.  In 1949, the event was held on February 8th but quickly became a week-long event in 1955.  Over 2.5 decades later, the program was extended to...

When Should You Make Your Child’s First Dentist Appointment?

The first dentist appointment comes a lot sooner than you might think.  Doesn’t it feel like baby just popped out and now he already has appointments?!  The American Academy of Pediatric Dentists (AAPD) recommends that a childs first dentist appointment be scheduled by age 1 or within 6 months of the first tooth erupting at...