{"id":3379,"date":"2009-02-03T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:37:37","slug":"cavity-free-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/cavity-free-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavity Free Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today we had our six month dental appointments, and once again we had five cavity free kids. The dentist is always pleasantly surprised when all five kids pass inspection.<\/p>\n

I am not guaranteeing your children will be cavity free if you use my ideas, but it has worked for our family.<\/p>\n

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  1. No soda!<\/strong> Soda is beyond a special treat at our house, it is almost unheard of. Soda has absolutely no health benefits so why introduce it to your children. I had no cavities until I became a soda drinker.<\/li>\n
  2. No juice.<\/strong> I rarely purchase juice, although my children do love it. My little ones never<\/strong> have juice in a sippy cup or bottle. When you are old enough to drink out of a real cup you can have juice, about 4 times a year.<\/li>\n
  3. No gummies, fruit roll-ups, hard candy, and other sticky sweets.<\/strong> I don’t buy them so they don’t eat them. They stick to your children’s teeth and are very difficult for little kids to brush away.<\/li>\n
  4. Cool toothbrushes.<\/strong> This might sound silly but kids really do like to brush more often with the help of Hello Kitty or a Power Ranger.<\/li>\n
  5. Toothpaste they like.<\/strong> Before I would purchase toothpaste that was the least expensive, and sometimes the kids hated the flavor. While I can find their favorites on sale most of the time I will pay full price if necessary, it’s cheaper than a filling.<\/li>\n
  6. Supervision. <\/strong>Kids need help brushing their teeth. Some kids can brush on their own at a young age, but others need help for much longer.<\/li>\n
  7. Reminders.<\/strong> Every morning before school starts they are reminded to brush their teeth after breakfast. If I didn’t remind them sometimes they would forget.<\/li>\n
  8. I<\/strong>ncentive.<\/strong> This may not work for your family or budget but we pay our kids to stay cavity free.<\/strong> For every cavity free visit they are paid $10. This is a lot of money to a six year old. A filling costs us about $35 dollars per tooth, so they are rewarded for being diligent in their brushing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So far our dental visits have been uneventful and profitable for our children. They like going to the dentist and are working hard to earn their $10<\/span> stay cavity free.<\/p>\n

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    Today we had our six month dental appointments, and once again we had five cavity free kids. The dentist is always pleasantly surprised when all five kids pass inspection. I am not guaranteeing your children will be cavity free if you use my ideas, but it has worked for our family. No soda! Soda is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[467,527,784,1440,1672,2555,2569,2697],"class_list":{"0":"post-3379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kids","7":"tag-cavity-free-kids","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-dentist","10":"tag-healthy-teeth","11":"tag-kids-teeth","12":"tag-teeth","13":"tag-the-happy-housewife","14":"tag-visiting-the-dentist","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19304,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/19304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}