Fun Flossers are perfect for teaching kids the importance of keeping teeth healthy.
Halloween is a much-anticipated night for just about every candy-loving youth. But as children dream of Skittles, Snickers and Starbursts, parents worry about the negative effects of all that candy on their children’s health – especially their teeth.
This year, teach your kids what sugar does to their teeth and show them easy ways to stay healthy. Use colorful, made-for-kids tools like DenTek Fun Flossers to make oral care fun as well as educational. With their wild fruit flavors and wacky colors, they fit right into the Halloween theme. After Halloween is over they’re still a great incentive to keep the flossing habit going.
Here are five more tips to prevent a scary post-Halloween smile:
- Educate yourself on which candies are most harmful to your children’s teeth, and limit after-dinner stash looting to just 2 pieces of candy.
- Give the extra-sticky candies to charities like the Halloween Candy Buyback program. They pay a dollar a pound for candy and send it to our troops overseas.
- Encourage kids to drink water throughout the day, especially after eating candy, to help rinse away sugars between brushings.
- Make sure your children brush and floss after every meal and every candy stash raid.
- Teach children to floss daily with Fun Flossers! Follow the flossing instructions below.
Flossing Instructions: Hold flosser firmly between thumb and index finger. Using a gentle back-and-forth motion, slide floss between teeth. Move up & down against tooth to clean above & below the gum line. Repeat steps for each tooth. Discard after use.
Halloween is a fun holiday. Parents and children shouldn’t have to worry about scary tooth decay. By practicing good oral hygiene, kids can have fun and still enjoy the candy! Click here for more information on Fun Flossers or to show your children an instructional flossing video.
Happy Halloween from DenTek!
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