The Holidays are here. Sweets abound. We know you want to give your kids, grand kids, nieces, and nephews everything they deserve. They don’t, however, deserve cavities.

• Stuff stockings with toothbrushes, floss aids, and cute water bottles.
• Put a waterpik Water Flosser under the tree.
• Consider a power toothbrush – Oral B, Sonicare, Quip as a gift for the kids

We can’t stop kids from eating sweets. but we can encourage them to:

• Drink water
• Swish spit (or swallow) after consuming sweets
• Snack on healthy foods – nuts, veges, fruit, white cheese
• Have sugar-free gum on hand for after snack times when brushing and flossing is not possible

Tips on having handy healthy snacks available may include:

• Preparing celery sticks, carrot sticks, fruit into pieces and having them in small bags in the refrigerator where the kids can easily gram them.
• Buying nuts in bulk and putting them in small containers for kids to grab on the go
• Cutting white cheese (known to protect teeth from tooth decay) into small squares and placing in a container or bag for kids to grab.

Health teeth. Health body. Healthy Holiday Season.

You can also click here to read a Centers for Disease Control article about children’s oral health.