Stay void-free with advice on Dental Health Month

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By Wendy L Published February 17, 2015

Keep your children and your pet's teeth with tips without cavity February Pet Dental Month and National Dental Health Month!

A healthy mouth is a happy mouth and to help everyone (including animals) hold without a cavity are tips to follow in February National Pet Dental Month and dental health month.

Poor oral hygiene in humans and animals can lead to serious health problems. For dogs and cats, it can make your life that periodontal disease may shorten contribute to heart problems, liver and kidneys.

Also, would a regular visit to the dentist for a checkup and cleaning, here's what you do in between visits.

For Babies and Children

• Avoid cleaning the pacifier with your own saliva or sharing utensils. Cavity-causing bacteria transmitted by saliva.
• Start cleaning your baby's mouth during the first days after birth to rub the gums with a clean, damp washcloth or gauze.
• Begin brushing from the first tooth grows.
• Toothpaste with Fluoride with children under three years exceeds an amount the size of a grain of rice twice a day (morning and evening). Children 3-6 years old, an amount the size of a pea dental use fluoride toothpaste.
• Help the children to brush their teeth until you feel comfortable that your child to paint on your own.
• If children have two teeth touch, start the daily dental thread.
• Remember that children who regularly drink fluoridated bottled water or tap water can the benefits of fluoride, which helps the enamel more resistant to caries and miss the healing of the weakened tooth enamel.
• Avoid placing pacifier in sugar, honey, juice or soda. It can lead to tooth decay.

The ADA recommends that the first visit to the dentist is within six months after the first tooth appears, but no later than the first birthday.

Pets

• Brush between teeth, around, or at least to prevent tartar along the gumline every day several times a week.
• Pets can brush resist - it requires patience and training.
• Talk to your veterinarian about dental products, sweets, or specific recommendations dental insurance.
• Avoid dental products xylitol. It is highly questionable toxic for dogs and cats
• Human toothpaste you do not use, clean teeth and gums pets.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), Eighth said for signs of dental disease in animals such as red swollen gums yellow or brown tartar on the teeth, bad breath, bleeding from the mouth, repeated rubbing or scratching the face and / or mouth, chewed abnormal salivation, or refuses to eat food from the mouth or - for example, collect and spat.

AVMA recommends the teeth and gums of the animals at least once a year by your veterinarian to check the first sign of a problem.

[Source: healthy mouth by the American Dental Association , the American Veterinary Medical Association , North Shore Animal League America .]

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