/your-dental-exam-continues/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 /your-dental-exam-continues/#comment-144 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:23:51 +0000 /?p=315#comment-144 Physicians, nurses, dnstiets, dental hygienists and other health care professionals carry the enormous responsibility of promoting and protecting the public’s health. Health professionals take this responsibility seriously and understand that oral health is an essential component to overall health. Almost half of all children (40%) will have dental decay, a disease caused by a bacterial infection, before they reach kindergarten. This disease can easily be prevented by ensuring that when kids visit their pediatricians or dnstiets for preventive visits they receive a fluoride treatment.Fluoride varnish is a safe and effective measure that prevents disease by protecting teeth from bacteria. Often kids see pediatricians earlier than dnstiets so applying fluoride treatments at their offices makes perfect sense. By ensuring that kids and their parents have the opportunity to elect this treatment in dental and medical offices, we are fulfilling an obligation that all of us in health care as well as those that are concerned with the well being of children are passionate about …improving health.

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