Helpful TRICKS for TREATING children’s teeth on HALLOWEEN
Sunset Hills, MO, October 18, 2012- Here are a few helpful tricks for treating children’s
teeth this Halloween.
Trick #1
As soon as your monster return home sort
through the candy. Remove candy they don’t really like. Because once the
good candy is gone they will move on to the not so favorite candy- so get rid
of it! The most frightening candy to a kid’s teeth is sour gummy candy. Not
only is it sugary and sticky but the sour flavoring is acidotic, the worse
combination for anyone’s teeth. Kid’s
with braces need to remove these orthodontic nightmares from their pile; caramels,
hard candy, bubblegum, taffy, licorice, candy apples and popcorn. Bring left
over candy to Pediatric Dentistry of
Sunset Hills Candy by Back, on November 1st and 2nd for
$1 per pound (up to 5 lbs.) and then the candy is ship to American troops
overseas. (Last year over 1000 lbs. of candy was donated.)
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Trick #2
Don’t let bags of candy disappear.
Kids love to keep their Halloween candy in their bedroom. This is a big NO-NO. Grazing on candy all day and/or
before bedtime is a cavity waiting to happen. Keep candy where parents can keep
an eye on it. Out of site means out of mind.
Trick #3
Less is more. Take Halloween candy
and put it in smaller bags giving it to kids weekly.
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Trick #4
No Halloween candy in school lunchboxes!
Kids get enough sugar at school with fruit juices and sports drinks and then
they don’t brush until bedtime. That’s at least 8 hours of sugar just sitting
on their teeth. This is SCARIER than HALLOWEEN!
With these four tricks kids will have a
healthier smile this Halloween season and never know they are being tricked. Boo!
Interviews Available with Pediatric Dentists:
Drs. Hollander, Fernandez, Autry or
Brown
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