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Brush Up on Healthy Teeth: A Quiz for Parents About Simple Steps for Kids’ Smiles
 

Parents play an important role in ensuring that their children have healthy teeth. By taking this quiz published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and reviewing the answers, Head Start parents can learn simple recommendations about tooth brushing and using fluoride in toothpaste, supplements, and/or mouthwash that will help them take simple, important steps to make certain their children have good oral health.

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Brush Up on Healthy Teeth: A Quiz for Parents About Simple Steps for Kids’ Smiles

Learn more about keeping your child’s teeth healthy with this true or false quiz.


1. ____ All children older than 6 months should receive a fluoride supplement every day.

2. ____ Parents should start cleaning their child’s teeth as soon as the first tooth appears.

3. ____ Parents should start brushing their child’s teeth with toothpaste that contains fluoride at age 3.

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Brush Up on Healthy Teeth: A Quiz for Parents About Simple Steps for Kids’ Smiles. HHS/CDC. English. [PDF, 194KB].



Last Updated: May 19, 2009