Parents or carers should brush their children’s teeth:• as soon as they erupt• twice a day• last thing at night or before bedtime and on one other occasion• with a toothpaste containing at least 1,000 ppm fluoride• using only a smear of toothpaste
Clinical Recommendation
🏴 England • Public Health England (PHE)
Recommendation Statement
Parents or carers should brush their children’s teeth:• as soon as they erupt• twice a day• last thing at night or before bedtime and on one other occasion• with a toothpaste containing at least 1,000 ppm fluoride• using only a smear of toothpaste
Parents or carers should brush their children’s teeth:
- as soon as they erupt
- twice a day
- last thing at night or before bedtime and on one other occasion
- with a toothpaste containing at least 1,000 ppm fluoride
- using only a smear of toothpaste
Clinical Topics
Keywords
Fluoride
References
Department of Health and Social Care (2021). Dental Caries. Moynihan P, et al. Systematic review of evidence pertaining to factors that modify risk of early childhood caries. Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2019;47(3):217-225.; Tinanoff N, et al. Early childhood caries epidemiology, aetiology, risk assessment, societal burden, management, education, and policy: Global perspective. Int J Paediatr Dent. 2019;29(3):238-248.; Colak H, et al. Early childhood caries update: A review of causes, diagnoses, and treatments. J Nat Sci Biol Med. 2013;4(1):29-38.
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