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  • Your Child’s First Toothbrush
    First word, first step, first haircut, first… toothbrush? While it may not be considered a typical milestone, choosing the right first toothbrush is an important first step in your child’s Read more
  • How Do We Clean Your Child’s Teeth?
    Baby teeth are very important to your child’s present and future dental health, so we want to help you keep your child free from cavities and gum disease even before Read more
  • What is an Impacted Tooth?
    You may have heard this term the first time you or a friend got your wisdom teeth. That makes sense, as wisdom teeth are the teeth most often impacted in Read more
  • Healthy Teeth and Healthy Gums Make a Great Team
    You know a lot about taking care of your teeth. You brush carefully twice each day, you floss, you (mostly!) eat healthy foods, and you see the doctor for checkups Read more
  • Just What Is Plaque?
    When you were younger, and you brushed your teeth without any help for the first time, it was a big step. It meant you’d learned the right way to brush Read more
  • What is baby bottle tooth decay?
    Great question! Baby bottle tooth decay is the development of cavities caused by the frequent and long-term exposure of a child's teeth to liquids containing sugars. These liquids include milk, Read more
  • Top Five Things to Keep Your Dentist Smiling
    Come say hello twice a year. The American Dental Association says two times is the charm. Multiple visits a year lets us keep an eye out for any developing issues. Read more
  • The Importance of Oral Health Care for your Child
    February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, so it’s a great time for our team at Little Sprout Pediatric Dentistry to talk about the importance of getting proper oral health Read more
  • Wrong Time/Wrong Place?
    In a perfectly predictable world, your child’s teeth would come in—and fall out—right on schedule, right in place. But life isn’t perfectly predictable, and teeth can erupt—or fail to erupt—in Read more
  • Should Children Use Whitening Products?
    As adults, we often wish our teeth could be as white as they were when we were small children. Baby teeth have thinner and whiter enamel than adult teeth, and Read more
  • Five Tips to Help Kids Overcome Their Fears of the Dentist
    Is your child nervous about visiting the doctor and our team at Little Sprout Pediatric Dentistry? Today, we put together some tips to help ensure your little one relaxes before Read more
  • Infant Teething Remedies: What Might Help—And What to Avoid
    Some lucky babies wake one morning displaying a brand new tooth to the complete surprise of their unsuspecting parents! But your happy baby is irritable and drooling. Or your hearty Read more
  • Does Your Child Need Endodontic Treatment?
    Baby teeth come with a built-in expiration date. That charming first smile is meant to make way for a healthy, beautiful adult smile. Unfortunately, before they are ready to make Read more
  • Why Baby Teeth Matter
    The primary teeth are the initial teeth that erupt from a child’s gums in the first few years of childhood. There are a total of 20 primary teeth, most of Read more
  • What is hyperdontia?
    When a child is born, he or she will have 20 primary teeth and 32 permanent teeth. But sometimes kids are born with additional teeth, and our team at Little Read more
  • Clean Toothbrush/Healthy Toothbrush
    We’ve all learned a lot about staying healthy lately. As a parent, you give good advice about avoiding germs in public places, cleaning things that get touched a lot like Read more

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