“Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease, so it’s important to teach children effective tooth brushing habits, especially around the candy-focused holidays, like Halloween and Easter,” says dentist and mom, Dr. Jennifer Salzer. “As a parent and dentist, I believe there is something special about a child’s smile at every stage. Oral-B Stages is helping to make oral care fun, while also reminding parents that their children’s beautiful smiles can be maintained by encouraging proper oral care habits early on in life.”

With that said, Oral-B® Stages, the #1 recommended toothbrush brand for children is providing parents with an extremely easy way to document those key moments or ‘Smile-Stages’ in their children’s oral health development utilizing online scrapbooks. Smile-Stages gives parents the opportunity to document those important milestones in a child’s life and oral health development such as their first smile, the loss of their first tooth or their first visit from the tooth fairy. As a leader in the oral care industry Oral-B Stages and Scrapblog.com have teamed up to encourage parents to capture all those memorable Smile-Stage moments by visiting www.oralb.com/smilestages to upload photos and create personalized, online scrapbooks that can be viewed and shared online, or printed and delivered to your home.

Parents who decide to design an Oral-B Stages Smile-Stages Scrapblog will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of ten free hard copy keepsake books of their very own personalized scrapbooks.

Oral-B identifies the oral health needs of children at every stage of their young lives through the development of their Oral-B Stages line of products. I personally feel that as parents, we need to understand that it is very important to teach our children about the significance of maintaining good oral health.  Speech development, learning, nutrition and self-esteem are all areas impacted by how we take part in and encourage proper oral hygiene.

Every child has different oral care needs, the video below discusses these different stages and the proper measures that should be taken to promote good habits very early on.

How do you ensure your children’s teeth are well taken care of?