The Rodeo Dental and Orthodontics Outreach in Brownsville and Fort Worth Texas was their commitment to the community and to show their dedication to educational and outreach programs, as their diverse community initiatives reached nearly 50,000 kids, adults and families in the Brownsville area and well over 62,000 in Fort Wort. Rodeo Dental continued to host programs and events to promote the importance of good oral health.

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The New York University College of Dentistry research team was awarded $2.2 Million grant to sequence the genome of lactobacilli strains to look for a relationship to severe early childhood caries.   The Grant is for a four year research to identify which of the 140 known strains of lactobacilli are most destructive in their contribution to childhood caries.

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Over a 100 dental professionals and volunteers provided free dental treatment and preventive care to 125 underserved children from 10 local organizations. TeamSmile and Kroenke Sports Charities sponsored the program. Kids not only received free dental care, they were also treated to visits from Nuggets players, dancers and ambassadors, and each child received two tickets to a game. The event was part of the National Basketball Association Season of Giving program

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Ms Julia Barr knows the importance of oral health care, and how lucky she is to have access to great dental care. It is why she agreed to be the spokeswoman for New Jersey’s Give Kids A Smile campaign.

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From now on each year February will be designated as the month to increase public awareness of the importance of good oral health among all of New Jersey’s children.   In addition all other public and private health entities, are encouraged to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.

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My son is now going on 19 months and I am worried about his thumb sucking and making his teeth come in crooked.   I heard that pacifiers and thumb sucking are not a good for a babys once their teeth come in.  I have been trying to get him to stop the thumb sucking but it make him upset when I do.  How long should I let this continue?

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My baby daughter five weeks old now, so of course she does not have any teeth yet. However the next time I can make any changes to my current dental insurance plan is at open enrollment which is February next year. By then she will have teeth.  Should I buy her dental insurance right now or wait for  February next year to add her?

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As a teen Dr Lamb volunteer at a missionary training center in Monterrey, Mexico, He was called on to help haul the center’s trash trailer to the city dump.  The dumpster was filled with a week’s worth of kitchen waste, and he was horrified to see people driven by hunger picking through it, looking for scraps of food amid the waste.

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My son is a year old and he now has four teeth. I will be taking him in for his first dental appointment with the next week.  I want to have some idea of what to expect for his first dental visit.  Such as: What dose the dentist do? What kind of questions should I ask? Any advice would help.

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Dental experts in the US stated that more the 40% of children below six years of age have had tooth decay.   Newly revised guidelines by the AAPD suggest that infants of 6 to 12 months old should be taken to dentists. Parents should establish good dental habits in their children early on since children that have had tooth decay in baby teeth have a higher risk of tooth decay in their adult teeth.

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