{"id":653,"date":"2015-06-09T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T09:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2024-04-23T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:05:08","slug":"national-smile-month-are-you-up-for-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/national-smile-month-are-you-up-for-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"National Smile Month &#8211; are you up for the challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">If you haven\u2019t heard, this is officially a month to celebrate!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">While it may not be quite as fun as Christmas, and doesn\u2019t involve so much chocolate as Easter, it\u2019s a pretty important month when it comes to your teeth\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019m talking about\u00a0<b>National Smile Month<\/b>, and if you haven\u2019t heard of it I promise you it\u2019s a real thing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">From May 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0&#8211; June 18<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015 it\u2019s your chance to take extra care of your teeth and try to implement some healthy habits to improve the health and look of your smile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Have a look and see for yourself!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0645ad;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsmilemonth.org\/\" shape=\"rect\">http:\/\/www.nationalsmilemonth.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Basically there are loads of pointers on their site that can really help keep your teeth healthy. Here are a few of my favourites\u2026<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li>Clean in between your teeth using interdental brushes or floss. This will help to clean a higher proportion of the tooth and prevent the build-up of plaque.<\/li>\n<li>Always tell your dentist about changes to your health, as it may help to prevent gum disease from developing.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce your child to the sights and sounds of the dental practice at an early age to allay any dental phobia that might develop. Take them with you when you go for your assessment.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s better for your teeth and general health if you eat 3 meals a day plus no more than two snacks, instead of having lots of snack attacks throughout the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0I hope you\u2019ll be signing up with us this month!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ketansig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ketansig.png\" alt=\"ketansig\" width=\"196\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t heard, this is officially a month to celebrate! While it may not be quite as fun as Christmas, and doesn\u2019t involve so much chocolate as Easter, it\u2019s a pretty important month when it comes to your teeth\u2026 I\u2019m talking about\u00a0National Smile Month, and if you haven\u2019t heard of it I promise you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/national-smile-month-are-you-up-for-the-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Smile Month &#8211; are you up for the challenge?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}