I came across a pretty shocking article the other day and I just had to share it with you.<\/p>\n
A poll, surveying 2,000 families estimates that one million children in the UK don\u2019t visit the dentist until at least the age of eight.<\/p>\n
As the debate rages over \u2018sugar tax\u2019 and the amount of fizzy drinks that children are consuming, it has never been more important to ensure that, from a young age, your children are being given the proper dental treatment, and I\u2019ve got to be honest, these statistics worry me a lot.<\/p>\n
You can read the full article here: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/11737008\/One-in-seven-children-have-not-seen-a-dentist-by-the-age-of-eight.html<\/a><\/p>\n At Brightside Dental, we\u2019re massively dedicated to improving children\u2019s oral hygiene, for the simple reason that we know how much happier and content children are when their mouths are in good order; so I\u2019ll admit that we were all a bit upset by these statistics.<\/p>\n If your child hasn\u2019t been for a checkup recently, I urge you, get it rectified, sooner rather than later, with the school holidays being the perfect time for it.<\/p>\n Speak soon<\/p>\n Ketan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came across a pretty shocking article the other day and I just had to share it with you. A poll, surveying 2,000 families estimates that one million children in the UK don\u2019t visit the dentist until at least the age of eight. As the debate rages over \u2018sugar tax\u2019 and the amount of fizzy … Continue reading Are you doing the best by your children?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}