Author: Isreal Olabanji DST, RN

Isreal Olabanji is a certified Dental Nurse in Nigeria with experience in oral health education, public health, dental instruments, and patient care. He writes evidence-based dental and oral health content for readers in Nigeria, the United States, and beyond, making expert oral care guidance accessible no matter where you're reading from. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or LinkedIn.

Today, I will enlighten us about common oral health myths about dental caries for children and what we can do to prevent rampant caries in children. Most often cavities and tooth decay will attack 42 PERCENT OF CHILDREN between the ages of 2 and 11, and caries is the most common childhood disease. How can early childhood caries be prevented? and what can we as parents do to keep our children’s teeth healthy? Well, before we can fight childhood tooth decay, we have to understand what causes early childhood caries? ORAL HEALTH MYTHS ABOUT PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY When it comes to…

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Pediatric dentistry is a professional specialty dedicated to infants and children that provides comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care through adolescent, including children with special health care needs. A dentist who specializes in pediatrics work in conjunction with other healthcare providers and members of social disciplines for the health benefit of children. Also, they undergo an additional two years of training on the special treatments of the oral health needs of children. Pediatric dentists undergo specific training on how to make your child feel very comfortable about dental treatment and how to make you and your child experience a happy one.  In addition, they…

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Straight teeth and a revitalized smile could not have to be compelled to return from a mouth filled with unattractive wire and bracket braces. Enhancing vanity and physical confidence, invisible braces provide an esthetic and barely visible various to traditional wire/bracket braces.    Dental problems are never any fun, but the good news is that most of them can be easily prevented.   Are you considering obtaining braces, however, don’t grasp which sort is true for you? Here are some basics ways in which we tend to hope can clear things up. METAL BRACES Metal braces are the foremost common…

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Invisalign is a great new alternative to metal braces. Using a series of invisible plastic trays created just for you, Invisalign gently shifts your teeth into place. Simply pop in a new set of trays every two weeks and watch your smile transform. What is orthodontics? Orthodontics is one of the branches in the dental clinic that corrects teeth and jaws that are positioned improperly. Such as Crooked teeth and teeth that do not fit together correctly are harder to keep clean, are at risk of being lost early due to tooth decay and periodontal disease, and cause extra stress on…

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We’ve created this handy oral health manuals and free ebook, platforms, and resources list for your consumption. Hopefully, this list will give you a starting point to help find some of the prevention to assist us on medical/oral health promotion, prevention, treatment, and early intervention and detection.  Not every manual and PDF tool on this platform here will be useful immediately usefully, but please keep returning as we will keep updating and adding more health promotion for your health journey progresses.   This list will be continually updated with the very latest health promotion tools and manual ebook.   If…

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