Brushing and Flossing
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Brushing
For most children over 3 years old, you can use a toothbrush with soft bristles and pea-sized amount of fluoride toothpaste. A guideline for 1-3 year old children, is to only apply a thin smear or ‘grain-of-rice’ sized amount of fluoridated toothpaste. If your child hasn’t yet mastered spitting out the toothpaste, you may consider using a toddler or training toothpaste that is non-fluoridated and safe to swallow. Parents should regularly supervise brushing to make sure that children to not apply and swallow too much toothpaste. Below is a photo provided by the American Dental Association with a smear of toothpaste pictured on the left and a pea-size on the right.