Why Parents Should Allow Their Kids to Receive Dental Care on Their Own
At Must Love Kids, we believe that a child’s oral health requires attention from an early age. By having the doctors at MLK monitor the progress of our patients’ teeth and gums from the age of one, we can help to better enable the proper progression of their oral health into adulthood. In addition to…
Read MoreYour Kids' Guide to Getting Braces
As a Vancouver pediatric dentist, the staff at Must Love Kids knows that many of our patients will one day need braces to improve their oral health. Braces are typically placed on the teeth of patients between the ages of 10 to 14, and make a great option for kids with crooked, crowded or misaligned…
Read MoreDental Tips For a Happy Halloween
With Halloween just right around the corner, the staff at Must Love Kids knows just how excited all of those little ghouls and goblins can get about trick-or-treating. However, Halloween can also cause parents to fret over a number of health and safety challenges. While one night of enjoying candy won’t do much harm, stockpiles…
Read MoreHelping Your Kids Have a Successful Back-to-School Checkup
New clothes? Check. Cool new backpack? Check. Teeth cleaning? Check! While regular visits with your kids’ dentist in Vancouver, WA are an important part of protecting your child’s oral health year-round, back-to-school dental visits play a vital role in helping to fight the most common chronic disease found in kids in the U.S. – tooth…
Read MoreWhat To Expect When Your Child Starts Teething
As a Vancouver kids’ dentist, our team at Must Love Kids understands that new parents a have lot of information they must absorb quickly in order to keep up with their baby’s development. Between trying to monitor when to switch to solid foods, recording frantic crawls across the living room floor, and deciphering first words, parents…
Read MoreWhat Does Repeal of the ACA Mean For Kids' Dental Care?
With the days of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) seemingly being numbered, the future of children’s dental care becomes far less clear for many families. One of the ACA’s great achievements was providing increased access to dental care for millions of children all across the U.S. Now that the ACA seems poised for repeal, what…
Read MoreHealthy Habits For Your Child to Start in The New Year
When it comes to protecting your family’s oral health, it takes more than just scheduling regular appointments at a dentistry for children in Vancouver, WA. The healthy example you set for your kids has an impact now as they mature. According to a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, when a group of…
Read MoreEarly Prevention Offers Long-Term Protection
One of the lesson our staff at Must Love Kids tries to impart to parents during visits to our dentistry for children in Vancouver, WA is the need to start dental care at a young age. A child’s baby teeth are susceptible to tooth decay immediately after they first emerge – which typically occurs around…
Read MoreWhy We All Still Need To Floss
Even as a Vancouver pediatric dentist, our team at Must Love Kids knows how many patients of all ages truly dislike having to floss every day. Roughly 40 percent of adults in the U.S. fail to floss every day, with 10 percent claiming they don’t floss at all, according to studies conducted by the American…
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