This is PEDYACAST.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 429 for April 11th, 2019.

We're calling this one dental trauma and emergency tooth care.

I want to welcome everyone to the program. So we are

covering dental topics this year, sort of in depth, a series within a podcast, if you will,

because, you know, issues surrounding teeth are very important to moms and dads. It comes up often

from the time kids are

babies, they're teething, you know, when do you start brushing their teeth, how do you

take care of toddler teeth? And then injuries. Injuries, the teeth are very common and

sometimes require emergency tooth care. So it's been a few years since we covered dental topics. So it's a good year to revisit

them. Dr. Janice Townsend, she is our chief of dentistry here at nationwide children's

hospital. A few weeks ago, she stopped by the studio and we talked about infant teething and

caring for those toddler teeth. We talked about the symptoms of teething, how you comfort babies as

teeth erupt, how you do that safely, what things you should avoid, brushing guidelines for young

kids, the use of fluoride, and other cavity prevention measures. And I'll put a link to that

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