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Parents Need to Keep Children's Dental Health

| 3.5.12

Parents Need to Keep Children's Dental Health
A British study revealed that gum disease and tooth increases the risk of heart disease.

"This should not happen," said Director of Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Dr Steve Ryan, as quoted from the pages of the Daily Mail.

He said that dental disease that triggers premature death in children is a problem that can be prevented. That's why he always warned his parents to always keep their child's dental health.

Ryan explained, the number of children in hospital patients, who suffered health problems from the wrong kind of lifestyle toothache and obesity continues to rise. Achieve at least 200 thousand children per year.

Most patients are children with dental complaints. Over half of the 1,000 patients who underwent dental surgery at a hospital dental clinic for a year are children under the age of six.

"No child should have this problem, and (if they have a healthy lifestyle) they should not be here," he said. "These conditions make people start seeing them as a possible generation of children will die before their parents."

The study also revealed that approximately 500 to 1,000 children per year have to undergo hospital treatment due to parents' cigarette smoke exposure. In 2020, also predicted eight of the 10 men and seven and 10 women will be obese. Thus, the necessary lifestyle changes in order to have longevity.