The first consultation of the dentist should be made from 12 months to assess the risk in the oral health of children, intercept potential problems and advise parents on the prevention of disease. Most children reach almost all the features of swallowing mature between 12 and 15 months.

Children may be at high or low risk of dental disease. The oral health status of parents and / or caregivers has implications on children’s oral health. Remember that dental caries is a infeción produced by microbes that are transmitted by adults to share forks, blowing food, cleaning the pacifier in her mouth, test the temperature of the bottle or kissing on the mouth.

After 3 years, if not ingest toothpaste, fluoride toothpaste can be used that have proven anticaries action. Brush should be placed in very small quantities, sufficient to be the size of a lentil. Current trends in the use of fluoride in caries preventive focus on local application of fluoride toothpaste in the form of daily use, daily or weekly rinses and professional topically according to patient risk.

The use of fluoride supplements by eating when no fluoride in drinking water is reduced to its local action in cases of children at high risk of dental disease.