American Dental Association, American Academy of Pediatrics Say Include Dental CheckUp in Children's BacktoSchool Routine.

(From AScribe)

CHICAGO -- As millions of children head back to school, the American Dental Association (ADA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) say it is just as important to examine the mouth as the rest of the body, encouraging parents to make dental exams a regular part of their children's back-to-school routine. Children in the United States need and deserve to arrive on the first day of school healthy and ready to learn, according to a recent statement by U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, M.D., M.P.H. But more than half of all 5-to-9-year-old children have at least one cavity or filling. And, when a child has serious tooth decay, an infectious …