Parents Need to Maintain Child Dental Health

A UK study reveals, gum disease and tooth increases the risk of heart disease.

"This should never happen," said Director of Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Dr Steve Ryan, as quoted from the page of the Daily Mail.

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

Ryan explained, the number of pediatric patients at his hospital, who experience health problems caused by the wrong kind of lifestyle toothache and obesity continues to rise. Achieve at least 200 thousand children per year.

Most were pediatric patients with dental complaints. Over half of the 1000 patients who had dental surgery at a hospital dental clinic for a year are children under the age of six years.

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

The research also reveals, approximately 500 to 1,000 children per year have to undergo treatment in the hospital due to exposure to cigarette smoke parents. In 2020, also predicted eight of the 10 men and seven and 10 women will be obese. Thus, the need to change lifestyles in order to have longevity.