It’s every parents’ nightmare to find out that their pre-schooler has early childhood tooth decay! So when we found out that our little one had more than one cavity, we blamed ourselves for being complacent. Afterall, the older one did not have a single cavity, despite using the milk bottle way past one year old. Thankfully, we found a great paediatric dentist, who not only fixed our little one’s teeth, but also gave us great advice on preventing future cavities.
The key to preventing cavities is fluoride -- at least 1000ppm of fluoride! And so we were introduced to Aquafresh kids toothpaste. Aquafresh is the only brand of kids’ toothpaste with 1450ppm of fluoride, to protect your kids’ growing teeth. It comes in 3 forms for different age groups: milk teeth (0-2 years, only 1000ppm of fluoride), little teeth (3-5 years), and big teeth (6-8 years).
Tips to get the best value out of this...
- You can easily buy/find the Aquafresh ‘big teeth’ toothpaste in Singapore at most pharmacies and supermarkets. However, the Aquafresh ‘little teeth’ toothpaste is found primarily online, such as on Shopee.
- The Aquafresh toothpaste comes in only one flavour: mint, which most kids are not accustomed to. One trick our paediatric dentist taught us, is to mix the Aquafresh toothpaste with your child’s favourite flavoured toothpaste (e.g. orange flavour). This definitely helped to get our kids into the habit of using the Aquafresh high fluoride toothpaste.