Maintaining Dental Health in Children During the Summer

Top North West doctor issues health advice ahead of summer holidays

Families are being urged to plan ahead and take steps to protect their health over the summer holidays.

Maintaining dental health in children during the summer

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The number one key factor to dental health is routine, said Dr. Matthew Carraway, a dentist with Basin Pediatric Dentistry. "Especially in the summer, parents kids, everybody, gets out of their normal routine, and we just see the oral hygiene, just take a nose dive, and the cavities go up," said Dr. Carraway Cavities are the most common chronic disease of childhood in the U.S., shared data from the Center for Disea…