How to Teach Kids to Brush Their Teeth

Video Transcript

"Are you looking for ways on how to reach your child to brush his or her teeth? Well my name is Michelle and I'm a dental assistant with Solutionz and I'm going to help you out. I'm going to help you and explain to you on how you can teach your child to brush their teeth. First of all you definitely want to be animated whenever you are teaching a child to brush their teeth or whenever you are teaching a child anything. Really basically get down to their level and show them, have them perform brushing their teeth, have them be very hands on with it. If you can show the child and in return they replicate exactly what you do then that is a great method on how to teach them and especially you want to teach them the right way. So first of all you want to show your child on how to brush their teeth, perform it on yourself and then you would then have them in return do it. Another great method too is to make sure your child is brushing their teeth right is you can actually purchase a solution over the counter which is a rinse that you would have your child rinse with first. That rinse is like an indicating rinse. It indicates where the bacteria is and where the decay lies on the teeth so which in return you have the child rinse with that, show them that that is what you need to brush, have them brush it and then rinse out their mouth to get all of the residue off and then have them rinse again just to make sure that they have removed all of the debris and the bacteria from their mouth. Another great way is to give them an incentive program. You know tell them if you brush your teeth great like this and you do this two times a day or three times a day then you know you have an extra incentive, you know here is a cookie or here is a dollar that you get at the end of the day. The more and more you can give them an incentive to brush their teeth you are going to get the results that you want from your child. So my name is Michelle. I am a dental assistant with Solutions and I hope I helped you on how you can show your child how to brush their teeth correctly."