A comprehensive curriculum to teach preventive oral health lessons to:

• Pregnant women — keep their own teeth healthy and be ready to keep baby teeth strong
• Center staff — caring for babies and toddlers
• Home Visitors —reaching the whole family.

Teachers and home visitors find...

• New ways to begin discussions
• Reference material to build their confidence
• Typical scenarios and how to handle them
• Light-hearted ways to bring the oral health message to parents
• Materials in English, Spanish, Russian, Cambodian, Chinese, Somali, and Vietnamese
• That their own oral health improves!

Mothers find...

• No need to feel guilty
• That it is important to keep their own teeth healthy
• Early Childhood Caries - Baby Bottle Tooth Decay- is preventable
• Baby teeth are important!

What makes Cavity Free Kids: An Early Start unique?

• Oral health messages can be effective, guilt free, and easy to include with other parenting issues! (Do YOU know how healthy teeth relate to toilet training or temper tantrums???)

Cavity Free Kids is based on the latest, evidence based oral health science and draws on Bright Futures oral health information. A list of references is included in the curriculum binder and CD.