We would like to draw your attention to an excellent website that will educate you in the areas of dental disease. It explains the process of gum disease and it's management within the family as a unit. Gum disease is a vertically transmisable disease. This statement simply means that as an adult with active gum disease, you can pass it vertically to your children. An example of this would be the most naturally instinctive parental reaction of putting a soother that dropped on the floor, into your mouth to 'CLEAN' it. For some patients, the level of bacteria that is in their mouth when they have active gum disease is more harmful than the germs that contaminated the soother when it fell to the floor.

So in the iterest of your family dental health, we would encourage you to visit this site and show your children, so they too can be aware of the implications of incorrect oral hygiene.

www.carifree.com