{"id":446,"date":"2024-01-28T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2024-01-28T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T12:25:27","slug":"oral-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/oral-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Public health England states that \u201cTooth decay is the most common oral disease affecting children in England\u201d and \u201calmost 9 out of 10 hospital tooth extractions among children aged 0 to 5 years are due to preventable tooth decay\u201d. At little Giants Nursery we encourage good oral health within our curriculum, encouraging healthy eating, learning about the dentist, and how and why we brush our teeth. Below are some useful links with information on how to keep your child\u2019s teeth healthy and prevent tooth decay:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitydentalservices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tips-for-toothbrushing-children.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Tips for toothbrushing &#8211; children (communitydentalservices.co.uk)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitydentalservices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Diet-and-your-childs-oral-health.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Diet and your child&#8217;s oral health (communitydentalservices.co.uk)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Live-well\/healthy-teeth-and-gums\/taking-care-of-childrens-teeth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Children&#8217;s teeth &#8211; NHS (www.nhs.uk)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help-for-early-years-providers.education.gov.uk\/safeguarding-and-welfare\/oral-health\/?utm_source=entitlements&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=oh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Oral health &#8211; Help for early years providers &#8211; GOV.UK (education.gov.uk)<\/strong><\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/service-search\/find-a-dentist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Find a dentist &#8211; NHS (www.nhs.uk)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public health England states that \u201cTooth decay is the most common oral disease affecting children in England\u201d and \u201calmost 9 out of 10 hospital tooth extractions among children aged 0 to 5 years are due to preventable tooth decay\u201d. At little Giants Nursery we encourage good oral health within our curriculum, encouraging healthy eating, learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/little-giants.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}