As a champion of good dental habits, I would like to note some Serious Oral Health Problem Indicators: Avoiding the dentist. Forgetting to floss and wash. Eating and drinking with wild abandon!

Okay, the last one I am still struggling with, but balance in life is also vital. Anyway, "studies show" that 4 out of five dentists choose better dental health as a choice. Therefore, there must be some validity to flossing, mouth washing, seeing the dentist regularly, and improving your diet. Until I got married, which was many years ago, I thought my sadistic (health conscious) parents had made it all up.

Actually, it could be much more serious than my health conniving parents ever suspected. Now they (the people that do those 4 out of 5 studies) say letting your oral health decline too much could cause a heart attack or a stroke. Talk about your mouth getting you into trouble! The other mouth trouble is all too familiar to me, but the oral health kind did not get on my radar until more recently.

If only every school principal would have explained oral health to me during THOSE frequent office visits: imagine 100 hours of oral health education. See even disruptive behavior can have benefits. It is sad I am the only one that understands this. Not only can I improve dental health habits, I can transform our public school system. Now back to dentistry…