DS is almost 3 years old and we are still on the training toothpaste. I haven't switched over because 1) I'm not sure when to 2) DS doesn't follow direction very well and i'm sure would want to swallow the toothpaste.
When and how did you switch over to the flouride stuff and did your child understand to hold and spit the toothpaste out instead of swallow it?
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
Just recently after reading a thread about it. LO is two and she spits. and dribbles.
coconut / 8234 posts
We just started since there's a new recommendation to have kids use a small dab of it as soon as they get teeth. LO is 22 months.
pomegranate / 3388 posts
We're about to start b/c of the new recommendations. (DD is 23 months.) @mrsjazz: Do you just use regular adult toothpaste, or is it kids toothpaste w/ flouride?
coconut / 8234 posts
@skibobrown: Right now we just let her use a dab of ours at night (Colgate w/baking soda). And she uses her flouride-free one in the mornings.
squash / 13208 posts
At age 4 our dentist had us put some fluoride on a toothbrush and go over his teeth after he brushed. Closer to age 5 he actually starting spitting and so we moved to fluoride toothpaste
grapefruit / 4923 posts
there's a new ADA recommendation that even if a child can't spit, that using fluoride toothpaste is preferred (it says to use the size of a grain of rice). so we switched around 1 year because that's when we heard about the recommendation.
here's the hellobee thread where folks had some interesting input:
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/revised-ada-rec-on-fluoride-toothpaste
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