Helping Youngsters Brush Up On the Basics of Oral Hygiene ; Do Your Children Know How to Brush Their Teeth Properly? Many Don't, and Could Be Storing Up Big Problems for the Future. But a New Swansea Scheme Is Aiming to Reverse the Trend. Emma Jones Reports.

South Wales Evening Post › April 22, 2010

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THERE are many things Sue Matthews's fiveyear-old would rather do than brush his teeth.

"It is," she admits, "a bit of a twice-daily chore."

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Helping Youngsters Brush Up On the Basics of Oral Hygiene ; Do Your Children Know How to Brush Their Teeth Properly? Many Don't, and Could Be Storing Up Big Problems for the Future. But a New Swansea Scheme Is Aiming to Reverse the Trend. Emma Jones Reports.

"We have tried to make it part of a daily routine for a long time but it is a bit of an uphill battle," says the 32-year-old mum from Treboeth, in Swansea.

"It seems he would rather be doing anything but!'' She isn't alone. But a...

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