Create Tooth-Friendly Easter Baskets Says Michigan
Dentist Timothy Kosinski
The Smile Creator Encourages Use Of
"Tooth-Friendly" Easter Baskets To Teach Children Sound Hygiene Habits
BINGHAM FARMS, Michigan -- The Smile Creator, also known
as Dr. Timothy Kosinski, DDS, wants to help children keep their lovely smiles
by encouraging their parents to avoid candy in the Easter Baskets this year.
More teeth are destroyed Easter morning than at any other
holiday except Halloween, says Kosinski. To address the problem, he recommends
tooth-friendly baskets.
Americans spend more than $1.5 billion on Easter candy each
year, second only to the $1.77 billion spent on Halloween, according to the
National Confectioners Association. Americans each year eat the equivalent of
25 pounds of candy per person, plus an additional 2 pounds of gum each.
"Given the love we all have for candy, I certainly wouldn't
recommend that we not give our children candy for Easter, Halloween, Christmas
or Valentine's Day," Kosinski said. "But I plan on making this Easter more fun
and healthy by giving my children a tooth-friendly Easter Basket, which I
strongly suspect many other parents also would like to do."
Kosinski suggests parents substitute candy with stickers,
stuffed animals, pocket-sized games, coloring books, Crayons, books, comic
books, magazines, videos, and video games. Sugar-free gummy bears, gum and
lollipops also are fun and healthy.
In sample baskets at his office, Kosinski also includes
children's toothpaste, toothbrushes, dental floss and even a tooth fairy pillow
for lost teeth. In addition, he suggests key chains, baseball cards, flavored
lip balm, colorful bandages, flower or vegetable seed packets, sidewalk chalk,
sunglasses and colored shoelaces or building blocks. Grapes and carrots also
are good additions to the Sunday-morning tradition.
"Brushing after eating candy or any food is still the best way
to avoid cavities," says Dr. Kosinski. "Parents can help by reducing or
completely eliminating hard candy that children suck on or let melt in their
mouths."
Kosinski stresses that if you must indulge than brush
immediately afterward.
"I am not a Scrooge," admits Kosinski. "Eating candy is fine,
and I know you can't take that away. But I would rather they eat that whole
bunny at one sitting, get it over with and brush the teeth, and then it is
done. It is the constant snacking all day long - nibbling on an ear now and a
foot later - that's when we start to see the sticking to the teeth."
For more information about Dr. Kosinski or SmileCreator go to
www.smilecreator.net, call 248-646-8651 or send an email query to
allquestions@smilecreator.net. SmileCreator is located at 31000
Telegraph Rd., Suite 170, Bingham Farms, MI 48025
About Dr. Timothy Kosinski: He has practiced general and
implant dentistry for 20 years. A graduate of University of Detroit Dental
School, he completed comprehensive implant training at Harvard. He is a
Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry, The
International Congress of Oral Implantologists and the American Society of
Osseointegration. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry
and most recently received his Mastership in the AGD in Anaheim this year. Dr.
Kosinski has been inducted into the American and International Colleges of
Dentists and the Academy of Dentistry International. Dr. Kosinski was selected
the Best Dentist in America by his peers in 2004-2005.
Create Tooth-Friendly Easter Baskets Says Michigan Dentist
Timothy Kosinski
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