By Stacy Whitman Oral hygiene can be easy to brush off when you’re dealing with a squirmy or uncooperative kid. But there are important new reasons to make it a top priority. Studies now link poor oral health to heart disease, dementia, diabetes and several forms of cancer—and the problems can start in early childhood, [...]

Oral hygiene can be easy to brush off when you’re dealing with a squirmy or uncooperative kid. But there are important new reasons to make it a top priority.