As any experienced –and honest – parent will admit, we're all just making this stuff up as we go along. Parenting is as close to real-life on-the-job training as it gets.

This is never more evident than when it comes to health – and dental – issues.

How else do you explain roughly 97 percent of parents rating their kids' oral health good or great when we all know better? But then less than half of parents have actually talked to their pediatrician about their child's oral health at all. And nearly a quarter of them already have heard complaints from dentists that their kids are risking tooth decay or worse.

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