Listerine and Reach Oral Care

Having 6 kids and putting the 3rd in braces very soon...I'm very familiar with visits to the dentist and buying oral care products. Having this many kids also makes you familiar with how many products are out there and trying lots out to fit everyone's tastes and needs and even wants when it comes to styles and colors of products.

Halloween is only a few days away, and although kids think about what type of candy they'll get and fret over their costumes, Moms worry more about cavities. A night full of sugar and it's endless days of leftover candy may seem like harmless fun, but statistics show kids miss 51 million school hours each year (that's alot of hours)because of dental-related illness, and pediatric dental disease is the #1 chronic childhood illness.

To help with the candy frenzy this month, Listerine and Reach created "October Oral Care Challenge" for kids 6 and older to take with their parents—a great tip to get kids to imitate good oral hygiene routines. To complete the challenge, kids and Moms and Dads have to brush, floss and rinse every day, twice a day for three weeks—a key step in building a strong oral care foundation. We all hear about the importance of regular brushing and flossing for your oral care routine, but rinsing with a therapeutic mouthwash for 30 seconds twice daily, an additional but essential activity, helps reach those other parts of the mouth that harbor germs.

The makers of Listerine and Reach have also teamed up with America's Toothfairy to launch "Trick or Treat for America's Toothfairy," a campaign to raise awareness of pediatric dental disease and help provide life changing care to underserved children. You can visit America's Toothfairy to learn more. So if any of the kids that come to your door are collecting for this please try and donate ...it goes to a great cause !

“I wrote this review while participating in a blog campaign by Mom Central Consulting on behalf of LISTERINE and REACH and received products to take the Oral Care Challenge. Mom Central Consulting also sent me a Global Giving gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate.”