Your baby’s oral health is important as oral diseases are now becoming widespread. Common dental problems in children are gingivitis and tooth decay and if not treated, they can develop into more serious complications.
Dental care needs to start at home and parents should teach their child good oral hygiene and healthy dental habits from a young age. Check your child’s mouth and teeth regularly and arrange for regular dental examination by a dentist. Remove from them the fear of dentists and make every dental visit a pleasant and exciting activity. You child can be healthy from teeth to feet with a nutritious and healthy diet.

An SMS campaign was recenly launched to help improve the general health of mothers and babies. It cleverly uses text messaging technology as the most convenient way of communication and the easiest way to reach a large and varied class of recipients.

Keystone Mercy Health Plan, the largest Medicaid managed care organization in Pennsylvania, has partnered with The Maternity Care Coalition and the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB) Coalition, to launch the Philadelphia text4baby campaign.

Women sign up for the free service by texting “BABY” (or “BEBE,” in Spanish) to 511411. Each woman receives three, SMS text messages every week, timed to their due date or baby’s age, up to the child’s first birthday.