{"id":6785,"date":"2018-03-08T07:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=6785"},"modified":"2018-03-08T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:30:55","slug":"poll-finds-parents-are-confused-about-dental-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/poll-finds-parents-are-confused-about-dental-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll finds parents are confused about dental care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in three Australian children do not brush their teeth twice a day and one in ten have had at least one decayed tooth pulled out before they turn nine years old, according to new research by The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital National Child Health Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The RCH National Child Health Poll has uncovered for the first time that one in three preschoolers have never visited a dentist and many well-meaning parents are confused about how best to keep their child\u2019s teeth healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Here, director of the\u00a0<span class=\"highlightNode\">poll<\/span>\u00a0Dr Anthea Rhodes shares a snapshot of the findings and some advice on how to keep kids teeth healthy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/258746013\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Aust Child Health Poll - Dental Health\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read more key findings or learn more about the poll at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rchpoll.org.au\/\">www.rchpoll.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest RCH National Child Health Poll has revealed one in three children do not brush their teeth twice a day. Click through to read more findings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":6788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}