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Remember when you got a postcard in the mail to remind you of your next dental appointment? Well, those days are fast disappearing as technology is making it faster, easier and less expensive for dental offices to remind patients of the appointment.
The only question left to resolve is whether voice messages or text messages work better, and that debate might have been partially answered by a recent study done at the University of Washington, Seattle which found that voice messages are twice as effective as dental appointment reminders when it comes to getting children to show up at their nextt dental appointment.
Them study, which appeared in the April issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, involved 318 parents of children who were patients at the university's dental clinic and found that 18% of parents who received text messages had missed their kid's appointments but only 18% of parents who received text messages missed their kid's appointment.
The study also found for that in both the text message and the voice message groups, younger parents were more likely to have their kids miss their dental appointments than older parents were.
Chew sugarless gum, if you can't brush after a meal. It mechanically cleans the surfaces of your teeth and promotes the flow of saliva.
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