Dental Health is critical to your child's overall health and early learning. Knowing what to expect and how to prevent problems will make a life-long difference to your child.

SmileStones is a guide that helps parents and caregivers understand what you can do to promote your child's oral health from a woman's pregnancy, to infancy and through preschool years. Originally created as a printed booklet, we wanted to offer a way to access it online as well.

Click to open the full 18-page booklet in your browser. You will be able to save it to your computer as a PDF.

The following links will take you directly to PDFs of just the part of the booklet that interests you the most:

Pregnancy Through Year 1

• The Early Stages 
• Taking Care of Baby
• Here Come the Baby Teeth
• First Oral Health Check-up by First Birthday

• Your Toddler's Oral Health 
• Here Comes the Tooth Fairy 
• Caring For Your Child's Permanent Teeth

• The Dental Decay Process
• Balancing Good Oral Health
• Nutrition and Oral Health
• Protecting Your Child's Mouth
• Braces and Orthodontia
• Accessing Dental Care
• Charting Your Child's Baby Teeth

Learn more about your child's oral health in our Baby Teeth section.