When your child starts to lose his or her baby teeth, reinforce the importance of proper dental care. For example: 1  Remind your child to brush his or her teeth at least twice a day. 2  Supervise and offer assistance as needed. 3  Help your child floss his or her teeth daily. 4  Eat a healthy diet and limit between-meal snacks.
1 Unusual or excessive frugality; extreme economy or stinginess. 2  Adoption of the simplest assumption in the formulation of a theory or in the interpretation of data, especially in accordance with the rule of Ockham's razor.
In general, parsimony is the principle that the simplest explanation that can explain the data is to be preferred. In the analysis of phylogeny, parsimony means that a hypothesis of relationships that requires the smallest number of character changes is most likely to be correct.In molecular systematics, these character changes are DNA mutations.n the analysis of phylogeny, parsimony means that a hypothesis of relationships that requires the smallest number of character changes is most likely to be correct. In molecular systematics, these character changes are DNA mutations.