A good, healthy, white tooth is important to everyone. But how to protect children’s teeth from an early age?
• How did the child’s teeth get decayed step by step
• There are many reasons for children’s dental caries, but they are all related to parents’ misunderstanding of children’s teeth and brushing.
• Misunderstanding 1: If a child is too young, brushing will damage the teeth and gums
• Many parents dare not clean their teeth because of their young age and it is difficult to clean them. They are afraid of accidentally hurting the baby’s young teeth and gums.
• Actually, don’t worry too much. Teeth are the hardest organ of the human body. Your baby’s healthy teeth are not as fragile as you think. On the contrary, when the baby is still young and needs our help to clean the teeth, parents should take care to protect their fingers. Cooperating baby bites~
• Starting from the eruption of the baby’s first deciduous tooth, which is about 6 months old, parents can start to use sterile clean gauze dipped in warm water, and gently scrub the baby’s teeth to cleanse each time after drinking milk.
• Misunderstanding 2: Brushing teeth after drinking milk in the middle of the night will affect a child’s sleep
• It is easy to clean your baby’s teeth during the day. But some babies need to drink milk at midnight. To not disturb their baby’s sleep, they won’t brush the baby’s teeth.
• The baby is still young and drinking milk at midnight is inevitable, but long-term drinking milk at midnight, especially after the baby grows teeth, sleeps without brushing the teeth is bad for the baby’s teeth. The milk and the bacteria in the mouth decompose to produce acid. If things go on like this, the child’s teeth are easily destroyed.
• Therefore, gradually reduce the number of night milk after the baby has teeth, and remember to clean the baby’s teeth after drinking milk at night.
• Misunderstanding 3: The deciduous teeth will fall out, so it’s not too late to brush the permanent teeth
• This misunderstanding is too common. I saw a grandmother taking her grandson out to play in the community. The child was only 5 years old, but a mouthful of baby teeth was black and yellow, and a few had fallen out, which greatly affected the appearance. I told my grandma to pay attention to the baby’s dental health. Grandma looked disapproving, saying that the deciduous teeth would fall out anyway, and they would grow back after two years.
• I don’t need to pay attention because my deciduous teeth will fall out? This is the biggest misunderstanding!
• The baby’s deciduous teeth are very important.
• First, a healthy bite of deciduous teeth can help your baby chew and digest effectively.
• Second, the presence of deciduous teeth sets aside a gap for the eruption of permanent teeth. If the deciduous teeth shift or fall off prematurely, there will be insufficient space for inheriting the permanent teeth, resulting in abnormal eruption positions of the permanent teeth.
• Thirdly, teeth can also help the baby’s language pronunciation. If the baby’s teeth are prematurely missing/missing, it will affect the baby’s pronunciation and language development.
• Fourth, how beautiful a mouthful of white and clean teeth is. The baby has a defective yellow and black tooth. Are you afraid that he will be laughed at by kids in kindergarten?!
• Therefore, you must pay attention to the cleanliness and health of your baby teeth, and don’t wait until it has seriously affected your child.
• two. How to clean teeth effectively and protect your baby’s dental health
• According to the results of the fourth national oral health epidemiological survey report, the prevalence of dental caries among 5-year-old children in my country is 70.9%, the prevalence of dental caries among children aged 3 and 4 are 50.5% and 63.0% respectively, and children aged 12-15 have permanent teeth. The caries prevalence rate was 41.9%.
• Some parents are very confused. I insist on letting the baby brush his teeth every day. Why does he still have tooth decay?
• In fact, babies don’t like to brush their teeth, and brushing their teeth not carefully is the main cause of tooth decay. Are you sure the baby is brushing his teeth?
• When brushing your teeth, you should include 3 tooth surfaces: the inner measuring surface, the outer surface, and the horizontal chewing surface. Pay special attention to the molars (on the side of the tongue) and the upper molars (on the side of the cheek) after cleaning, because these are the most easily missed areas when the baby brushes his teeth.
• Brushing teeth must also adhere to the “three-two system”, that is, brush 2-3 times a day, and pay attention to the one before going to bed at night; the three faces of the teeth (cheek, tongue, bite, and raised face) must be brushed every time. Brush carefully and carefully for 3 minutes to fully clean your teeth.
• These methods are simple to say but not easy to do. Just brushing for 3 minutes each time twice a day is enough to embarrass the baby. Many parents and babies perfunctorily brush their teeth, or simply rinse their mouths with water, which will not be able to protect the teeth.
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• 1. What should I do if children do not like to brush their teeth?
• no child doesn’t hate brushing teeth. The child opens his mouth and pokes a plastic stick into it, along with a strange white foam. Back and forth, up and down, left and right, really annoying.
• Education and fun are also a good way. A friend of mine didn’t like vegetables when he was young, but since he saw Popeye, he asked his mother to make his spinach every day. We can choose cartoon demonstration videos, let the children imitate, read picture books related to brushing teeth, etc. to let the baby understand the methods and benefits of brushing teeth. More importantly, choosing a toothbrush that is suitable for your baby so that he will not refuse to brush his teeth from the beginning is the first step to success.
• 2. Should I use fluoride toothpaste for my baby?
• Fluoride toothpaste has always been controversial. Although fluoride helps resist baby teeth, it may cause fluorosis if swallowed. Therefore, it is recommended that babies under 3 years old who are easy to swallow toothpaste should not use fluoride toothpaste. Wait until the baby is sure that they will not swallow toothpaste before using fluoride toothpaste.
Even with the assistance of a suitable electric toothbrush, as a parent, you must provide guidance and supervision to help your child establish a correct concept of oral health and protect his teeth.