There are many ideas and behaviors about infants' oral cavity, which often lead to or even aggravate children's bad oral health habits, thus seriously endangering children's oral health.
Then, what are the misunderstandings of common oral health care and what are the bad oral health care habits? Let's make this problem clear first, hoping to help parents and let every child have a white, healthy and neat tooth.
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1, deciduous teeth need to be replaced, and dental caries do not need treatment.
I often hear this view, and many parents have this idea, but this view is wrong. When deciduous teeth have dental caries, they should be treated as soon as possible.
Some parents are afraid that their children are too young to cooperate, which often leads to the further development of dental caries, dental pulp (tooth nerve) inflammation and periapical periodontitis, causing greater harm and pain. Dental caries of deciduous teeth are treated by children's dentists from a few months after children's teeth erupt to three years old.
Five hazards of deciduous tooth caries;
1) Dental caries of deciduous teeth seriously destroy tooth structure, affect chewing and eating, affect children's nutrition absorption and affect children's jaw development.
2) Serious caries of deciduous teeth will also affect the development and eruption of subsequent hereditary permanent teeth, leading to tooth development defects and abnormal eruption, which will eventually lead to crowded teeth and uneven arrangement.
3) Dental caries of deciduous teeth, especially front teeth, will also affect children's appearance and normal psychological development.
4) Babies are often the critical period for children to learn pronunciation and speak. If the front teeth are seriously decayed, it will also affect children's pronunciation and have a negative impact on the development of children's language intelligence.
5) The main cause of dental caries is a kind of bacteria called "amoeba". If the child has serious dental caries, this kind of bacteria and its metabolites will enter the blood circulation, affecting the whole body organs such as heart and kidney, and even inducing.
This shows that the harm of dental caries in infants is very serious, and parents should pay full attention to it. For dental caries, early detection and early treatment are needed.
2. Children can brush their teeth without the help of adults.
This view is wrong. Generally speaking, children should clean their teeth from the first eruption; I started brushing my children's teeth with a toothbrush after I was one year old. I started using toothpaste after I was 3 years old. Because in infancy, children's behavioral ability is limited, brushing teeth is a delicate action, and brushing teeth alone cannot achieve the effect of cleaning teeth. Parents should clean their children's teeth in infancy or even the whole preschool period.
3. Malocclusion of deciduous teeth does not have to be corrected immediately, and it is not too late to correct it after all the teeth of 12 years old are replaced.
This view is wrong. Malocclusion of deciduous teeth should be treated as soon as possible. Tooth malocclusion has two main effects: first, it affects the development of maxilla, restricts its development, affects its facial morphology and affects its beauty; Second, it will have a bad influence on temporomandibular joint, laying a hidden danger for the occurrence of adult temporomandibular joint. When deciduous teeth erupt completely, as long as children can cooperate with doctors, they should be treated as soon as possible, and the earlier the treatment, the better the effect.
4, children are not easy to fall asleep, sleeping with a bottle is a good hypnosis method.
This practice is wrong. Because sleeping with a bottle, the liquid in the bottle will soak around the teeth and become an excellent culture medium for dental caries-causing bacteria in the mouth; In addition, the carbohydrates in the bottle liquid will be decomposed by bacteria to produce acid, which will corrode teeth, demineralize and dissolve teeth, and form dental caries.
Clinically, many cases of serious dental caries in infants have a history of sleeping in bottles, which are often filled with formula milk powder, sugar water, autumn pear cream and so on. It can be seen that sleeping with a bottle is a harmful bad feeding habit. Never form such a habit for children. Once you have such a habit, you should get rid of it as soon as possible.
5, is the best way to feed, so you can extend the feeding.
This view is wrong. It is best within 6 months, but after 6 months, the nutrients in breast milk can't fully meet the growth needs of children. Prolonging breastfeeding, some children even hold their mother's nipples all the time, which is often an important cause of dental caries in infants.
Many cases of severe infant dental caries have a long history of breastfeeding. Some children's breastfeeding is extended to two or three years old.
6, as long as the child likes, bottle feeding can be fed to 3 years old.
This view is wrong. Bottle feeding can reach 1 year and a half at the latest. In fact, when the child 10 months, you can exercise the child to start using cups. If you are bottle-fed for a long time, even when you are 3 years old, feeding too many times a day will often lead to serious dental caries in infants.
7, living conditions have improved, children like to eat snacks and drink, let him.
This view is wrong. Snacks and drinks are often rich in sucrose, which increases the frequency of eating and the risk of dental caries. Many children eat too much snacks and drink too much, which leads to serious dental caries of deciduous teeth.
Never eat snacks or drink before going to bed. Eating snacks and drinking drinks before meals will affect children's normal meals, which is not recommended. Snacks and drinks can be used after meals, but pay attention to cleaning your mouth in time after meals.
8. Children will grow their teeth when they should.
The time when teeth erupt varies from person to person, so children will be different. But as long as it is within the normal eruption time range, it is normal.
9. There will be no problem with deciduous teeth, and oral examination is not needed.
This view is wrong. The baby's first oral examination should be after the first tooth erupts, at the latest before. Because, through oral examination, you can know whether the child has bad feeding habits and whether there are early oral lesions, so as to prevent problems before they happen. In the early stage of dental caries.
Because there is no obvious change in the surface of teeth, it is difficult for parents to find it by themselves. If you don't check regularly, dental caries often develop to the late stage, and obvious symptoms will be discovered, but at this time, the best treatment opportunity has been missed, and the child is in great pain.
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