Understand bottle caries
Bottle caries, also known as breast-feeding caries, is a kind of dental caries caused by continuous sucking of bottles when babies sleep.
The most common manifestation is the large area caries on the labial side and adjacent surface of the anterior teeth, which will spread to the canines and even the molars behind them over time.
What is the bottle made of?
Long-term feeding with a bottle, the bottle is close to the upper deciduous teeth;
2. Feed milk, fruit juice and other liquids with high sugar content with a bottle.
3. Primary teeth have thin dentin, poor mineralization, immature surface structure and weak anti-caries ability;
Some babies like to hold the bottle for a long time. After feeding, the baby falls asleep quickly and won't clean his mouth.
How to prevent bottle dental caries?
Development stage of bottle caries
The initial symptoms of long bottle caries are not obvious, mainly because white demineralized zone will appear at the root of anterior teeth. 2. With the further deepening of dental caries, the color of demineralized zone will be deeper and deeper, and the range will be larger and larger, surrounding the teeth, so that the hard tissue of the teeth will be peeled off. 3. Finally, the teeth become conical and even form residual roots.
How to prevent bottle dental caries?
Sleep without drinking milk for a long time
When the baby's mouth contains milk, the teeth will be covered with a layer of milk film for a long time, and the baby's teeth will naturally have dental caries.
Sleep without a pacifier
Because, when there is something in the baby's mouth, saliva secretion will be reduced, milk can not be diluted and swallowed, and it will also cause the tragedy of teeth soaking milk.
Clean the mouth
After feeding milk, feed some warm boiled water to clean your mouth.
You can also soak sterilized sterile gauze or finger-covered toothbrush in normal saline.
Clean the tooth surface with water or cold boiled water.
Bottle caries is the tooth decay caused by children's long-term dependence on bottles to drink milk. It often occurs in the adjacent surface between the teeth near the lips of the upper incisors and the incisors. Once a baby has a decayed tooth, it will not recover itself.
In particular, the baby has the habit of sleeping with a bottle at night, laying the groundwork for dental caries.
When the baby sleeps, the saliva secretion is less, and the oral ability is inherently weak. In addition, high sugar such as milk powder adheres to teeth, and oral bacteria will multiply in large numbers. After a night of corrosion, teeth will be corroded by acid, forming tooth decay.