Dry Goods Coming (No.38) Baby’s Deciduous Teeth Health Care

Teeth in what?

    Generally, babies about 6 months old will grow their first incisor in the middle of the lower row, But as long as the nutrition is balanced, Other aspects of the body develop normally, It is normal for a baby to begin to have teeth in his early teens, Parents need not worry too much. With no movement over one year old, Can use X-ray examination after 1 year old and 3 months to see if it is [congenital toothless germ]. Some babies have teeth erupting at the time of birth or shortly after birth. Early sprouting teeth usually have not formed their roots and are often easy to fall off, which may be swallowed into the belly or even inhaled into the airway by the baby, resulting in serious consequences.

How to protect deciduous teeth?

  • Does caries of deciduous teeth need to be mended?

Yes.

Once caries occurs in deciduous teeth, on the one hand, it will affect the chewing function and nutrition intake of the baby during this period; On the other hand, caries or early loss of deciduous teeth will interfere with the eruption of permanent teeth at this position, so the caries of the baby should be handled in time.

  • When did what start brushing his baby’s teeth?

Once the first deciduous tooth erupts, parents should start to pay attention to the cleaning of their baby’s teeth. In the initial stage, parents can wipe the tooth surface with gauze or cotton swabs dipped in clear water.

  • Apart from brushing your teeth carefully, are there any other measures to prevent your baby from growing [worm teeth]?

Yes. Fluoride is applied, that is, fluorine-containing preparations are regularly applied to the tooth surface of babies, and the corrosion resistance of enamel is improved through the local action of fluorine and teeth, that is, the caries resistance of teeth is improved.

What if the deciduous teeth are not neat?

    Avoid the baby’s frequent finger sucking, lip sucking, tongue spitting and other actions, So as not to affect jaw development. If deciduous teeth fall off prematurely, To hurry to the stomatological hospital for [gap maintenance] treatment, Otherwise, it will affect the development and eruption of permanent teeth. If the baby appears [earth wraps the sky], that is, the lower tooth wraps the upper tooth, it will begin to correct around the age of 4, so as not to hinder the development of jaws. If you miss the golden treatment time, it will be more complicated to want to correct later, and it will also increase the possibility of surgical correction after adulthood.