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How to protect children's teeth from caries
Caries is easier to prevent than to cure. Even with a bad heredity, if you take the necessary measures in time, you can get completely healthy teeth in a child. For you - the recommendations of a pediatric dentist, periodontist of the clinic "Medissa" Amani Nilab.
The basis of the basics is hygiene.
Not all mothers can properly care for a child’s teeth and can teach their children themselves. Therefore, in order to acquire the right hygiene skills, it is worthwhile to come to a dentist’s consultation. The doctor will tell you how to care for your child’s teeth. He will help you choose a brush and paste for the child.
To begin oral hygiene is necessary before the appearance of the first teeth . It is important to clean the baby's mouth (tongue, cheeks and gums) so that plaque does not form after feeding with breast milk or a mixture and thrush does not develop (a fungal disease in infants). To remove plaque, dip a piece of sterile gauze into distilled or boiled water and gently rub the entire oral mucosa to the child. This procedure should be performed once a day in the evening.
Teeth need to start brushing as soon as the first one appears . The brush for this is selected individually for the first teeth. It is desirable that the doctor participated in the selection of the brush. According to the shape of the teeth of mom and dad, the doctor may suggest what kind of teeth the child will have . The brush is chosen so that its head captures two teeth at once.
Toothpaste is matched by age . As a rule, the first toothpaste is intended for children from 0 to 3 years. Why pasta is chosen strictly according to age? Because it contains fluoride. It is useful and necessary to strengthen the teeth, but it can also be toxic when it accumulates in the body in large quantities. For young children, the allowable amount of fluoride is 500 ppm. With such an amount, even if the child swallows the paste, there will be no consequences. The paste must also contain abrasive, otherwise it will not clean the tooth from plaque.
After cleaning the teeth of the child can not be fed . On the teeth there is a film, which is formed due to saliva. It protects teeth from bacteria, because the whole film deposits on this film. When cleaning the teeth, this film is removed, and if immediately after cleaning to give the child something to eat, the teeth, left without protection, will collapse. Therefore, after brushing your teeth for some time you need to abstain from food, you can only drink water.
Use dental floss . The child is growing up, he has more chewing teeth. Between the teeth there are gaps in which food gets stuck. On these contacts or on the chewing surface most often begins caries. Therefore, dental floss is required for small children. It differs from that used by adults. Children need a special dental floss - superfloss. After brushing your teeth, go to the contacts between the teeth and floss and rinse the mouth.
At some dental clinics, master classes are held where children are taught to brush their teeth using a special technique, painting the movements that are necessary when brushing with a toothbrush. The child through the game remembers the movement of the brush well.
How to protect teeth from caries at the dentist?
In addition to hygiene procedures that should be regularly performed at home, there are methods of caries prevention, which are used by dentists.
To strengthen the front teeth, apply fluoride-containing medication. With chewing teeth, the procedure is different; it is called sealing of fissures. In this procedure, dimples and grooves are sealed on the surface of the chewing teeth, in which plaque often accumulates and caries appears. First, the dentist cleans his teeth, cleaning them of plaque. Then the grooves on the teeth open a thin boron, this removes the remaining plaque. After this, the tooth surface is treated with an antiseptic and sealed with a microfield. This seal is very thin, in the form of a cobweb, the color of the tooth. It protects the tooth from bacteria. After this procedure, you should come to re-admission after 3 months. This is necessary because with the growth of teeth new grooves appear on the chewing surfaces, which also need to be processed.
It is important to combine prophylaxis in a dental office with regular oral hygiene. Unfortunately, prevention, even the highest quality, does not guarantee that caries will not appear. But it significantly reduces the risk of its development.
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