It is rare that a baby under one year already have cavities, but to prevent them we must begin to act even before the appearance of this disease.
For over forty years, fluoride has been recognized for its caries preventive qualities. There are three basic ways to provide the benefits of fluoride to your child: (1) community drinking water, fluoride, (2) application of fluoride to tooth surfaces, (3) fluoride taken orally. He will benefit from all three. The decision depends on the advice of your dentist.
Mary is an experienced dental patient, but is 7 years old. Their behavior in the dental office is unusual among people their age. It supports a long history: it occupies the recliner for four years. His control of the fear of electronic minitaladradora is an exception in the growing child group is forced to go to the dentist because of dental caries have swept molars, premolars and even the front panels. She took a seat and, after being poked gently into the gum to numb the jaw, is able to stand quietly, “like a lady” according to his dentist, during the 20 or 30 minutes it takes to repair the part of the day. It is an atypical case.
“At that age, dental treatment is almost impossible, unless the child is induced anesthesia of the entire body, because only with local sedation mouth does not stand still,” says Dr. Sandra Pereyra, dentist Mary. Completely sedate a child means acting in an operating room, not in the dentist’s office, and requires the involvement of an anesthesiologist, in addition to the dentist. The essential factor in the stillness while speaking is not a minor issue if, as Mary, the patient accumulates caries by up to 6 of the 20 teeth that occupy the mouth of a child.
The dentist Patricia Morales explains that a child usually has 20 teeth that are the primary teeth or milk teeth.
“It’s important to bring the child regularly. I would say that after three years if the child can, at least a visual examination to detect if your child has cavities, “said Morales.
In addition to making visual examination, Morales said, if the child is left, you can make a clean to get used to going to the dentist routinely.
The presence of all teeth provides a number of benefits: A good chewing. This will create a correct bolus. Helps the child’s socialization with others. Facilitates learning. Dentolabiales pronouncing words correctly.
Therefore, parents should inculcate in themselves a principle that ‘I want my child free from dental pain, and give them a good start in life, so they can compete in their future’. Likewise reflected in the results of internal discussions held by the Cross with a number of mothers over the age of 30.
Introduce and familiarize the child a toothbrush can be started when the upper and lower teeth respectively numbered four or six. Trial period of about 2-3 weeks.
Often parents have to work hard and continuously so that the child does not shut his mouth every time you brush your teeth. But do not worry, there’s always a fun way to lead children to like this activity.
The mouth fulfills vital functions in humans. It is the first contact with the outside world, all the nutrients pass through it.
The expressions of joy and sadness, and speech sounds are produced with the activity of the tongue, lips, cheeks and successively with the changes wrought by the eruption of teeth.
Oral hygiene is the most effective preventive measure during early childhood. At age 6 the first permanent molar erupts behind the baby molars, without replacing any of the 20 teeth in the mouth. Often, if there is no discomfort, neither parents nor the child perceive their eruption.
The lower front teeth (central incisors) will refill in the same period and the fall of the first baby tooth attracts the attention of the child and family group who shares his way to the permanent dentition. Since its correct location in the dental arch is organized the rest of the permanent dentition.