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.

What are the causes?
To see tooth must coexist several factors:

* Some bacteria (often considered an infectious disease).

* Presence of sugar in the mouth. Most foods contain different types of sugars or carbohydrates. For example, milk containing lactose or bread or cereals contain starch.

* The sugars and bacteria to coexist together in dental plaque for some time. Dental plaque is a thin layer composed of cells of the mouth and food debris, which are attached to the teeth, especially in the cracks between other teeth and gumline. That is where live bacteria that cause cavities.
The bacteria feed on sugars and produce acid substances as a waste that erode tooth enamel.

What are they like?
A caries begins as a mere speck in the tooth. At first, it appears that the enamel loses brightness and becomes more opaque. It soon becomes a small brown area where the enamel sinks.

The gap grows and deepens. You can destroy the entire visible portion of the tooth or it may be a small hole that penetrates to the root of the tooth.

Cavities start to hurt when they reach the pulp of the tooth, ie where the nervios.Subir

What do we do?
The first step is prevention from birth and before the baby teeth appear.

Small cavities in baby teeth can be covered with a layer of fluoride, known as “sealed.”

Once produced the cavity, the only solution is the filling. Dentists call it “curettage.”

Can complicate?
Some toddlers have cavities in all teeth. This causes them problems when eating. In this way, they cost a lot to chew food.

They are called baby bottle tooth decay to those in the front incisors of an infant. In general, are caused by the habit of putting honey or sugar on a pacifier or by continually giving sweet drinks like juice.

The other complication is the abscess. In children, infection of the root of a tooth, usually causes a lump in the gum that is filled with pus and can be opened, known as fistula.

Can it be prevented?
Although babies are born without teeth, inside your gums are already a few small sketches of what will be their baby teeth. These will be stronger if the mother takes a fluoride supplement throughout pregnancy.

When the baby is born, we must remember that:

* Breastfeeding promotes a better development of the jaws and teeth bottles.

* There should accustom the baby to use pacifiers. Avoid it if the child does not show too much emphasis, “hobby” or dependency. As children settle down or even better! when they take in their arms, talk to them or serve. Remember that you should never put honey, sugar or condensed milk on the pacifier to soothe a crying baby. If you get used to the sweet, when your teeth appear cavities are formed quickly.

* Bottles night. Although during the first months of life, babies tend to eat often, including during the night, after they get teeth is recommended not to give bottles of dawn. The reason is that while falling asleep at once, the language does not move and no “clean” the teeth. Then there are remnants of milk (with or without grain) may begin to favor Cairo.

* Dental hygiene should start from which the first teeth. Parents can use a handkerchief or a wet gasita to clean the teeth of the baby until 15-18 months. After that age, your baby wants to imitate adults and have their own toothbrush. He knows not brushing properly, it is time to begin to guide your hand to learn. Before age 4 should not use toothpaste, because it is going to swallow. This should be done after every meal, but at least once a day, before putting the child to sleep.

* Do not start the baby in the consumption of sweets or sweet drinks between meals offer.

How useful are the medicines?
Fluoride is a substance important in preventing tooth decay. In many places, water use food is supplemented with fluoride.

You may take the mother during pregnancy, and later, the baby can do it in the form of drops or tablets (dose depends on age, but also that the tap water has enough of this mineral).

If these symptoms appear every time a child will grow teeth, then the parents blame the child teething process as the cause.

But if these symptoms occur and do not come with teeth that grow, then there is the possibility of other conditions that occur in children such as ear infections.

Some babies are sometimes uncomfortable with this teething process, so parents can do something to help calm the child and reduce uncomfortable, namely:

1. Leaving the baby something cold to chew. One of the most popular ways to overcome discomfort in the mouth is chewed to let things cool down. A cloth soaked in cold water can reduce swelling in the gums or giving small ice made from fruit juice.
2. Helping make babies to be calm and reduce stress. Sometimes the stress of teething can be worse than the result of physical illness. Try to soothe your baby with soft music, talking to him or give him gentle massage.
3. If this condition does not help alleviate the condition of the baby, it could not hurt to consult a doctor to know there are other conditions that follow or not.

Parents often think that the babies will start teething and drooling are often put his finger in his mouth.

The first teeth that grow can occur anytime between ages 3-15 months, but most of the average baby’s first tooth at age 4-7 months.

Teething process is relatively painless in infants or children, but when accompanied by the onset of symptoms usually occurs 3-4 days before the first tooth appears.

Most experts would say teething does not cause a fever or high fever. Although his fever, the temperature that occur in low levels and usually occurs when the tooth will appear.

But if the child has a fever while teething, it is probably only a coincidence or are there other conditions that cause the child’s fever.

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.

In essence, the mother wants her son made it through a future full of tougher competition than what happened today. For that, children need to be fostered from an early age

‘How to survive’ in the future
‘How to survive’, according to them, rather than being number one in the school, because number one is not guaranteed to survive. ‘How to survive’ requires creativity and freedom, not a quitter, and able to face various problems. The learning process can be hampered simply because dental health problems, because dental problems can make a child lose self-confidence, and loss of concentration.

No doubt, the teeth are the most important human organs. Without teeth, bad men will not in digesting food. Tooth serves to chew any food into the mouth to be forwarded to the human body, of course the food was fine. This process will continue ranging from childhood to adulthood.

Growth begins with the growing teeth of two lower jaw incisors at 6-9 month-old baby was followed by the upper jaw incisors. At the age of 7-10 months to grow two front incisors second (in addition to the first incisors) jaw up or down. Sometimes the two incisors in the lower jaw to grow more before the second bicuspid upper jaw.

Then, the front teeth to grow at 16-20 months of age. Canine teeth also began to appear at the same age. The second molars grow at 23-30 months of age. Usually, the child will have a full milk teeth (20) at the age of 3 years. Then, one by one on the milk teeth and permanent teeth are replaced by numbers 32 pieces, which begins at 5-6 years old children until the youngest molars emerge at age 19-22 years.

Started teething is an important process of growth of a child. Parents need to know how to care for the child’s teeth, and parents should teach their children how to maintain good teeth. Although it still has baby teeth, a child must get serious attention from parents. Therefore, the condition of milk teeth will determine the growth of the child’s permanent teeth later.

Caring for your teeth too early to avoid tooth decay process, such as cavities, porous, and swelling of the gums. Should be socialized to check regularly to the dentist every six months. Dental care habits can begin in infancy, using a cotton gauze or a warmed and then rubbed on your baby’s gums. If the child is a little older, parents should help to start a routine brushing your teeth. The trick is to teach how to hold and brush his teeth properly.

In addition, parents should pay attention to diet his son. Does including foods that can damage the teeth or not. Do not be too much to give children foods that are sweet and sticky, because these foods easily left behind and attached to the teeth and if too often and long will result in no good. Sweet and sticky foods that will react in the mouth and form acids that damage tooth enamel.

This is what will cause interference, such as cavities, tooth loss before their time, interference with the size, shape and number of teeth. To prevent this, provide fiber foods, like vegetables and fruits, which require mastication process repeated.

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.