Research on women with gum disease have shown that oral bacteria can pass into the bloodstream, causing inflammation and higher levels of the hormone prostaglandin which, towards the end of pregnancy may trigger labor.

However, pregnant women can significantly reduce this risk by ensuring excellent oral hygiene.

How Sonicare FlexCare gives you the key?
The manufacturer of the sonic toothbrush most recommended by dental professionals has announced a technological breakthrough with the launch of Sonicare FlexCare. Philips Oral Healthcare has developed and improved the performance of your sonic toothbrush, to provide an outstanding plaque removal even in the most difficult to reach areas.

The importance of cleanliness and hygiene brush
In addition, Philips has designed the first UV sanitizer combined with charging the toothbrush, which helps keep brush heads safe from potentially harmful microorganisms. The sanitizer helps to kill germs, to get a brush head clean and hygienic in a cycle of only 10 minutes.

Remember your health and that of your family is most important. In addition, a beautiful smile is the best of the letters.

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.

In front of a mirror, lap children with our backs to the position. That way the child will see for yourself how this tooth brushing activities.

Even the new kid has 4 teeth on the front top and bottom, brushing technique remains the same as brushing technique as adults, namely:
- Keep it slowly from the gum to the tooth surface (vertical).
- For the chewing surfaces, both top and bottom teeth, brushing technique is to pull the brush toward the outer mouth (horizontal).
- Brushing teeth should not be a two-way or back and forth. So, just enough direction. If this technique is done properly, the result could be a maximum of gum health even while awake.

Choose a special toothbrush for children. Or, if your child’s teeth is less than 4 use a sterile gauze soaked in water has boiled. With wrapped it around her index finger, “toothbrush” was proven to be effective because it can reach places where food remains difficult to clean. If the child is able to receive a toothbrush, continue the habit of cleaning his teeth with a toothbrush.

A similar cleaning should be done on the ceiling, walls of the mouth, tongue and gum’s surfaces.

For better recognition stage does not use toothpaste. Use only boiled warm water.

After walking a few weeks and the kids are not doing more rejection, no harm in introducing gradually a special toothpaste for children. There are a variety of flavors can be chosen.

Because children can not gargle, do not forget to provide a damp cloth or tissue. Of course this should not be done constantly because children still need to be taught how to rinse and remove it.

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.

Use Examples
Parents can apply teeth cleaning habits for the whole family. How:
1. Starting from yourself.
2. Make brushing activity as one that needs to be done at least twice a day.
3. Encourage your child to see her father, mother, or sister brushing teeth.
4. While trying this habit, tell children about the benefits of brushing teeth.
5. Do not quickly give up when the baby looks could not catch what we deliver. Particularly since the early toddler is still difficult to understand. Explanation of tooth decay such as holes, there are germs or become swollen, the child is something that is abstract and difficult to understand. Use a simpler explanation.

If little things like this done with consistent, children will imitate what they exemplified. Moreover, if the sample is viewed children as something fun, fun, and not at all boring.

What exact form? Of course, parents themselves who know what can make the child interested. Brushing teeth need not be done formally in the bathroom. It could be done with a little dance, mirror, and singing with joy after the rinse.

Dental care and mouth from an early age is critical dental and mouth until the end of life. Some teeth and mouth disease can be experienced by children and infants when treatment is not done well, such as holes in the surface of the teeth, gums become inflamed, and the sprue.

Tooth decay generally occurs at an early age (children and infants) usually because of food / drink. Sweet foods such as brown and sticky like lunkhead if not immediately brushed / mouthwash will be left behind and causing tooth decay. Also drinks like tea, coffee, soft drinks, and cigarettes can cause a thin layer on the tooth called the stain so teeth become dull color, brown. Coarse layer stain is easily attached to the remains of food and bacteria, which eventually form a plaque, if not cleaned will harden and become tartar, and can spread to the roots of teeth. The result is easy bleeding tooth, wobbly teeth simple and easy to date.

How is the treatment? Consider the following steps:

Familiarize in tooth brushing. Caring your teeth can begin in infancy, this can be done by your child’s teeth cleaned by using cotton gauze or a rinse with warm water, then slowly digosokan on your baby’s gums. If the child is growing up, we as parents have to help introduce teeth brushing routine. Way that can be done by providing learning and brushed his teeth holding.

Eating noticed the child’s diet should also be kept in mind the old. Is the food consumed can damage the teeth or vice versa. Do not be too much to give children eat sweet foods like candy, chocolate, biscuits and foods that are sweet and easily attached digusi. Such foods usually reacts in the mouth and eventually forming acids that can damage tooth enamel. The effects, 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, because these foods are self-cleansing (cleansing) which require mastication process repeatedly.

If it wants to give a brown foods, sweets, biscuits and other sweets should be at the right time, for example, after lunch. When you have finished the child was told to brush his teeth clean.

After 3 years, if not ingest toothpaste, fluoride toothpaste can be used that have proven anticaries action. Brush should be placed in very small quantities, sufficient to be the size of a lentil. Current trends in the use of fluoride in caries preventive focus on local application of fluoride toothpaste in the form of daily use, daily or weekly rinses and professional topically according to patient risk.

The use of fluoride supplements by eating when no fluoride in drinking water is reduced to its local action in cases of children at high risk of dental disease.