Many parents in the United States are more aware of their children’s dental care and listen very well to their doctors and follow their doctor’s orders later. Parents take their children to the dentist for the first time, not only to treat dental problems and see how the teeth are developing, but also to ask the doctor to evaluate feeding practices and correct feeding practices that are not good for dental health. Dental care is important in early childhood, as it is a matter of the baby’s dental health later in life, so first parents must know what to do and when. Dental care schedule: 1. Care and cleaning begins with the eruption of the first milk tooth (6-12 months), when the child should be taken to a pediatric dentist. After the eruption of the maxillary front teeth, you should consider to stop frequent night feeding (including breastfeeding and artificial bottle feeding) to prevent the occurrence of severe bottle caries; change the bad feeding habit of lying down and holding the bottle to drink milk to prevent the occurrence of anterior milk teeth retrusion (“enamel”). 2.Visit the specialist dentist every three months for check-up (early detection of demineralization); because most of the problems of children’s teeth are caries, visiting the dentist once every three months can basically detect the problems early and treat them early, so that the pain of children’s dental treatment will be smaller and will not cause serious fear psychologically. 3.Fluoride application (prevention of smooth surface caries) starts from 3 years old, the latest guideline of American Academy of Pediatrics in August 2014 suggests that the first milk tooth eruption can start to apply fluoride; you can start to use fluoride toothpaste to brush teeth, but the dosage should be controlled well (the size of rice grain is recommended in the early stage, and can be increased to the size of soybean after the child learns to spit out the foam) to avoid excessive fluoride intake. 4, 2-3 years old to carry out breast molar sulcus closure (prevention of sulcus caries, generally need to be treated under protective restraint). 5.Use dental floss to clean the back teeth gap from the age of 3 years old (to prevent adjacent surface caries, the onset of adjacent surface caries is high from the age of 3-5 years old, the onset is hidden and easy to miss, often found when it is extremely close to the dental nerve). 6, 6 years old first permanent molar (commonly known as “six-age teeth”) to carry out the sulcus closure (the most important, belongs to the national free project, but the national free is generally arranged in the second half of the second grade of elementary school contact the hospital nearby, but many children six-age teeth erupt early, it is recommended that after eruption to the clinic for inspection, if the sulcus is deep and poor oral hygiene should be as early as possible at their own expense) (If the sulcus is deep and the oral hygiene is poor, you should pay for the sulcus closure as soon as possible, instead of waiting for the free program); because the eruption time of “six-year-old teeth” is earlier than other permanent teeth, the enamel on the surface is not completely calcified when it first erupts, plus the occlusal surface is large, the tip of the tooth is high, the sulcus and fissure is deep and small, so it is easy to accumulate food residue and form plaque, forming dental caries. 7.Check around 10 years old to pay attention to the presence of malformed central cusps of premolar teeth (I don’t know how many children have been harmed). 8, 12 years old first two premolar teeth, second permanent molar teeth for sulcus closure. Healthy dental advice: 1. 1 new information: build a dental care file for your child When your child’s first milk teeth, in your local children’s hospital dentistry or dental hospital, you can build a “dental care file” for your child, it can facilitate you to take your child to do regular oral examination. Usually every six months, the doctor will record the growth of your child’s baby teeth, clean them, and apply fluoride to them after the age of 3. Once abnormalities such as growth deformities or dental caries are detected in the baby teeth, they can be treated in time. If the hospital in your area does not have this service, then you should insist to take your child for oral examination at least once every six months. 2.1 warning: early detection and treatment of tooth decay Once you find plaque or tooth decay on your child’s milk teeth, you should go to dentistry for examination as soon as possible. Although children’s milk teeth will be replaced by permanent teeth, if the decay of milk teeth is serious and hurts the gums and roots, it will definitely affect the growth of permanent teeth. 3.4 ways to make tooth brushing fun: (1) You have to set an example. Let your child watch how you clean your teeth at a very young age. (2) Let your child brush his or her teeth in front of a mirror so he or she will have a visual understanding of the matter of brushing teeth. (3) You can form a rule at home: brush your teeth first, then listen to the story. (4) You should make your child insist on brushing his teeth, but don’t be the focus of arguments, or give up brushing for a while if he resists strongly. In our country, there is another “obstacle” to children’s dental care is the father and sister grandparents, because the elderly care more children, the elderly thinking is old-fashioned, can not accept the advanced concept of dental care, interfering with the child’s mother and father to help protect the child’s teeth. Therefore, once there is a disagreement with the elderly, it is often difficult for young people to convince the elderly. Dental care is a lifelong matter, childhood depends on parents to raise their children good habits, good awareness of dental care, and regular checkups are very important! Parents should take the responsibility to give their children a good mouthful of teeth.