1, the milk teeth and permanent teeth at the latest what comes out ah?
Parents do not have to worry too much about the slow emergence of baby teeth. Generally until about three years old, the baby’s milk teeth will be completely come out. At the same time, most of the permanent teeth are also in the process of breeding. When your baby enters elementary school, his or her first six-year-old teeth will appear. Usually after the senior year of elementary school, the baby’s baby teeth will all fall out and be replaced by a mouth full of permanent teeth. However, some children do not get their teeth replaced until they reach secondary school.
2.What should I do if I cry during teething?
When the baby’s teeth first emerge, the baby may feel uncomfortable because of the inflammation of the gums, some babies will cry especially easily at this stage, and some babies will especially like to bite things after they start teething. Parents can massage the baby’s teething bed and gently massage the red and swollen flesh of the baby’s teeth with their fingers. You can also give him some teething sticks and other sharp and hard foods to bite on. However, don’t take it lightly that your baby is crying at this stage because of teething, there are other possibilities, such as infection and inflammation in the body.
3. At what age do children start to brush their teeth?
(1) At the age of 1, you can “brush” your baby’s teeth, but instead of using a toothbrush, parents can wrap their fingers in clean gauze or finger covers and dip them in water to help clean the baby’s teeth and attachments on the dental bed.
(2) Children between 2 and 3 years old can brush their teeth with a special toothbrush for babies, however, at this time the child will not yet vomit, so use edible toothpaste that does not contain fluoride.
(3) From the age of three or four, you can teach your child to spit out toothpaste, that is, to brush their teeth like adults. However, you should use toothpaste that contains less fluoride and is designed for children.
(4) When the permanent teeth are all grown out, you can let the child gradually adapt to the adult toothpaste.
4.How much toothpaste is appropriate?
Figuratively speaking, before the age of 3, toothpaste can be as long as the size of a “green bean”, and after the age of 5, the amount can be increased to a “soybean”. TV commercials squeeze a toothpaste to toothbrush “full coverage”, in fact, toothpaste manufacturers in order to speed up the sales of propaganda, even adults do not need to use so much toothpaste.
5. Is brushing once a day in the morning and once in the evening enough?
Brushing twice a day should be enough, but the key is the action and time of brushing. Nowadays, most people brush their teeth for too short a time, and it is reasonable to say that 2-3 minutes is enough each time. In fact, it is more important to rinse your mouth in time after eating something good than to brush your teeth in the morning and evening, especially after eating sweets and some foods that stick to your teeth easily. The key to caring for your teeth is to keep your mouth clean at all times, so that the food residue stays on the surface of your teeth and in the cracks of your teeth for as short a time as possible.
6.Can I use toothpicks for food embedded in milk teeth?
There are physiological gaps between the baby teeth, which are located between the mandibular lateral incisors and the mandibular milk cusp and between the maxillary milk cusp and the maxillary first milk molar, which are very easy to embed food. Some children have fully developed jaws and have sparse milk teeth, which are also prone to food embedding. However, since children’s teeth are so delicate, it is not recommended that parents use toothpicks to pick out the embedded material, as this may damage the tooth structure if they are not careful. Flossing is a good solution.
7.What should I take my baby to the dentist for?
In the United States, the recommendation of the dental association is that parents should take their baby to the dentist’s office for an oral examination when he or she turns one year old. If parents can ensure that their baby keeps his or her mouth clean every day, they can wait until the baby is three years old before going to the dentist.
Of course, you must not hesitate to take your baby to the doctor when the following unexpected situations occur
(1) When the baby complains of a toothache.
(2) When your baby’s tooth feels uncomfortable with hot or cold food or drinks.
(3) A small piece of the tooth has fallen out or the tooth has been damaged by a fall.
Is it right to say that “it doesn’t matter if the baby tooth is broken, it will fall out eventually anyway”?
This is a misconception. Healthy baby teeth ensure the normal development of permanent teeth and guide them to erupt properly. If the baby teeth are not developed normally or suffer from tooth decay, it will directly affect the development of permanent teeth, and if the tooth decay is especially serious, it will affect the root apical part of the baby teeth and even the embryo of permanent teeth below. Therefore, parents can’t take it lightly, once the caries is found, we should ask the doctor to treat and fill it in time.
8.What should I do if my baby’s teeth are not aligned properly?
Orthodontic braces are very popular in western countries. Starting from the age of 12 when permanent teeth come out, orthodontic braces can really help children to have a mouthful of well-aligned teeth. However, braces usually take at least a year to a year and a half of continuous use to be effective, and there is little point in stopping halfway through. Be sure to get your child’s full consent before orthodontic treatment, and encourage him to persevere.
9, loose teeth should be pulled out immediately?
Nowadays, many children have loose teeth, parents are anxious to take him to extract them. In fact, this is not a good practice. The old teeth will help the new teeth to grow, if they are pulled out too early, the new teeth will grow slowly and may be “grabbed” by the adjacent teeth, which will eventually affect the whole arrangement structure.
Unless the new tooth has already broken through the ground, do not rush to pull out a loose baby tooth. Generally speaking, the natural replacement of a tooth takes as long as six months.
10.What if my child does not cooperate with the dentist?
Taking your baby to the dentist is not an easy task, some children are extremely uncooperative, some hospitals used to tie his hands and feet and force him to be treated, but nowadays there are few hospitals that do this. Forcing a child to see a dentist can cause him to develop a traumatic experience and a lifelong fear of dentists later in life.
Parents must make the necessary preparations to take their children to the dentist, and communicate with them more beforehand. It is best to play “role-play” with the child, with the parents as the doctor and the baby as the patient, and then let the baby be the doctor and the parents as the patient, so that he can gradually adapt to this feeling. If you can not see once, parents should be patient, take him more times, so that he has a sense of affinity for the environment, the heart no longer have pressure.
11.Can children go to the dentist under general anesthesia?
It is true that there is such a practice in foreign countries, after the child is put under general anesthesia, the dental treatment will be smoother. However, in China, we do not have this kind of anesthesia technology and medical condition at present, and we usually only use local anesthesia for filling teeth.