With the development and demand of society, how to do good oral health care for children is very important in daily life. Good oral health care has an important influence on children’s physical and mental health, according to the results of the 2nd national oral health epidemiological sample survey conducted in 1995-1998, the prevalence of dental caries of 5-year-old children’s milk teeth is 76.55% and the caries is 4.48, the prevalence of dental caries of 5-year-old children’s milk teeth in Beijing is 75.56% and the caries is 4.18. The situation of dental caries of permanent teeth is that the caries rate of permanent teeth at the age of 12 is 45.81%, while the caries rate of 65-74 years old is 64.75%. The caries rate of permanent teeth is 45.81%, while the caries rate of 65-74 years old is 64.75%, it can be seen that before 12 years old is the high incidence period of permanent teeth caries, nearly half of our children have caries before 12 years old, so it is very important to prevent “caries from childhood”.
I. How much do you know about the effect of tooth decay?
Tooth decay is also called tooth decay. After people consume sugar and starch, the food residue mixed with saliva will form a kind of adhesive material called plaque. The plaque will be attached to the teeth for a long time and cause tooth decay.
The harm of tooth decay of milk teeth.
1, affect the development of the body infancy and early childhood is the key interruption of the child’s growth and development, the intake of nutrition, digestion are related to the health of the milk teeth. The baby feels the pressure pain when eating food, and dare not chew hard, so that the food cannot be chewed well, which affects the baby’s digestion and absorption of food.
2, affect the facial development of early childhood is the developmental stage of the new host development of the face. Because the early loss of milk teeth or afraid to chew, it will cause the jawbone to be underdeveloped, making the face lose harmony and beauty.
3.Affect the health of permanent teeth The good or bad of the milk teeth will affect the dental quality of permanent teeth, the milk teeth caries, then the permanent teeth will start to grow under the environment of growing caries bacteria, and the permanent teeth will form new caries. The early loss of milk teeth can cause the disorder of biting relationship of neighboring teeth and lead to the misalignment of permanent teeth.
Second, why the milk teeth are easy to get caries
The high incidence of caries in children’s dentition is mainly because
1.The calcification degree of milk teeth is low and the acid resistance is poor.
Children have bad eating habits and love to eat sweets and snacks, and the texture is soft, so it is easy to adhere to the tooth surface after eating, which provides conditions for the growth and reproduction of caries-causing bacteria.
3.Children sleep for a long time, saliva secretion is low, and the self-cleaning effect of the mouth is poor, which is also conducive to the growth of caries-causing bacteria.
4.The physiological gap of milk teeth is large, which is easy to embed food.
5.Children cannot brush their teeth well, and there are many residues on the teeth.
How to effectively prevent children from tooth decay
There are more details for children’s caries prevention, but they are easy to be ignored usually.
1.Mother’s health care during pregnancy should be done well. Eating more vegetables, fruits, tea, milk and other food and drinks containing certain amount of fluoride will have obvious benefits to the future dental development of children and reduce the chance of tooth decay.
2. Avoid the “bottle syndrome” of infants and children. Also correct the bad oral habits such as finger sucking.
Parents should brush the baby’s teeth. Before the baby’s milk teeth erupt, parents can use a piece of gauze about 5 cm square in length and width dipped in light salt water, gently wipe the baby’s gums to remove the plaque.
4.To close the sockets of the newly erupted permanent molars and premolars.
5.Pull out the retained milk teeth in time.
6.Use gap retainers if necessary to maintain the gap of missing teeth and facilitate the normal eruption of permanent teeth.
7.Advocate eating candy before meal or drinking water. Additional meals between two meals are preferably fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, juice, cookies or pecans, chestnuts and popcorn.
8, the number of times a day children eat candy should be controlled at 1-2 times, and should also control its number, otherwise children in the mouth with sugar for too long, both to limit the chemical substances in the saliva on the neutralization of acid production by bacteria, but also will encourage the reproduction of bacteria in the mouth.
9.Tea has the effect of protecting teeth, especially for children, and it can be used as an agent to prevent tooth decay.
Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to children’s dental problems at all times to achieve early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment.