This year’s Dental Day is right around the corner, and according to data from the Third National Oral Health Epidemiologic Survey, nearly 7 out of 10 children suffer from dental caries! Dental caries is unknowingly eroding your children. In contrast, in Europe and the United States, the rate is only 26% in the United Kingdom and even lower in the United States. Many parents do not take children’s dental caries seriously, think it is milk teeth anyway, there will always be a day to fall off, but parents do not know is that dental caries to the child’s harm is accompanied by a lifetime. 1, affecting the normal growth and development of children Children chewing encounter obstacles to reduce the frequency of chewing, gastrointestinal digestion can not absorb all the nutrients of food, the normal growth and development of children easily affected. 2, induced other infectious diseases When the bacteria infected to the tip of the tooth root, which often becomes a lesion tissue, causing systemic infection, so can cause diseases other than oral, such as eye diseases, arthritis, persistent low-grade fever and myocarditis and other diseases. 3, affect the child’s mental health The child’s front teeth caries, speech leakage, may make the child become reluctant to speak, and over time affect the child’s mental health. 4, affecting the child’s eating habits and appetite The child may have discomfort in chewing after dental caries, which may affect the child’s mood to eat, and may cause the child to be paranoid or anorexic after a long time. 5, dental occlusal relationship disorders formed by the milk teeth caries easy to fall out earlier, but then the milk teeth did not grow so the gap between the teeth is more, the neighboring teeth will be to the gap to grow, resulting in occlusal relationship disorders. From the above, dental caries is an important health hazard to children, and let the children learn to brush their teeth, is a simple, feasible and very effective way to prevent dental caries. If you want to hold your baby’s cavities, you actually need 2 minutes and 5 small steps! Learn the popular European and American brushing method, you can also let your baby love brushing teeth! The first step of brushing method: do a good job before brushing prevention Brushing plays a very important role in the prevention of tooth decay, but want to make the preventive effect is more significant, but also to do: rinse your mouth after meals, eat less sweets, do not eat before bedtime. To prevent plaque at the root of the problem, it is important to rinse after meals, eat less sweets, and not eat before bedtime. The possibility of developing dental caries can be minimized by dietary control on a daily basis. Children should avoid excessive sugar intake and overly refined foods. Brushing Step 2: Learn to love brushing Let your baby love brushing, you have to learn to stimulate your baby’s desire to brush. brushing habits around the age of 3 will have a direct impact on the rest of your life. The choice of cartoon shapes will help to cultivate your baby’s interest in brushing. The third step of the tooth brushing method: continue to stimulate the desire to brush teeth Use the baby’s nature – curiosity, to cultivate the baby’s continuous habit. Follow your baby’s exuberant curiosity and stimulate your baby’s continuous desire to brush his or her teeth. The fourth step of the brushing method: careful care during the period of tooth replacement The period of tooth replacement of milk teeth is the peak period of dental caries, but also the most fragile period of the oral cavity, so careful care is very important! Starting from the age of 3 years old, the replacement of milk teeth, more need to clean the mouth, and develop a good habit of brushing teeth. The abnormal loss of milk teeth will directly affect the development of permanent teeth!