Does it really matter if your baby teeth don’t grow well? Many parents have a misconception: it does not matter if the milk teeth do not grow well, sooner or later they will be replaced. Professional dentist reminded: “children generally from 6 months to start growing the first milk teeth, about 6 weeks old began to replace teeth, to 12 weeks old basically replaced, milk teeth throughout the child 12 years long, this stage is also an important stage of child growth and development.” Children’s tooth replacement period generally begins at the age of 6 weeks, if the child has not started to replace teeth by the age of 6 weeks, parents, please do not worry, generally from the age of 5 weeks to 8 weeks to begin to replace teeth are normal, generally 12 weeks to 14 weeks of age to replace teeth end. The baby teeth have many important roles: 1, therefore, young parents should recognize the important role of the baby teeth, from the child’s first tooth eruption is to protect, to develop a good habit of brushing; completely eliminate the breast teeth is a temporary, irrelevant misconception, so that your babies have a healthy, beautiful teeth. 2, children during the period of tooth replacement will appear eruptive gingivitis, which is temporary, teeth in the eruption, the gums cover the tooth surface, the teeth have not yet grown, repeated chewing will bite to the tooth surface to cause injury. In addition, when the teeth have just erupted, there will be food debris on the surface, so there is a possibility of gingivitis. 3, children are most commonly crowded gingivitis, children during tooth replacement due to tooth misalignment, crowding, tooth ectopic pressure caused by gum inflammation, coupled with poor brushing habits, such as the intention to cause the breeding of bacteria, will affect oral hygiene. When children are small they do not realize the importance of oral hygiene and cannot insist on brushing and rinsing their teeth, which will lead to gingivitis over time. And some children eat hard things to cut the oral mucosa, unbalanced diet, lip biting and other bad oral habits cause oral ulcers, which also lead to gum inflammation. Therefore, parents should often observe the state of their children’s oral hygiene, pay attention to oral health care, found problems should be promptly to the hospital. 4, change finger sucking, grinding teeth, biting the lower lip, open mouth breathing and other bad habits that can cause misshapen jaw, if there is a child rhinitis to be treated early, which is also a factor affecting oral health, eat more fruits, vegetables and other foods containing coarse fiber, will play a self-cleaning effect on the teeth.