Brushing is the most effective, convenient and easy way to prevent dental disease. After the age of 2, your baby’s white teeth will have basically grown in, so it’s time to officially start learning how to brush. There are three stages of tooth brushing training for young children. Stage 1: When your baby starts to get the first tooth, that is, from about six months onwards, you should “brush” your baby’s teeth. Of course, the brushing mentioned here does not use a toothbrush, but the parents use clean gauze wrapped around their index finger dipped in clean water to help the baby clean the mouth, wash away the teeth and dental bed on the attachment, this oral care method generally to last for two and a half years old, when the oral cavity of the milk teeth all erupted. The second stage: from the age of two and a half years, parents should choose the toothbrush for children of this age, twice a day in the morning and evening, standing behind the child, hands to teach children to master the correct method of brushing teeth (brush method). Because children of this age have certain understanding and ability to express themselves, as long as the parents follow the instructions, from the shallow to the deep patient guidance, I believe it is not difficult for children to master the correct method of brushing teeth. The third stage: from the age of three, children have been through half a year of transition training, should be able to complete the brushing action independently. But at this time, young children are still very naughty, lack of initiative and self-consciousness, parents usually have to play a supervisory guidance role, so that children develop good oral hygiene habits, so that children have a healthy and beautiful teeth. Some babies brush their teeth in the morning and at night, but their teeth are still yellow and decayed, in the end, what is wrong? This is because babies have a lot of bad habits that hurt their teeth, what are these bad habits that are easy to ignore? Recently, the U.S. “network of medical doctors” website summarized several often ignored dental habits, your baby are guilty of which mistakes? 1, drink cough syrup without rinsing. As we all know, sugar can cause tooth decay, but we usually ignore some “invisible” sugar. Most of the cough medicine contains sugar, after taking cough syrup, throat tablets, you must brush your teeth or rinse your mouth; 2, hot and cold alternately. Hot food and cold food will stimulate the gums and cause toothache. Especially some people are used to chewing ice, which stimulates the gums and at the same time wears down the teeth, even making them break; 3, drink milk before bedtime. Many mothers will give their babies some juice, milk, etc. before bedtime, not knowing that this hurts the baby’s teeth; 4, grinding teeth. Stress and so on can cause grinding teeth at bedtime, making teeth seriously damaged. Teeth grinding habit is difficult to control, avoid eating raw food during the day can reduce the pain and damage caused by teeth grinding; 5, overeating. Overeating often brings excess sugar and acid, leading to tooth decay. In addition, the mouth secretes less saliva when snacking, and food is more likely to remain on the teeth. Especially starchy foods, such as potato chips. It is best to floss the food residue in the teeth after eating to reduce the damage to the teeth; 6, often drink carbonated beverages such as cola will also make the teeth more likely to be stained and demineralized. What should parents do to maintain children’s oral health? Because children are still young, they do not know how to protect their teeth and how to develop good oral hygiene habits, so parents should teach by example and strictly supervise, so that children can develop oral hygiene habits since childhood and adhere to them. In order to maintain children’s oral hygiene, parents should do: 1, train the baby’s brushing habits. From the perspective of oral hygiene requirements, the baby should clean the mouth from childhood. Since the oral bacteria from the human infancy, it grows and multiplies in the mouth. The practice is to use a sterilized clean gauze dipped in light salt water, lightly wipe the baby’s oral cavity dental bed. Babies should brush their teeth from the age of 3, but at this time the child is still young and can not master the skills of brushing well, need the help of parents to develop the habit of brushing teeth with some difficulty. From the age of five or six, children gradually understand the importance of dental protection, at this time should develop the habit of brushing teeth. 2. Teach your baby the correct way to brush teeth: the correct way to brush teeth is the vertical brushing method. The benefits of vertical brushing are: less damage to the teeth, massage effect on the gums, and can promote blood circulation of the gums. 3.Go to dental specialist once every six months to check teeth and implement sulcus closure, find out caries and fill it up in time after each meal and brush teeth before going to bed to keep teeth clean. 4.Use more natural food, milk, eggs, colored vegetables, cereals and vegetables and fruits with more coarse fiber, seafood animals and plants every day. Fresh fruits and vegetables, etc. Often eat more coarse and fiber-rich food can strengthen chewing activities, increase saliva secretion, reduce the residual food in the sulcus of teeth, so that bacteria lose the environment for reproduction, so that the tooth surface is kept clean. 5, control young children to eat too much candy and sweets. Children love to eat milk candies, chocolates, cookies, cakes and so on. These foods are easy to adhere to the tooth surface, ferment and produce acid, which is very easy to cause tooth decay. We should teach children to brush their teeth in the morning and evening, rinse their mouth after meals, and correct the bad habit of eating snacks before bedtime. 6. Stop bad habits, don’t bite hard things (pacifier) for a long time, eat fingers, bite lips and lick tongue.