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Who would not love to see her sweet smile with white teeth, clean and healthy? And where the parents stand to see her son crying in agony because her teeth holes? Dental care in infancy and child determine their oral and dental health in the next age level. Some of the teeth and mouth disease could they experienced when treatment is not done properly. Among caries (holes on the surface of the tooth), ginggivitis (inflammation of the gums), and canker sores. Preventing tooth decay is more important than forced to go to the dentist after a tooth is damaged or perforated. Preventive action is the best thing, besides do not feel pain, can become not need to spend money in large quantities to treat toothache.
To maintain healthy teeth in infants and children, there are some things that can be done by parents, namely:
Prepare a calcium-rich foods (fish & milk), fluoride (tea, green vegetables), phosphorus, and vitamin A (carrots), vitamin C (fruits), vitamin D (milk), and vitamin E (sprouts). Minerals and vitamins are necessary for the growth of their teeth.
Reduce consumption of sweet foods and easily attached to the teeth, such as candy or chocolate. Sugar in sweet foods can damage your child's teeth, but do not necessarily prohibited at all to eat sweet foods, because it can cause psychological effects. To maintain the cleanliness of teeth, familiarize them rinsed her mouth after eating these sweets.
Teach children brushing teeth regularly and correctly, at least two times a day, the morning after breakfast and at night before bed. Better yet if they were done after each meal. For infants aged 6-11 months, after feeding or eating out his teeth cleaned with sterile cotton or gauze soaked in water, slowly diusapkan to each tooth surface. In children aged 1-2 years was introduced with a toothbrush, for the introduction stage is better not to use toothpaste, because not all children can feel comfortable with the taste of toothpaste, toothpaste-can be considered strange by the children. So, just use a toothbrush soaked in warm boiled water only. Then the children were trained holding a toothbrush and slowly learning menggosokannya to every surface of her teeth. After walking a few weeks and the kids are used to brush my teeth, should be given little by little the child's special toothpaste.
Strive to introduce children to visit the dentist at an early stage since the age of one year. This can be useful in the habit and overcome their fear of foreigners or at the dentist. In addition, it is also important that your doctor know early on about any dental problems that can be experienced by the child. Further Engage children for health check his teeth regularly six months. Especially for children aged 6-11 years essential for healthy teeth and mouth checked regularly, because their teeth are experiencing change from milk teeth to permanent teeth.
If the child complains toothache, give salt water to rinse out his mouth, then immediately take it to the dentist, because if left too long, will cause dental disease that continues, the more severe.
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In brushing your teeth, there are three factors to be considered, namely:
Toothbrush Selection: For children choose either a small toothbrush or brush head stem, making it easy to handle and does not damage the gums. Brush hairs do not be too hard / too soft too seldom. Choose a hair brush gently but strong enough to remove the dirt in my teeth. Tip of the brush head narrows to easily reach all parts of the mouth is relatively small tip toothbrush and hair brush tip as close as possible, if not the end of a toothbrush was stuck to the back but not subject to fur brush your teeth, so there are parts that are not tersikat teeth. This is usually on wisdom teeth.
Mode / motion toothbrush: a child on your lap in front of a mirror, with our backs to the position. With so children will see their own original teeth after brushing so much yellow and white. Brush teeth on the outer surface and the surface of the tooth, do the vertical movement and direction of the gums to the tooth surface (see Fig. 1 and pictures. 3). For the upper jaw motion brush from top to bottom, to the lower jaw from the ground up. While to the chewing surfaces, both top and bottom teeth, tooth brushing technique is penyikatannya with horizontal movement of the teeth back toward the front teeth (pulling the brush to the outside mouth, see figure. 2 above). If this technique is done properly, the results can be maximal while gum health was maintained. Every surface of the teeth brushed with careful, do not worry too hard, but steady. Gums should tersikat so soft food remnants in the neck missing teeth and besides it also serves to perform massage (massage) on the gums, so that the gums healthy, supple and not easily bleed. Do not forget, the surface of the tongue also need to be brushed slowly, because the uneven surface of the tongue so easily tucked away leftover food (gambar.2 see below).
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Toothbrush Frequency: At least two times a day, the morning after breakfast and at night before bed. Ideally, brush your teeth after every meal, but the most important night before bed. We recommend that you brush your teeth with toothpaste that contains fluoride which can strengthen an email. To provide children with fruit-flavored toothpaste, so that the children liked to brush his teeth.
On the role of children aged under five require parents to assist the learning process of brushing your teeth regularly and properly, because with the guidance and the planting of teeth brushing habits, would be beneficial to maintain healthy white teeth like pearls. It takes the patience of parents in this learning process, sometimes at first child's mouth shut every time the teeth will be cleaned. This rejection of the fair because the child thinks he's going to hurt. Innovative steps needed when the child brush his teeth. Encourage your child to see a brother, father, or mother brush his teeth. With so children will see first hand an example / model of how to brush his teeth. In addition toothbrush can also be done while playing, no need to always be in the bathroom. For example with a mirror, or while dancing and singing with joy. Make brushing teeth a fun event so that they enjoy it and not lazy to do it. Make a toothbrush event as one that needs to be done at least twice a day. As I build this habit, convey to the child's understanding about the benefits of tooth brushing, teeth become the most concrete is clean, white and healthy.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Importance of Dental and Oral Health Children
Do not take for granted oral and dental health of children. Many people never imagined that the child's mouth and dental problems can affect a child's development. Therefore, the importance of parental attention to the dental health of children, particularly children who are toddlers. Therefore, the condition of milk teeth will determine the permanent dentition of the child.
Moreover, when children have teeth that are not healthy, he will be hard to digest foods so that the child's growth process will be disrupted. As a result, the child will be susceptible to disease. Every parent should instill in him a principle that children should be free from dental pain and give them a good life early so they can compete in the future.
Dentition in children is marked by the appearance of the gums and teeth on the surface followed by a change of position in the bone supporting the teeth from tooth to its functional position in the oral cavity. Early clinical appearance of the teeth is a sign of the growth of a child. The first stage dentition is very clear during the sixth week of embryonic life.
Start teething is an important process of growth of a child. Parents need to know how to care for their children teeth. Parents should also teach their children how to care for your teeth properly, ie by giving examples of the correct way of brushing. Function talk
One function of milk teeth is considered important is the development of speaking function. The ability to use tooth-teeth to get the pronunciation entirely with the aid of a milk tooth. Milk teeth also plays a role in the function with the cosmetic appearance of the development of children. In an indirect way of speaking children can be affected if there is consciousness in itself will damage the teeth, and this will embarrass him when he opened his mouth as he spoke.
Early dental care is very important to prevent tooth decay process, such as cavities, porous, and swelling of the gums. Children also should be encouraged or introduced early to the dentist. This is very useful in the familiar routine dental examination and overcoming fear the child to the dentist.
Parents can try a way to introduce dentists to the children, to participate by inviting the children when mom or dad check your teeth. It also introduces children to the dentist room atmosphere, the sounds of machinery, and equipment used by doctors. Children can also see how the mother or father to remain calm during dental treatment.
No less important is choosing a pediatric dentist who understand and have an education how to make the children comfortable as a dentist. For example, a doctor who provides a waiting room filled with books and toys, as well as filling the walls with pictures of an attractive and well liked children.
In addition, parents must pay attention to eating patterns of children. Do not be too often give children a sweet and sticky foods. Therefore, these foods easily left behind and attached to the teeth, and when used too often and long will result in not good. Sweet and sticky foods will react in the mouth and form acids that damage tooth enamel. This will result in the emergence of disturbances, such as tooth decay or what is known as caries. "Nursing-bottle caries"
Nursing-bottle caries (NBC) or also called baby bottle tooth decay-bottle syndrome baby who becomes number one cause extensive damage to the teeth of children under the age of three years-is a condition in which children's milk teeth have been damaged, often become rotten, to the surface of the gums. NBC is a lot happening in children due to frequent consumption of sugar-containing beverages, like milk, juices, and other soft drinks, which is given to children at bedtime.
Sugar contained in these drinks by bacteria contained in dental plaque that eventually turned into acid causes tooth decay and damage.
There are several ways to avoid the case of NBC:
1. Avoid or reduce sweet foods. Fructose (table sugar), dextrose, and corn syrup containing sugar acids that can cause spoilage in greater numbers than the non-sugar foods other.
2. Do not give food or drink to children before bed without brushing their teeth or cleaning your teeth afterwards. When children are accustomed to drinking milk in the bottle before bed to sleep, clean the teeth with cotton or cloth that has been dampened.
3. When children have or used to hold the bottle while going to sleep, fill bottles with water. Indicators of oral health can be seen from oral hygiene and the presence or absence of gingivitis (gum inflammation). Gingivitis is an inflammation involving the gingival tissue (gums) around the teeth. Gingivitis in children caused by the presence of plaque (soft mass attached to the tooth surface and contain colonies of bacteria) and calculus (hardened plaque), which is associated with oral hygiene is not good. This gingivitis disease if left will become destructive forms of periodontal tissue (tissue surrounding the teeth).
The health care of children under five years old are still dependent on parents. Parents, especially mothers, have a very dominant role in the effort pecegahan disease gingivitis or other oral diseases. The role of mothers in an effort to improve child dental health can be seen from the attitude and concern for her child dental care.
Efforts to prevent tooth decay must not be done by reducing the provision of milk to children. Considering the cause of dental caries and gingivitis is plaque, an effort that can be done is to clean the plaque from the tooth surface.
Such measures may be brushing my teeth, gargle, mouthwash, and cleaning the teeth with cotton or cloth soaked in infants. When children are a bit older, parents should help children to start a routine of brushing your teeth. How to teach and give examples of how to hold a toothbrush and brush your teeth properly. Oral hygiene can only be achieved by brushing your teeth properly, regularly, and regularly every day, especially before bed, so that the surface of the teeth free of plaque.
Moreover, when children have teeth that are not healthy, he will be hard to digest foods so that the child's growth process will be disrupted. As a result, the child will be susceptible to disease. Every parent should instill in him a principle that children should be free from dental pain and give them a good life early so they can compete in the future.
Dentition in children is marked by the appearance of the gums and teeth on the surface followed by a change of position in the bone supporting the teeth from tooth to its functional position in the oral cavity. Early clinical appearance of the teeth is a sign of the growth of a child. The first stage dentition is very clear during the sixth week of embryonic life.
Start teething is an important process of growth of a child. Parents need to know how to care for their children teeth. Parents should also teach their children how to care for your teeth properly, ie by giving examples of the correct way of brushing. Function talk
One function of milk teeth is considered important is the development of speaking function. The ability to use tooth-teeth to get the pronunciation entirely with the aid of a milk tooth. Milk teeth also plays a role in the function with the cosmetic appearance of the development of children. In an indirect way of speaking children can be affected if there is consciousness in itself will damage the teeth, and this will embarrass him when he opened his mouth as he spoke.
Early dental care is very important to prevent tooth decay process, such as cavities, porous, and swelling of the gums. Children also should be encouraged or introduced early to the dentist. This is very useful in the familiar routine dental examination and overcoming fear the child to the dentist.
Parents can try a way to introduce dentists to the children, to participate by inviting the children when mom or dad check your teeth. It also introduces children to the dentist room atmosphere, the sounds of machinery, and equipment used by doctors. Children can also see how the mother or father to remain calm during dental treatment.
No less important is choosing a pediatric dentist who understand and have an education how to make the children comfortable as a dentist. For example, a doctor who provides a waiting room filled with books and toys, as well as filling the walls with pictures of an attractive and well liked children.
In addition, parents must pay attention to eating patterns of children. Do not be too often give children a sweet and sticky foods. Therefore, these foods easily left behind and attached to the teeth, and when used too often and long will result in not good. Sweet and sticky foods will react in the mouth and form acids that damage tooth enamel. This will result in the emergence of disturbances, such as tooth decay or what is known as caries. "Nursing-bottle caries"
Nursing-bottle caries (NBC) or also called baby bottle tooth decay-bottle syndrome baby who becomes number one cause extensive damage to the teeth of children under the age of three years-is a condition in which children's milk teeth have been damaged, often become rotten, to the surface of the gums. NBC is a lot happening in children due to frequent consumption of sugar-containing beverages, like milk, juices, and other soft drinks, which is given to children at bedtime.
Sugar contained in these drinks by bacteria contained in dental plaque that eventually turned into acid causes tooth decay and damage.
There are several ways to avoid the case of NBC:
1. Avoid or reduce sweet foods. Fructose (table sugar), dextrose, and corn syrup containing sugar acids that can cause spoilage in greater numbers than the non-sugar foods other.
2. Do not give food or drink to children before bed without brushing their teeth or cleaning your teeth afterwards. When children are accustomed to drinking milk in the bottle before bed to sleep, clean the teeth with cotton or cloth that has been dampened.
3. When children have or used to hold the bottle while going to sleep, fill bottles with water. Indicators of oral health can be seen from oral hygiene and the presence or absence of gingivitis (gum inflammation). Gingivitis is an inflammation involving the gingival tissue (gums) around the teeth. Gingivitis in children caused by the presence of plaque (soft mass attached to the tooth surface and contain colonies of bacteria) and calculus (hardened plaque), which is associated with oral hygiene is not good. This gingivitis disease if left will become destructive forms of periodontal tissue (tissue surrounding the teeth).
The health care of children under five years old are still dependent on parents. Parents, especially mothers, have a very dominant role in the effort pecegahan disease gingivitis or other oral diseases. The role of mothers in an effort to improve child dental health can be seen from the attitude and concern for her child dental care.
Efforts to prevent tooth decay must not be done by reducing the provision of milk to children. Considering the cause of dental caries and gingivitis is plaque, an effort that can be done is to clean the plaque from the tooth surface.
Such measures may be brushing my teeth, gargle, mouthwash, and cleaning the teeth with cotton or cloth soaked in infants. When children are a bit older, parents should help children to start a routine of brushing your teeth. How to teach and give examples of how to hold a toothbrush and brush your teeth properly. Oral hygiene can only be achieved by brushing your teeth properly, regularly, and regularly every day, especially before bed, so that the surface of the teeth free of plaque.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Caring for Children Dental Health Tips
Care and maintenance of dental health should begin early, and childhood is the perfect time for it. Parents play an important role here because the parents are directly interacting with children every day and take full responsibility for the health of children, particularly dental health. Here are tips and things that deserve the attention of parents:
Provide adequate calcium intake for your child's teeth strong. The recommended amount of calcium intake for children aged 4-8 years is as much as 800mg. Milk is a good source of calcium for children.
Avoid giving drinks of sugar in a bottle (milk bottle) to your baby or child. Why? as this can cause damage (caries / hole) tooth, especially dental caries at the front of your child. Type of tooth decay is very rapid development.
Brush your child's teeth, if they have not been able to brush their own teeth. Then teaching them brushing their teeth, until they can do it yourself. Keep an eye, tooth brushing their way, whether is right or not.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tips And Tricks Keeping Child Dental Health
Never underestimate the use of toothpaste on the child. The reason, researchers in the UK revealed the use of regular toothpaste does not prevent damage to teeth and gums toddler. The researchers instead suggested that a small provided the basic ingredients of toothpaste with floride.
Research was initiated by the Cochrane Oral Health Group and the University of Manchester was also revealed in the use of fluoride toothpaste can reduce damage to teeth and gums by 24%.
In addition, the use of fluoride in toothpaste in children before the age of 12 years hence allows flurosis teeth. This conclusion is based on the findings of 79 trials involving 73 000 children worldwide.
Dr. Anne-Marie Glenny, one of the researchers explain very important for parents to know balance related to the fact each company has different fluoride content in each product.
"From a public health standpoint, the risk of tooth decay and will surely give effects like pain and tooth extraction substantial than fluorosis," he said as quoted from Dailymail.co.uk, last week.
Anne-Marie also explained that children tend to use excessive toothpaste in the long term result in dots of color instead of white shiny teeth.
"In this case, how to brush teeth correctly and properly accompanied by a parent with a little toothpaste berflouride use far more useful," he concluded.
Queensland gum is usually consumed by people if you're feeling nervous or during sports. But chewing gum on a regular basis can also be useful to prevent tooth decay.
"Chewing gum is good for preventing tooth decay is that does not contain sugar. Chewing sugar free gum will have a positive impact on dental health," said Professor Laurence Walsh, chairman of the Dental School at the University of Queensland.
Professor Walsh said the other benefits that can be obtained by chewing gum is to increase the production of saliva, it is useful to help protect the teeth, keeping your teeth to keep them clean and can strengthen tooth enamel.
"Chewing gum could also train the facial muscles and teeth and also create cells saliva glands to work better and more efficient. As well as affecting the types of bacteria that grows in the mouth of someone," said Professor Walsh.
People who have a high risk of experiencing tooth decay are people who do not correct diet, often consume soft drinks or sports drinks, unhealthy lifestyle and taking certain medications can affect saliva production.
Chewing gum that could provide positive benefits for the teeth is the sugar-free candies and milk protein that can release minerals to help improve your teeth and prevent decay.
"Decay is the beginning of the emergence of a large cavity which can cause damage over time. This is important because keusakan teeth is very difficult to cure and can cause other infections," said Professor Walsh.
Nothing wrong to chew sugar free gum as part of healthy living habits. But do not abandon healthy habits such as brushing teeth at least two times a day and teeth checked every six months
Sunday, August 1, 2010
What is a Gummi Crib Rail
What is a Gummi Crib Rail
Baby furniture is expensive and teeth marks don't add to their visual appeal ;-) Apart of this, the chewed wood or other material might be also unhealthy for your child or hurting its gums. For protecting your child and its crib rails you might consider applying a form of crib rail protection or cover, a gummi crib rail. I have added some videos on the right that show how a gummi crib rail works.
Why do babies chew?
Babies chew on everything that they can lay hands teeth on to alleviate the problems that come with teething. Everything hard and in reach will do and the crib rail is therefor a favorite chewing object.
By biting and chewing its crib rail your baby tries to counteract the feeling of discomfort and pain when the first teeth start to push through is tender and sensible gums. Chewing on crib rails and other objects provokes a counter pressure on those gums that the baby experiences as helpful.
Why to use a Gummi Crib Rail
When do babies start to teeth?
Babies can start to teeth as early as with four months and as late as one year and the teething goes on until they are approximately two years old. Around the age of five your child will loose its first teeth as they are replaced by the second and hopefully final edition.
How does a gummi crib rail work?
Basically by turning the crib rail into a big soft teether that helps relieving those teething pains, giving your child an nearly always at hand tooth teething relief. The chewy gummi crib rail covers it and protects so the crib from teeth marks and your baby from being affected negatively by the chewed material. Make sure the crib rail cover you select is safe, non-toxic, non-viny and medical grade and that it is wide enough to cover the whole rail and all other areas you want to protect.
How to apply the gummi crib rail
I have added a video on the right to show how one particular brand is applied but most crib rail guards will follow the same system. Just read the instruction on the package carefully and stick to them.
Baby furniture is expensive and teeth marks don't add to their visual appeal ;-) Apart of this, the chewed wood or other material might be also unhealthy for your child or hurting its gums. For protecting your child and its crib rails you might consider applying a form of crib rail protection or cover, a gummi crib rail. I have added some videos on the right that show how a gummi crib rail works.
Why do babies chew?
Babies chew on everything that they can lay hands teeth on to alleviate the problems that come with teething. Everything hard and in reach will do and the crib rail is therefor a favorite chewing object.
By biting and chewing its crib rail your baby tries to counteract the feeling of discomfort and pain when the first teeth start to push through is tender and sensible gums. Chewing on crib rails and other objects provokes a counter pressure on those gums that the baby experiences as helpful.
Why to use a Gummi Crib Rail
When do babies start to teeth?
Babies can start to teeth as early as with four months and as late as one year and the teething goes on until they are approximately two years old. Around the age of five your child will loose its first teeth as they are replaced by the second and hopefully final edition.
How does a gummi crib rail work?
Basically by turning the crib rail into a big soft teether that helps relieving those teething pains, giving your child an nearly always at hand tooth teething relief. The chewy gummi crib rail covers it and protects so the crib from teeth marks and your baby from being affected negatively by the chewed material. Make sure the crib rail cover you select is safe, non-toxic, non-viny and medical grade and that it is wide enough to cover the whole rail and all other areas you want to protect.
How to apply the gummi crib rail
I have added a video on the right to show how one particular brand is applied but most crib rail guards will follow the same system. Just read the instruction on the package carefully and stick to them.
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