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.
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