Mother plays an important role in the family, as a wife and mother of his children. It matters more that the greatest importance, namely the role of mother. The first figure known child was born so she is his mother. Therefore, behaviors and habits can be emulated by the mother of the child. Maternal knowledge about dental health will determine his future status of dental health. But 'know' just is not enough, to be followed by 'caring' and 'acting'.
Dental health and child need to be considered as early as possible. Tooth formation in children has been started since he was still in the womb. Factors determine the nutrition of pregnant women fetal growth and development, not to mention the teeth and mouth.
Holt RD, et al conducted a study on the effects of dental health education given by mothers to their children aged five years in London. The results reveal that 69% of children whose mothers provided oral health education at home shows free of caries, gingivitis and numbers (gingivitis) which is lower than the children who are not educated about dental health by his mother.
Dental caries can occur very early, so the teeth have grown and exposed to the oral environment so he has the potential to experience caries. Mother can help clean teeth toddler son who is still using gauze or a clean cotton disapukan to the tooth surface. To determine whether there are plaques on the tooth surface, can be applied to disclosing solution which will give the red color on the surface covered with plaque. So whether your teeth could get caught it is completely clean or not.
Fig: Dental given plaque disclosing solution to check.
Sometimes children who are aged under five years is very difficult to told to brush her teeth. Well, herein lies the role of mother. Command may not work just to make kids want to brush my teeth. But if the mother took the child brushing teeth together, as a bath for example, then the child can pay attention and imitate the habit of the mother.
Entering the school age children experience caries risk higher. Number of snacks at school, by type of food and sweet drinks, threatening the health of your child's teeth. Mothers need to watch the pattern of children in school snacks. If possible, children are not accustomed to eating snacks in schools altogether. Food from home so much better, because it can not be denied that most of the snacks the kids at school are vulnerable to problems of hygiene and nutritional content is also questionable. Even if children insist for snacks at school, better directed not to choose a sweet and sticky foods. With the consistency of sticky sweet foods is much more dangerous, because it is more difficult to remove from the tooth surface.
Baby Bottle cariesMany women complained, the front upper jaw teeth brownish son, the crown of his teeth broken, sometimes even just a little crown left. However, most mothers do not realize what the cause. What actually happens is that dental caries experience, and this event is often referred to as a bottle caries, early childhood caries, or baby bottle caries. Pattern of dental caries is closely related to the provision of milk or other sweet liquids using a prolonged bottle. Even more so when children are accustomed or conditioned to drink a bottle of milk before bedtime, and not infrequently there are bottles of milk in the child's mouth when he fell asleep.
Caries in deciduous teeth caused by administration of milk or other sweet drinks milk by the prolonged use of bottle has a distinctive characteristic. Involved tooth is usually the upper front teeth, usually the four front teeth and lower jaw free of caries.
Fig. Baby bottle caries
Factors parents' behavior as to support the occurrence of this problem, especially because of lack of knowledge of parents about proper dental health. Fairly high percentage of these events, from a study reported 3-6% of children under the age of four years of bottle caries.
From several studies revealed that the contents of the bottle is more significant in increasing the risk of caries in the bottle, rather than the duration or length of use of these bottles. For example syrup, infant formula that added sugar, or honey water to be drunk with milk bottles, has high potential to cause bottle caries, especially when drunk at bedtime. Saliva flow is decreased during sleep, whereas saliva has a self-cleansing effect of flushing leftover food or beverages out of the oral cavity during swallowing movements. When liquid or sweet drinks to be drunk until the child is asleep, then the liquid is still flooded the surface of the tooth during the night. Lactose contained in milk can stimulate the growth of Streptococcus mutans, the bacteria that is very important as a cause of caries.
TIPS FOR THE MOTHER
1. Help and teach children while brushing teeth. When the mother of the child jointly carry out the cleaning gear, children will be more motivated and imitate the example of her mother. Besides the mother also may consider whether the child how to brush teeth correctly. Do not leave children alone or only accompanied by a nanny.
Toothpaste with various flavors and colors are attractive to children, and the formula has been designed in such a way that is safe if swallowed. However, toothpaste containing fluoride is good for the teeth should be given after a child aged four years where he has been able to gargle.
2. Watch the type of street children. Candy and chocolate or other sweet foods can still be given, but it should be emphasized on the importance of brushing and cleaning your teeth before bed.
3. Take time to look at and examine your child's teeth. When this is often done, the child will not feel too strange time to be brought to the dentist. If there are abnormalities in the child's oral cavity can be found as early as possible.
CAUTION:
Check with your child to the dentist regularly. Many of the mothers who did not deem it necessary to patch the holes in their children's milk teeth. Because after all will be replaced by permanent teeth. But that left holes in teeth can cause several problems.
Milk tooth cavities (as in adults) can cause discomfort or pain. As a result, children may be fussy and difficult to eat.
Can cause interference with mastication functions, because dental cavities are not comfortable to use chewing. As a result, do not chew food properly, and may affect the nutrition for children.
Milk teeth can cause dental cavities are rocking and the date of premature or had revoked prematurely. Ideally in this condition made space maintainer. Milk teeth functioned as a guide for the growth of their permanent teeth. When premature tooth loss, tooth growth continues to be irregular.
The composition of irregular teeth can lead to malfunctioning of talk (especially irregular front teeth), facial profile are not in harmony, interference with mastication, and can lower the child's confidence.
Milk teeth must remain filled, so that the teeth are already holes in it can survive as long as possible in the mouth and on or off in accordance with its normal time.
