The prevalence of oral diseases in babies gradually increases with age, and "baby dental care" has become a topic of concern for parents. Today we will talk about the things that baby teeth guard!
Teeth are an important indicator of a person's health. Human teeth are divided into two stages: deciduous teeth and permanent teeth, and the health of deciduous teeth is the basis for the health of permanent teeth. As your baby grows, having healthy deciduous teeth will not only make it enjoyable for your baby to eat, but also promote physical development. Children's oral health care should start from the age of 0, that is, parents should be prepared before the baby's deciduous teeth erupt.
Baby's baby teeth
Baby starts growing deciduous teeth at 6 months. Because of individual differences, some children will erupt deciduous teeth around 4 months, and some children will erupt late, about 1 year old, which is a normal phenomenon, and parents do not have to worry. Babies 2 1/2-3 years old will have fully erupted deciduous teeth, a total of 20.
Healthy deciduous teeth are very important for your baby
Diet: Bad teeth will affect the baby's eating speed, chewing food is not meticulous will affect the absorption of the stomach and intestines and physical development.
Deciduous teeth promote the development of the jaw bone during chewing, and problems can affect the development of the jaw face.
Deciduous teeth are to prepare space for permanent teeth, if the permanent teeth are lost early, the position of the teeth on both sides will be shifted, and the space required for the permanent teeth to erupt become smaller, often causing the permanent teeth to be crowded and ectopic.
Premature loss of deciduous teeth can also affect the child's psychological health and development.
The amount of milk-derived sugar in breast milk is different from sucrose, which is less likely to cause caries, but if breast milk is given uncontrolled, the child's deciduous teeth are soaked in breast milk for a long time, which will also affect the health of the deciduous teeth.
Long-term use of pacifiers can also lead to problems with tooth opening and closing. It is recommended that breastfeeding parents pay as much attention as possible to the feeding time, and then feed some water after each feeding to reduce the use of pacifiers.
Bad oral habits are when you consciously or unconsciously do the same action over and over again over a period of time. The main bad oral habits include finger sucking habits, tongue habits, lip habits, partial chewing habits, biting habits, etc. Poor oral habits in children often cause deformed jaws, ectopic teeth, and misalignment.
1. Finger sucking habit
The pressure caused by finger sucking can lead to narrowing of the dental arch, protrusion of the upper teeth, the eruption of the lower teeth, and poor occlusion of the front teeth. The type of deformity caused by finger sucking is related to the location, duration, intensity, and frequency of placement of the fingers (commonly the thumb and index finger) being sucked.
2. Tongue habits
Often use the tongue to lick teeth, lick the tongue, or due to tonsillar hypertrophy, turbinate hypertrophy and other reasons to make breathing unobstructed, the formation of bad habits of spitting tongue, etc., easy to cause the teeth to completely bite, the front tooth area up and down and there is no contact, the formation of open jaw, affecting chewing, pronunciation, etc.
3. Lip habits
Frequent biting of the lower lip will cause the upper and lower anterior teeth to tilt the lip or tongue, and even bone deformities such as retraction or regurgitation of the lower jaw.
4. Hexagonal chewing habits
This habit is common in one side of the back tooth has severe caries or early loss of teeth, so that the side can not bite normally, can not be normal chewing, can only use the healthy side to chew food, over time formed a partial chewing habit. This habit may cause deformities such as asymmetry of development on the left and right sides of the face, asymmetry of the midline, etc.
5. Bite habits
Some babies often bite pencils, nibble nails, and some bite into various stationery and clothing quilt corners. The bite is often fixed to a certain part of the dental arch, forming a local small opening and closing deformity.
If there are bad oral habits, you should diagnose them as early as possible to understand the reasons for their formation, and parents encourage and guide their children to change bad oral habits through reminders, language education and other methods. If it is difficult to overcome bad habits, special orthosis can be worn to intervene to prevent the aggravation of maxillofacial deformities or other complications.