Three- and four-year-old babies also have teeth! Is it true that the sooner the better?

In recent years, the consumer industry developed around "appearance" has developed rapidly, and consumers' pursuit of beauty has also extended from beauty and skin care to dental beauty, including orthodontics, whitening, all-porcelain patches and other projects favored by consumers. Among them, the range of people who do orthodontics is also getting bigger and bigger.

In the boom of adult and adolescent dental implants, some merchants have set their sights on the oral market for young children, and many children as young as three or four years old have worn braces under the recommendation of some private clinic doctors. What are the misunderstandings of "whole tooth fever" from adults to young age?

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Children usher in "whole tooth fever"

Children wear braces when they are three or four years old

During the holidays, parents in the dental clinic will occasionally bring their children to the clinic. Ms. Wang (not her real name), who lives in Shenzhen, is one of them, and every few months, she takes her two children to check her teeth, including five-year-old who has been persuaded by the clinic doctor to wear braces.

Ms. Wang told reporters: "I think whether it is from the aspect of health or aesthetics, teeth are very important, it will affect a person's face. The older of the two children had teeth, he had a 'floor bag', and he wore braces for correction. ”

The reporter learned,

Holidays are the peak period for children's teeth correction, especially in the winter and summer vacations, some dental expert numbers are more difficult to find, and children's teeth are also showing the characteristics of getting younger and younger, and even some children have worn braces at the age of three or four.

Some parents said: "My child began to do corrections in August last year, because when he was a child, two teeth in the upper row were protruding, and they were corrected for aesthetics. ”

The person in charge of a private dental clinic told reporters that in the past two years, the number of children who came to get their teeth was significantly increased: "Now the number of patients is constantly growing, and this year it has increased by at least 30%. ”

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Dental Specialist:

Orthodontics in children are not as early as possible

Reporters searched on multiple social platforms and found that advertisements about children's teeth are not uncommon. In addition, many mother and baby bloggers often publish some content of children's oral clinics, and the copywriting is similar, such as the popularization of "oral breathing", the standard of children's golden correction period, and the affirmation of clinic services.

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In this regard, Xu Baohua, director of the Stomatology Center of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said in an interview with the media,

Some parents and children do not have to be overly anxious, and children's dental correction is not as early as possible: "A type of dental and jaw deformity is called dental, dental problems are mainly tooth bite problems, bones are normal, called dental jaw deformities.

This type of tooth and jaw deformity is not rushed to do, generally wait until the permanent teeth grow out and then do it without problems. If it needs to be done, it is also recommended to do it after the age of 8, and there is no need to do systemic complex treatment. As for the dental period, the teeth of eight or nine years old are uneven, gaps, etc., in principle, do not need to do correction, and medically speaking, it becomes a temporary wrong jaw, which can wait until after the age of 12. ”

Fang Bing, director of the Department of Orthodontics of the Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, believes that

The alignment of deciduous teeth and the alignment of permanent teeth are not much related, if it is only the case of uneven teeth alignment, it is more appropriate to start considering correction around the age of 12. "Humans generally have 32 teeth, but modern humans can only grow about 28 teeth, and our mouths and gum beds are slowly getting smaller. After the 28th tooth finally grows, the 7th tooth in each quadrant of the tooth grows out at about the age of 12. Generally speaking, if there is no bone problem, no convex or concave type problem, it is better to wait until the 7th tooth of each quadrant grows out to do correction, because after 28 teeth grow out, you can consider it all. ”

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If the child has a face shape problem such as "covering the sky"

Intervention is required before puberty

Fang Bing stressed that although under normal circumstances, children should not correct their teeth prematurely, but the malocclusion of children's teeth will cause certain harm to children's physical and mental health, and parents should not be careless. "From the perspective of oral hygiene, the teeth with wrong jaw deformity will not be easy to brush clean, food residues, plaque, etc. are not easy to control, and it will also cause disorders in the bacterial environment of the mouth." There is also a very important concept of health is mental health, the child's psychological construction should be around the age of 9, that is, the third grade, if his teeth are very messy, different from others, may affirm that the psychological construction of self-worth will be hindered. ”

Fang Bing suggested,

If the child has a face shape problem such as "covering the sky", it is necessary to intervene before puberty, and should go to a regular hospital as soon as possible to let the doctor make a reasonable judgment. "Girls can go to the hospital at the time of 8 and 10 years old to check whether there are face shape problems or bad habits. Women have the opportunity to be treated through growth modification before menstruation, and boys are before changing their voice, so it is also recommended to see it around the age of 10 and a half. Problems with teeth can be put to 12 years of age. ”

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Xu Baohua, director of the Stomatology Center of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, pointed out that the root cause of the tooth and jaw deformity caused by the abnormal size or position of the upper and lower jaws is caused by bone problems, and the time of correction is not as early as possible, so the best time should be chosen. "For example, patients with mandibular protrusions should generally be controlled early because they are not easy to treat."

The mandibular protrusion is the most difficult type to treat, especially in overdeveloped patients, it is generally recommended to do it earlier, and it is necessary to start control at the age of eight or nine. Patients with resymbranded jaws are not recommended to do it so early, and they should choose to do it before and after the rapid development of puberty, and do it when they grow the fastest in height, and the effect is the best. Because the growth of the mandible and the growth of the whole body are consistent, it depends on the age of the bone, and doing it when it grows the fastest can achieve the effect of doubling the results with half the effort. ”

For children with bad habits such as spitting out their tongues and biting their fingers, Xu Baohua believes that they should be treated at any time:

"If the child has poor functional problems such as tongue spitting, finger biting, lip biting, partial chewing, oral breathing habits, etc., it is recommended to find and treat at any time."

Source: Voice of China(ID:zgzs001)

Producer: Mou Yanqiu Chen Jingchun

Editor: Gu Peng

Proofreader: Dong Jingxue