Children are born without resistance to sweets,
eat sweets and other snacks without binding force,
cannot take the initiative to clean the mouth after eating,
may have many teeth broken before the tooth replacement period.
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But for a long time, many parents have believed that
children's will have to be replaced sooner or later,
Therefore, they don't care much about deciduous teeth.
In fact, this is a big misunderstanding.
Although our deciduous teeth will eventually be replaced by permanent teeth,
does not mean that it is not important.
On the contrary, the health of permanent teeth is actually closely related to the baby teeth.
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Survey shows that the prevalence of deciduous teeth caries in 5-year-old children in my country is 66%, with an average of 3.5 caries per child. The prevalence of permanent teeth caries in 12-year-old children is 28.9%, of which 97% of 5-year-old children have not been treated, and the untreated rate of 12-year-old children is 89%.
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In other words, among the 180 million teenagers, 93.12 million suffer from tooth decay! Many habits and improper care in daily life can cause children's baby teeth to become deciduous. In order to better prevent tooth decay, we must first understand what are the factors that cause tooth decay.
NO.1 Factors of the formation of deciduous teeth
Tooth caries are commonly known as insect teeth, tooth decay , and is a bacterial disease . Therefore, it can cause pulpitis and pericytes , and even cause alveolar bone and jaw bone inflammation . Tooth caries are divided into shallow caries, medium caries, and deep caries . If the child is not treated in time during the shallow caries stage, the lesions will continue to develop and form caries, and eventually the crown is completely destroyed and disappeared. Untreated caries do not heal on their own, and the ultimate result of their development is tooth loss.
1, The shape of the deciduous teeth : Children's enamel has a poor degree of mineralization than the enamel of permanent teeth, and the protection effect provided is relatively poor, making it more likely to cause caries. In addition, the shape of the deciduous teeth is more likely to cause dental caries. For example, the deciduous teeth are bulging close to 1/3 of the neck of the tooth, and the neck of the tooth is narrow, so bacteria and food residues have a great chance of staying in this natural physiological gap.
2, Food type: Most of the daily foods of children are soft and sticky, and children always like to eat sweet foods. These foods are easy to ferment and produce acid, which is very harmful to tooth enamel.
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3, Low oral self-cleaning quality : Children sleep relatively long, saliva secretion during sleep is reduced, self-cleaning effect is poor, and bacteria are prone to reproduction.
4, Parents do not pay enough attention to : Parents fail to help or guide children to brush their teeth in time, and food residues and plaques accumulate on the tooth surface, which is prone to tooth decay.
NO.2 The harm of dental caries of baby teeth
Tooth caries pain, adults can't bear the pain, let alone the age of children, which will make the child's mood worse, cry, unable to eat or sleep well. It affects the normal development of permanent tooth germ . Under the deciduous teeth are permanent tooth germ. Severe caries will affect them and damage the health of permanent tooth.
1. Deciduous teeth will not only cause pain to affect the normal life of children, but also affect the development of permanent teeth germ.
2. Deciduous tooth decay should be treated in time. Even during the dental change period, the dentist should check it out.
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NO.3 Is carious deciduous teeth supplemented or extracted?
If the baby teeth are broken, is it a tooth filling or tooth extraction? It should be comprehensively measured based on the specific situation. Generally speaking, for children who have not reached the dental stage, their broken baby teeth should be treated as early as possible in principle, and should not be removed easily. The baby teeth are the first pair of human teeth. They usually start to erupt around 6 months, and all 20 baby teeth are erupted by about 2 and a half years old.
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Although the deciduous teeth will eventually be replaced, deciduous teeth have two important missions: one is to chew food, and the other is to induce permanent teeth to erupt normally. Premature loss of the baby teeth will affect the normal chewing function of in children, and at the same time, the induction function of escaping permanent teeth will be lost, which is not conducive to the maintenance of the tooth gap and may cause occlusal disorders and irregular teeth. Therefore, for deciduous teeth that have not reached the dental stage, should be treated as much as possible.
NO.4 How to prevent caries of baby teeth
Nowadays, most parents pay great attention to protecting their children's teeth, but what should we do if the child's teeth still suffer from caries?
1, Clean it well : Avoid letting babies sleep with pacifiers containing sweet substances such as milk, juice, etc., and you can feed appropriate amount of boiled water after the baby has finished drinking it, which can serve as a simple rinse. Focus on cultivating children's habit of brushing their teeth every day and mastering the correct way to brush their teeth.
2, Balanced diet : Rich daily recipes and avoid eating too much sweets. This will not only ensure that children are balanced in nutrition and develop good habits that are not picky about food, but also help children's oral health.
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3, Timely fluoride + fuse sealing : Fluoride and fuse sealing are important methods to prevent tooth decay. Taking your child with fluoride and fuse sealing as soon as possible is like putting a layer of "protective clothes" on your teeth, which can prevent the child's baby teeth from food erosion and effectively prevent dental caries.
Parents choose the time to apply fluoride according to their children's cooperation. As for the frequency of fluoride application, the American Dental Association (ADA) recommends that children over 3 years old who are at a moderate or high risk of caries should apply fluoride every 3 to 6 months; children under 3 years old who are at a high risk of caries should also apply fluoride regularly, and treatment should be done as soon as possible when they are found!
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gutters are small gullies on the occlusion surface of molar (commonly known as posterior grooves). The depressions are easily filled with food residues and are not easily brushed clean. It is a high incidence of tooth decay. The closure and fence sealing means filling the depression with safe materials, which is equivalent to putting a safety helmet on the child's baby teeth to isolate bacterial invasion.
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4, Regular oral examination : Regular tooth examination can help us detect dental health risks as early as possible, so as to "prevent problems before they happen." Therefore, remember to take your child to find a professional dentist to have a regular oral examination!
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Of course, the editor would like to remind all parents and friends here: Don’t wait for the child to experience severe pain and have big holes in the teeth to see a doctor. This will make the doctor’s subsequent processing very troublesome, and the money will be spent a lot, and the child will still be affected. Therefore, it is best to kill the caries in the cradle when they appear in their original form. At the same time, parents also need to let their children develop the good habit of brushing their teeth seriously in the morning and evening!
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