When to start to clean the teeth to the child?
Each of parents, certainly, wants to see healthy and beautiful teeth of his child. But, when and why it is necessary to start to look after baby teeth and how correctly to choose dentifrice? Here are some facts about the first baby tooth.
Teething
Baby teeth start to appear in the age of 6 - 8 months. First of all cut through 2 lower, and then 2 upper cutting teeth. Formation of all 20 teeth comes to the end, approximately when child is two and a half.
There are exceptions of the rules, certainly. For example, the case when in 1961 in Germany there was born a child with six teeth is known! Happens and on the contrary: the first teeth can be appeared only on 12-th month of a baby’s life and all process teething, accordingly, is late too. Parents shouldn’t worry if deviations are insignificant, but if the kid is one year old already, and his teeth have not appeared yet, or were not cut through completely by three years, it is necessary to address to the doctor who will checkup and will make x-ray pictures to define, whether there are rudiments of a teeth in a jaw, generally.
Why is so important care of baby teeth?
To care of a time teeth is very important, in fact they initially define a correct arrangement of a constant teeth. Not cured “milk” tooth in time, can damage, and sometimes even ruin completely rudiments of constant teeth which are located at its roots. Besides healthy milk teeth promote correct development jaws and to formation of a normal bite.
Do not forget and about appearance of the child - his smile should be beautiful, that is important for his mentality and social behaviour. It is absolutely exact, that early preventive maintenance of children caries is a mortgage of health of their teeth for all life.
When 20 milk teeth will be cut through all (in the age three years, nearly), begin regular - two times a year - visiting the stomatologist. These meetings will help not only to prevent in time development of caries, but to observe a condition of gums also.
The basis of everyone health is preventive maintenance. Illness is easier for preventing, than to treat. And the first major step on a way of preventive maintenance of stomatologic diseases is a daily cleaning of teeth by means of a tooth-paste and a tooth-brush.
Akulovich Andrey VictorovichDentist
The therapeutics teratology
of S. Petersburg Medicine University
Member of National Teratology Academy
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