Pay attention to these 7 tips to aviod child tooth decay.
Source：Pujing Dental ClinicUpdated on：2023-08-26
The care of your baby's teeth is really important, because tooth decay not only affects the appearance, but also causes pain to the child, resulting in decreased appetite, mental irritability, etc. Therefore, preventive measures should be taken in daily life to avoid the appearance of tooth decay.
1. Drink cough syrup without gargle
Cough Syrup is a drug with a large sugar content, which can cause dental caries. This "invisible" sugar is often ignored. Especially some mothers like to give the baby medicine before going to bed, it is easier for the baby's mouth to accumulate these sugars for a long time, causing tooth decay.
So, after taking cough syrup and throat lozenges, be sure to urge your baby to rinse his mouth and brush his teeth!
2. Alternate hot food and cold food
Teeth are particularly sensitive to temperature. Baby's fragile teeth can easily cause soreness under the stimulation of cold and heat. This kind of tooth hypersensitivity and soreness can easily develop into pulpitis, periapical periodontitis, etc. It is recommended that mothers try their best Don't let your baby chew ice cubes. It is best to help your baby cool the food first when eating hot pot in autumn and winter.
The food put in the mouth should be "over the lips without being hot" to prevent the baby's mouth from being stimulated by too cold or too hot to cause toothache.
3. Drink milk and juice before going to bed
Milk contains high lactose, and fruit juice contains high sugar content. These sugar residues in the baby’s mouth are the most likely to cause dental caries.
In addition, the residue of milk in the oral cavity can easily generate bacteria and damage the teeth. If you go to bed without cleaning after drinking milk, it is easy to cause tooth decay due to the accumulation of sugar for a long time.
4. Use your teeth to open things
Babies like to learn how to bite beverage bottle caps with their teeth. Although the baby’s powerful teeth successfully bite the bottle cap open, they don’t know that the teeth may have been cracked. This "little problem" often begins to be unnoticeable, as the cracks gradually It deepened, and only then began to feel pain and discomfort when chewing, and the situation became more and more serious.
Although younger babies can't bite the bottle cap, they also like to tear the packaging with their teeth. In fact, it is also easy to come into contact with the bacteria on the packaging, and the disease can enter the mouth.
5. molars
Babies often grind their teeth, which tends to cause premature wear of the teeth, revealing the dentin, causing dentine hypersensitivity, and intense pain when encountering hot, sour, sweet and other stimuli.
If the baby's teeth are severely worn, the height of the teeth is decreased, and the facial muscles are overly fatigued, temporomandibular joint disorder syndrome will occur. When speaking, singing or eating, the baby's mandibular joint and local muscles will be sore, and even difficult to open the mouth.
6. Overeating
Overeating, excessive intake of fatty, spicy, fried food and other foods can easily cause damage to the spleen and stomach, indigestion, oral ulcers, mouth erosions and other symptoms. Coupled with poor rest, the number and frequency of eating is also much higher than usual, which can induce acute attacks of inflammation and cause tooth pain.
Therefore, we must control the baby's eating habits, achieve a balanced nutrition, appropriate diet, and don't let the baby become a "slave" of food.
7. eat too much snacks
When eating snacks, the mouth secretes less saliva, and the food is more likely to remain on the teeth. Especially starchy foods. Baby eating snacks has no effect on the body. Therefore, parents should have a relatively fixed amount and time of snacks for their children.
Generally, it is not allowed to eat before meals and before going to bed, especially at night before going to bed, let the children eat snacks such as cakes and candies. If babies have to eat snacks before going to bed because of hunger, they must be urged to brush their teeth or gargle, clean their teeth and mouth after eating, otherwise it is easy to cause tooth decay.
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