Myths associated with children's teeth
Let's look at the most popular myths about children's teeth and find out if they are true.
Myth N1.Milk teeth can not be engaged, not treated - still fall out
WRONG
- First, the baby teeth hurt as well as the permanent, causing the child severe suffering.
- Secondly, teeth with caries are a source of constant infection for the whole organism. This means that the cause of frequent angina and otitis may lie in untreated teeth in time.
- Thirdly, if they are started and not treated, then they will have to be, most likely, anesthetized. And this is a serious problem for the child's body.
- Fourthly, the infection from the milk tooth may well spread to the rudiments of the permanent( they are very close), and they will be cut already by the patients if they cut through at all.
Myth N2.A child can be born with teeth
TRUE
A few thousand newborns are born with one or more teeth. Most often, they do not refer to dairy, called prelactales( that is, premillary).Can have a bizarre shape, do not have roots, spontaneously drop out. If they interfere with normal feeding, they are removed. Before this, a picture is taken on the viziograph to make sure that the rudiments are in place, and they will erupt when the time comes.
Myth # 3.It is necessary to give the child a sweet, what kind of childhood without sweets?
50/50
At least up to 3 years you need to try not to give the child confectionery, this directly affects the health of his teeth, and the gastrointestinal tract too. It is better that on the table there are always useful sweets - fruits, sweet dried fruits, honey( if there is no hypersensitivity).Parents are the best example before your eyes, so you need to fight first and foremost with your bad habits and not eat out sweet on the sly.
Myth N4.The most useful candy is caramels
The most harmful delusion of loving grandmothers.
WRONG
The longer is the sweetness in the mouth, the more harmful. For teeth "quickly eaten - not harmful".Therefore, preference should be given to marshmallow, marmalade, pastille, good quality chocolate. But caramel, jam, chupa-chups to the child can not be given at all: it's just a storehouse of sugar and acid, which remains on the teeth for a long time, very pleasing to the pathogenic microflora causing caries.
Myth # 5.Dental health depends on heredity
Therefore, it makes no sense to experience - if the parents have strong, the same will be the child. And vice versa, if the parents have bad teeth, do not do it, the child does not have strong teeth.
WRONG
People for whom caries are not contagious - about 1% of the total population. They are simply resistant to the cariogenic microflora. The remaining caries are affected to some extent. With him you can and need to fight. Basic principles:
- . Oral hygiene. Constant, daily, thorough. Toothpaste is necessary with fluoride. By the way, the fact that fluoride is harmful is no more than another myth of our time.
- Restriction of sweet, fruits and vegetables in large quantities. Water and salt are fluorinated.
- Regular visit to the dentist - once every six months. For children - also fluoroprophylaxis at the same time.