first tip invite children to the dentist

The first experience of children to the dentist, is crucial. Wherever possible, the first experience of the child and the doctor there is no cure, but only the teeth and oral cavity health examination. So doctors do not perform actions such as patches or pull heavy teeth. Routine dental examinations every 6 months, your child will be familiar with a dentist.
Not few of parents who have difficulty bringing their children to the dentist. Fears and concerns that excess often make your child feel reluctant to go to the dentist. parents need to mentally prepare the child before going to the dentist. here are some tips that can help.

• Early oral health examination of children. Child to the dentist in a state of no complaints would be more cooperative than if he had complaints of a toothache. So do not wait until your child complains of a toothache.
• Children become familiar with the dental clinical situation. Don't forget to select clinics dental are convenient and fun for children.
• Make an appointment with the dentist choose a time when not cool children, sleep and fatigue. If the child is not in the mood, that certainly sensitive to the dentist.
• Tell the child that the dentist will check and clean your child's teeth to clean, and painless. If it has to do some action on the teeth, the child will feel cheated by the parents and then make the child no longer wants to see a dentist.
• Let your pet take your child bring his favorite items, such as dolls, toy cushion covers or anything. They may feel more calm and comfortable with these items.
• Show your enthusiasm when you invite your child to the doctor. If you need to give gifts such as 'Best Brave Child Certificate' (homemade), or small pin as a sign of children are able to pass through fear. If you're happy, your kids are also excited.

The most important, to find a dentist who can handle a child's dental care. "As dentists are patient and can communicate well with children, as well as having special medical equipment to make them feel comfortable while doing dental work," he concluded. One more thing to keep in mind, the child's first visit to the dentist is very important so it needs good preparation.

Dental surgery visits

Getting to know the dentist and the dental surgery staff is very worthwhile. The best time to take your child to the dentist is shortly after the first tooth erupts, usually by twelve months of age. You can ask the dentist questions about your child's dental care and learn more about dental problems. In early preventive visits, the dentist is able to detect developing problems in the early stages, when they are solved more easily, painlessly and inexpensively. More important, your child will have positive early experiences in the dentist's surgery. By the time she is three, she will be a dental-surgery veteran. Most future visits will be preventive in nature, rather than the traditional drill-and-fill sessions that haunt the childhood memories of so many adults.

Preventing mouth injuries

Young children stumble often and their teeth are located at a perfect heigh for crashing into the edge of a coffee table. So crashproof your toddler's cruising area. Take extraordinary care to make sure he doesn't have the opportunity to bite any electrical wires. (And while you're at it, make sure you cover all electrical wall sockets, to prevent shocks.) Don't let your child parade around the house with a toothbrush in her mouth. It may do serious damage if she falls.
The risks of dental injuries rises when children play sports. All too often, a child can be unintentionally kicked in the mouth, struck with a ball or hit by a bat. Children in organized sports generally need to wear a comfortable protective mouth guard, sort of a crash helmet for the teeth. Mouth guards are sold at sporting goods stores or pharmacies; or your child's dentist can make a custom-fitted mouth guard. Rough individual activities such as in-line skating, skateboarding and martial arts also call for mouth guards.

Dental injuries

Dental injuries can occur to all teeth, most commonly the teeth in the front of the mouth. Teeth can be cracked, displaced from their sockets or completely knocked out. Dentists are concerned about trauma to primary teeth and even more so about damage to permanent teeth, which may have important lifelong consequences. Parents should always consult their child's dentist after tooth trauma. Some injuries are not easily observable. A dentist is trained to make a complete diagnosis and perform the proper treatment.

Cracked teeth. A tooth is composed of three layers: the outer protective enamel; the internal supportive structure, called dentin; and the soft tissue centre of the tooth containing the nerves, called the dental pulp. A crack (fracture) in a tooth can affect any or all of these layers. A small fracture may require only smoothing by the dentist using a sandpaperlike instrument. A more extensive rack may require a dental restoration to reestablish the form, function and appearance of the tooth. If a dental fracture affects the hollow portion in the centre of the tooth and exposes the dental pulp (there is usually bleeding from the exposed region), a dentist should be seen as soon as possible so he can repair the damage and prevent loss of the pulp. If a part of the pulp does die, the tooth can still be saved with endodontic (root canal) therapy: removing the dead pulp tissue and filling the root canal space with a sterile filling material. The tooth can then be repaired in the usual manner.

Loosened teeth. Most times slightly loosened teeth will reattach themselves and become stable after a few days'rest. Sometimes, however, teeth are so loose that the dentist needs to splint them together to stabilize them while healing occurs. Antibiotics are sometimes beneficial, to prevent infection of the dental pulp and attachment tissues. Dentists will advise a soft diet for a time to help the healing process.

Avulsed teeth. Sometimes, a tooth may be completely knocked out of the mouth (an avulsed tooth). If a baby tooth is avulsed, dentists usually recommend not to reimplant it. Underlying permanent teeth may suffer developmental damage when a traumatized primary tooth is reimplanted. A permanent tooth should be reimplanted as quickly as possible, however, usually within thirty minutes, to maximize the chance of keeping the pulp alive. First, make sure that the tooth is indeed permanent and is intact. Gently hold it by the crown (the part that shows in the mouth), not by the pointed roots. Rinse it very gently under tap water. Do not scrub or rup the root in any way; that will damage the attached tissue, which is required for reattachment. Insert the tooth back into its normal position. If you can not reimplant the tooth, place it in a glass of milk or commerially available tooth rescue container. Then take the child to a dentist or seek dental emergency servise at a hospital A&E department. Time is important with permanet tooth avulsions. After a tooth has been out of the mouth for thirty minutes, the chances for succesful reimplantation drop fast.

Sealants

Sealants are another important part of preventive dentistry. Many teeth have small grooves or pitted areas in the enamel where bits of food and dental plaque accumulate. Most of these tooth surface imperfections are too small for bristles to enter, so the food material and bacterial plaque cannot be brushed or flossed away. Tooth decay, called pit and fissure caries, usually results. However, the dentist or hygienist can often prevent such tooth decay. A sealant consists of a liquid resin that flows across the tooth surface and fills the grooves and pits. It then hardens, sealing off the enamel imperfections. Food debris and dental plaque cannot enter a groove or pit that has been sealed with bonded resin. Other materials are also used as sealants, as dentist continue to seek the ideal method of protecting enamel pits and fissures. Some primary molars may also be given the protection of sealants, but dentists are selective in sealing baby molars. Clinical experience has shown that sealants don't stay bonded to primary teeth as well as they do to permanent teeth. Sealants last for many years; depending on a child's diet and oral habits, they eventually need to be repaired or replaced.

Toothbrushing and flossing

Effective brushing. How can tooth decay be prevented? The secret is daily, consisstent removal of dental plaque before it does its nasty work. First, a tip about cleaning babies'teeth: use a soft-bristled toothbrush. There is a myth that one should use a soft gauze or cloth to wipe a baby's teeth and gums so as not to damage the delicate gum tissue. Those 'delicate' gum tissues chew on table legs, cots, coffee tables, siblings and anything else in their way. A baby's gums are no more delicate than alligator hide. Brush, don't wipe. babies love it.
A child's teeth should be carefully brushed after breakfast and before bedtime, with daily flossing between adjoining teeth, usually before the evening brushing. If possible, an after-lunch brushing is helpful too, to remove food residue. Starting at about two, your child may insist on doing everything herself, but most young children do not have the manual dexterity required for proper brushing and flossing until they are nine or ten years old. You can let your young child begin the brushing by herself from the earliest ages, but you will probably need to finish up to ensure that all dental plaque has been eliminated. You can gradually let your child take over completely when she proves capable, usually between six and ten years.

Flossing. Some parents question the need to floss a child's teeth. Most teeth in the back of a child's mouth are in close contact with those on either side. Even some front teeth may be in tight contact with their neighbours. Such teeth are so close together that food and dental plaque can get wedged in between. No matter how vigorously or carefully they are brushed, the bristles cannot penetrate to clear out the food and plaque. Dental floss disrupts and dislodges that debris so that the toothbrush can sweep it away.
It's worth getting your child used to gentle flossing as soon as you notice food wedged between her teeth. Your child's dentist or dental hygienist can demonstrate all the methods used to hold a child for perfect brushing and flossing. Best of all, when your child is able to brush and floss effectively without your help, she will already be accustomed to the daily habit.

Tooth decay

Some children get a lot of cavities, others almost none. Why is this so? We still don't know all the factors that lead to tooth decay (dental caries), but we do know that heredity plays a role, as do the diet of the pregnant mother, the child and access or lack of access to good dental care.

Bacteria and plaque. The principal cause of tooth decay is acid produced by bacteria living in the mouth. The bacteria combine with food debris to form a material called dental plaque that sticks to tooth surface. The more hours of the day this plaque remains on the teeth, the greater the number of bacteria and the more acid is produced. This acid dissolves the minerals that make up the enamel and dentin of the tooth, eventually destroying the tooth. The bacteria live off sugars and starches in the child's diet. Anything that keeps sugars sitting in the mouth for a long time is likely to be good for the bacteria and bad for the teeth. That is why frequent between-meal snacking promotes tooth decay. Especially harmful are lollipops, sticky sweets, dried fruit, fizzy drinks, which cling to the teeth.
Saliva contains substances that help teeth resist attack by bacteria. Since the body produces less saliva during sleep, nighttime is when cavities form most. That is why brushing the teeth before bed is so important. Foods that promote saliva - such as sugarless gum - can help fight cavities. There are also substances in some sugarless chewing gums, xylitol and sorbitol, that kill cavity-forming bacteria and another substance, casein, that strengthens teeth.

Baby-bottle cavities. An especially severe type of tooth decay is nursing caries or baby-bottle tooth decay. When formula or breast milk sits on a baby's teeth for a long time, the sugars in the milk promote the growth of cavity-forming bacteria, which then destroy the teeth. The teeth most at risk are the upper front teeth, sice the tongue covers the lower teeth during nursing and sucking. There is normally enough time between feedings for the flow of saliva to clean the teeth. But when babies keep a nipple in their mouths much of the time, this normal cleaning may not have a chance to occur. The worst baby-bottle tooth decay happens when babies fall asleep with the bottle in their mouths. While they sleep, formula sits on their teeth and the bacteria multiply away.
Baby-bottle decay may start even before the first birthday. Sometimes nursing caries are so severe that the infected teeth have to be removed. For this reason, a baby should not be put to bed with a bottle of milk, juice or other sweetened fluid. The only acceptable fluid for sleep time is water. Even diluted sweet fluids can promote decay.