When do children lose their teeth?

Children's menstrual cycles and some precautions are of great concern to parents, but some adults who become parents for the first time do not have a particularly good understanding of some knowledge about children, which inevitably causes some troubles. For example, when do children lose their teeth? What should we do when children have a fever? And so on. Parents should understand these things in advance so that they will not be so panicked when they encounter them.

After children reach the age of 6, their deciduous teeth will fall out one after another and be replaced by permanent teeth. 6-12 years old is the period of tooth replacement

For children aged five or six, changing their teeth may be more important than letting them play the piano, roller skate, or learn arithmetic. Because the newly grown permanent teeth will accompany them almost throughout their lives and are related to their diet, appearance, and even psychology. Health care during the tooth replacement period is very important and is directly related to whether the child’s teeth will be neat and beautiful in the future. Therefore, parents should strengthen the care of their children during this period so that their children can have good teeth.

Note 1: Whether the deciduous teeth are retained or lost early

There is a certain time and order for the shedding of deciduous teeth. Deciduous teeth that should fall out but don't are called retained deciduous teeth, and the consequence is often that permanent teeth cannot erupt in the normal position. Most children begin to change their teeth at the age of five or six, some start at the age of four, and some children may not lose their first deciduous tooth until the age of seven. Tooth loss usually starts with the two lower front teeth, followed by the two upper front teeth. The most common situation is that the lower front permanent teeth grow on the inside of the deciduous teeth, and the upper front permanent teeth grow on the outside of the deciduous teeth, making it look like double-layer teeth. What should we do if we encounter this situation? Your child should be taken to the hospital as soon as possible to remove retained deciduous teeth to make room for the permanent teeth to erupt.

If the deciduous teeth fall out before they should, it is called premature loss of deciduous teeth. This often causes the adjacent teeth on both sides to tilt toward the gap between the missing teeth, making the gap smaller and causing the permanent teeth to erupt out of place due to insufficient space. At this time, a gap maintainer (custom-made by the hospital's dental department) should be worn in the gap between the deciduous teeth to prevent the teeth on both sides from tilting, so as to maintain the proper eruption position of the permanent teeth until the permanent teeth erupt.

The above introduces the question of when children lose their teeth in detail from various aspects. I believe everyone has already understood it very well, especially those who have just become parents should pay more attention to these basic common sense so that they can have a clear idea when they encounter it, and can make timely judgments and deal with the adverse conditions of their children's bodies in time to avoid making wrong judgments that affect their children's physical health.