At what age do children usually change their teeth?

Many people don't know at what age children usually change their teeth, so they don't pay enough attention to the period of children's tooth replacement. Eating some foods carelessly may cause great harm to our teeth, we may have cracks on our teeth, or even cause toothache. Let's get familiar with the age at which children usually change their teeth.

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 deciduous teeth are retained or lost prematurely. There is a certain time and order for the shedding of deciduous teeth. If they should fall out but don't, it is called retained deciduous teeth. 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. 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.

Children will go through the tooth replacement stage at around six to seven years old. During this stage, we must not eat hard foods or acidic substances. Acidic substances may affect the development of our teeth. Teeth are very prone to allergic reactions and can be very corrosive to our teeth.