What to do if your child's teeth are loose

Children will have two periods of tooth replacement during childhood. When teeth are replaced, they are usually very loose and can easily fall out. During the tooth replacement stage, children's teeth generally become slightly loose. Some children don’t know what is going on and often touch the loose tooth. Generally, there will not be too much pain when the tooth becomes loose. However, many friends who are parents for the first time often ask the question of what to do when children’s teeth are loose.

Children often have loose teeth during their growth and development stage. Parents should pay special attention not to remove loose teeth easily, but to find out the cause and choose a reasonable method of treatment. Most loose teeth can be retained through treatment, and the earlier the treatment, the better the effect. So what should we do about loose teeth in children?

1. For mild loose teeth caused by periodontal disease, most of them can return to normal through effective treatment of periodontal disease; if the teeth are moderately loose, not only the periodontal disease needs to be treated. In order to reduce the load on the loose teeth and prevent them from getting looser, the loose teeth should be ligated and fixed together with the adjacent teeth. At this time, most loose teeth cannot be restored. If the teeth are severely loose, that is, there is obvious looseness up and down, left and right, in order not to increase the unnecessary burden on the adjacent teeth, the method of extracting the affected teeth is often used.

2. If a child's teeth are loose due to trauma, if the looseness is mild, you can take anti-inflammatory drugs (spiramycin, lincomycin, etc.). Once the inflammation subsides, the stability of the teeth will automatically recover. If the looseness is severe or dislocated or shifted, you should soothe the injured teeth, and then ligate and fix them on the adjacent teeth. At the same time, take anti-inflammatory drugs, pay attention to oral hygiene, and prohibit using this tooth in the short term, etc. After 1 to 2 months, the tooth will return to normal.

Regarding the question of what to do if children's teeth are loose, I believe that everyone has a certain understanding after reading the above content. Generally speaking, if a child does not experience inflammation or severe pain during the period when his teeth become loose, the tooth is usually allowed to loosen automatically. After a period of time, the child's tooth can be pulled out, or the child can be taken to the hospital and have the doctor pull out the tooth for him.