At what age do children start to lose their teeth? What should I pay attention to?

When children are young, they don’t understand anything, so their parents have to worry about many things for them. For example, when children's teeth are changing, if parents pay more attention and correct their children's bad habits in time, it can prevent the teeth from growing crooked. However, some young parents do not know when their children start to change their teeth, and what they should pay attention to during the process, so the editor will give you a brief introduction.

Children usually start to lose their teeth around the age of 6. "Tooth replacement" is just a popular term among the people. In medicine, it is called "replacement of deciduous teeth." The replacement of deciduous teeth is divided into two processes: one is "deciduous tooth shedding", that is, the deciduous teeth gradually loosen until they fall out. The second process is the "eruption of permanent teeth", that is, as the deciduous teeth fall out one by one, the permanent teeth will erupt one by one. The process of replacing the entire mouth of deciduous teeth takes about 6 years, which means that the entire tooth replacement process is completed when the child is about 12 years old.

By the age of 12, all of a child's deciduous teeth should have fallen out and been replaced by permanent teeth. If a child is over 12 years old and still has deciduous teeth in his mouth, he should go to the hospital for treatment.

There are many reasons for the delayed loss of deciduous teeth. The most common one is that children eat too finely and do not fully utilize the physiological stimulation of their teeth. The main function of teeth is to chew food. Chewing food can promote the growth and development of the roots of deciduous teeth as well as their natural absorption and shedding.

Therefore, as children grow older, they should eat more chewy foods to maintain good stimulation to the deciduous teeth and encourage them to fall out on time. When the child's incisors and molars have erupted, you can add some celery, corn, apples and other foods to his or her diet to help the tooth replacement go smoothly and give your child a healthy and neat set of teeth.

Generally, children will start to change their teeth at around six years old. When they start to change their teeth, parents should pay attention to the time when their children's deciduous teeth fall out. If the permanent teeth grow out and the deciduous teeth have not fallen out yet, they must be sure to remove the deciduous teeth in time to prevent the teeth from growing crooked. Also, make sure your child eats more chewy foods to help him or her grind their teeth.