How to treat tooth decay in three-year-old babies

Many children have tooth decay, especially three-year-old babies. Because their bodies are still in the development stage and their teeth are not fully mature, it is easy for them to develop tooth decay due to some bad habits such as diet. This will also bring about very unfavorable conditions for children's future tooth replacement. In addition, parents often have a misunderstanding that three-year-old babies do not need to maintain their teeth, which often aggravates the occurrence of tooth decay. In addition, some bad eating habits also cause tooth decay.

Experts suggest that mothers should try to feed their babies more rough, hard and fiber-containing foods in daily life. The crude fiber in this type of food can have a friction and cleansing effect on the tooth surface, and it can reduce the accumulation of food debris and hard food. Moreover, this type of food needs to be chewed thoroughly. The continuous chewing process can not only strengthen the periodontal tissue, but also rub the biting surface of the teeth, thereby shallowing the pits and fissures, which is beneficial to reducing pit and fissure caries, and can also reduce or eliminate pathogenic irritants.

2. Brush your teeth

Mothers must help their babies develop a good habit of brushing their teeth from an early age, which can effectively reduce or eliminate plaque and thus change the oral environment. Experts point out that creating clean conditions is an important part of preventing caries. Many children do not like brushing their teeth. What mothers need to do at this time is to try their best to help their babies increase their interest in brushing their teeth, so as to remove most of the bacteria in the mouth and reduce plaque formation.

You must pay attention when brushing your teeth. You should develop the habit of brushing your teeth in the morning and evening. If conditions permit, you should brush your teeth and rinse your mouth in time after each meal. What’s more important is that the reason why you must brush your teeth at night is because you sleep for a long time, and bacteria can easily multiply at this time. When brushing your teeth, you should also pay attention to brushing in the correct direction, that is, "brush up and down" and "brush inside and outside", and also pay attention to brushing the biting surface of the back teeth. This is the only way to clean out the food residues between teeth and on each tooth surface.

Mothers should also pay attention to one thing, that is, when teaching babies to brush their teeth, never let them brush horizontally. Brushing horizontally can easily damage the gums and fail to clean out the residue in the teeth.

3. Control sugar in your diet

When it comes to what to do about tooth decay, we should first pay attention to controlling our diet. my country is a country where cereals are the staple food, and it is difficult to prevent tooth decay by controlling the carbohydrates in the diet. But in addition to this, sugary foods and various beverages have increased significantly in recent years. If the mother does not pay attention to helping the baby control the correct intake of such foods at this time, tooth decay will become more serious. Therefore, mothers should let their babies develop the habit of not eating sweets before going to bed from an early age.

Above we have looked at how to treat tooth decay in three-year-old babies. For babies, try to focus on prevention. If tooth decay occurs, you should go to the dentist for relevant treatment in time. In addition, as parents, we must educate our children to maintain good oral hygiene habits and learn the correct way to brush their teeth to avoid tooth decay and adverse effects on their health.