How to prevent tooth decay in babies

Tooth decay is a common symptom for us. Although this symptom will not threaten our life, it will not only cause us pain but also easily affect our diet, bringing many inconveniences to our work and life. Therefore, we must pay attention to diseases such as tooth decay. Babies are prone to tooth decay. In the following article, we will introduce to parents and friends how to prevent tooth decay in babies.

Baby caries, also known as tooth decay, is tooth decay that occurs in early childhood. In terms of the position of teeth in the mouth, the upper front teeth are most susceptible to infant caries. After suffering from caries, the teeth may first turn from yellow to black, and then the teeth may have tooth tissue defects, which is the most common.

There are other reasons, such as some foods you eat, foods containing pigments, and even traditional Chinese medicine, which can have pigments stay on the surface of teeth and cause them to turn black. If conditions permit, you can go to the hospital for a check-up, because we usually say that children start to grow teeth at 6 months old, and should be within 6 to 12 months. If you take your child to a professional dental hospital pediatric department for a check-up, the doctor will do an oral examination for your child and give you some feeding advice.

The susceptibility to dental caries in childhood is related to the following reasons:

1. The degree of calcification of deciduous teeth is low and their acid resistance is poor;

2. Children’s diets are mostly soft, sticky foods that are high in sugar, easy to ferment and produce acid, such as cakes, candies, chocolates, etc.

3. Children have poor self-care ability and poor oral hygiene, which makes it easy for food and soft plaque to remain on the tooth surface and produce acid;

4. Children sleep for a long time, and their saliva secretion is reduced during sleep, which is conducive to the growth of bacteria and disease, and increases the chance of dental caries;

5. Children eat less fiber-containing food, which is not conducive to tooth surface cleaning;

6. The shape of deciduous teeth is conducive to food residue and bacterial reproduction, leading to tooth decay.

In the above article, we introduced a common symptom, which is tooth decay. We know that tooth decay is a disease that can easily cause many kinds of harm to patients, so we must do a good job in preventing tooth decay. The above article introduces in detail how to prevent tooth decay in babies.