Causes and prevention of yellowing of children's teeth

Nowadays, most families have only one child. The health of the child is directly related to the happiness of the family. The yellowing of children's teeth is also a problem that many parents have paid attention to recently. Teeth are a very important organ in our body. We rely on them to chew food, so the protection of teeth is very important. Today we talk about the problem of yellow teeth in children and give you a reference.

1. Introduction to Teeth

Teeth are a structure found in many vertebrates and are organs used by humans and higher animals to chew food. Teeth are the hardest organ in the human body. Generally speaking, teeth are white (slightly yellowish in normal people) and have a hard texture. The various shapes of teeth are suitable for a variety of purposes, including tearing and grinding food. Teeth are animals' natural weapons of self-defense. The pronunciation of human language is closely related to the upper and lower front teeth in the mouth. The standard language of the ancient Chinese is called "Ya Yan". The cleanliness of teeth is even related to social activities and status. In modern medicine, teeth are divided into: incisors, lateral incisors, canines, first premolars, second premolars, first molars, second molars, and third molars, which has misled quite a number of people. Note: Now dental medicine textbooks have uniformly divided teeth into: left/right central incisors, left/right right incisors, left/right canines, left/right first bicuspids, left/right second bicuspids, left/right first molars, left/right second molars, left/right third molars (generally called wisdom teeth), either fully called teeth or fully called teeth.

2. Functions of Teeth

Teeth not only help chew food and pronounce, but also have a great impact on the beauty of the face. Due to the support of teeth and alveolar bones, normal dental arch shape and occlusion, a person's face and lips and cheeks appear plump. When people talk and smile, neat and white teeth can better show their health and beauty. On the contrary, if the dental arch develops abnormally and the teeth are arranged disorderly and unevenly, the face will appear unharmonious. If too many teeth are missing, the lips and cheeks will lose support and become sunken, making the person's face look old and thin. Therefore, people often regard teeth as one of the important indicators of bodybuilding.

3. Causes and treatments of yellowing of children’s teeth

Baby, this is infant caries, that 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. Tooth discoloration is generally divided into three categories: extrinsic discoloration, intrinsic discoloration, and discoloration caused by dental pulp disease. Extrinsic staining is easy to understand. It is the deposition of pigments and tartar that causes tooth discoloration. For example, people who drink tea, coffee or smoke are prone to tooth discoloration. This can be fixed by professional cleaning by a dentist. Among the discolorations themselves, the most common is the famous "tetracycline teeth", which is the discoloration of teeth caused by the mother taking tetracycline during pregnancy. This is actually because tetracycline combines with the calcium ions in the teeth to form a complex, causing tooth discoloration. Similar to this are mottled enamel caused by long-term consumption or drinking of too high concentrations of fluoride, and tooth discoloration due to incomplete enamel development.

For the health of everyone's baby, parents must pay attention to preventing their children's teeth from yellowing in advance, and be prepared in all aspects to let their children have healthy teeth. But don't be too nervous. Many things cannot be solved by being nervous. Just pay more attention to it in daily life. You can take a careful look at the above and learn more about this knowledge, which may be useful in the future.