What should children pay attention to during their tooth replacement period?

Tooth replacement is something that everyone will experience during childhood, and this requires parents to pay great attention to it. Dentists remind that if you want your children to have a healthy set of teeth, it is recommended that parents carefully understand some precautions regarding their children's tooth replacement period. So, what should we pay attention to during the children’s tooth replacement period? Come and have a look.

Changing teeth seems to be a very common thing for children, but it is actually not simple. If you pay attention to some things during the tooth replacement period, your child can have healthy teeth; otherwise, it may lead to some adverse consequences.

What should children pay attention to during their tooth replacement period?

Note 1: Correct your child’s bad habits

During the tooth replacement period, deciduous teeth and permanent teeth coexist. The permanent teeth have just erupted, especially the "six-year teeth" which are the "key to bite". They are large in size and have many pits and fissures on the occlusal surface, which easily retain food residues. In addition, most children do not brush their teeth thoroughly, so caries are often prone to occur. The most important thing at this time is to teach your child to brush their teeth correctly. During the tooth replacement period, when the deciduous teeth are loose and about to fall out, children often have the habit of licking the loose teeth with their tongues. This is a bad habit that will affect the normal eruption of permanent teeth and should be corrected in time.

Note 2: Misaligned teeth can affect your appearance

During the tooth replacement period, children's teeth are replaced, the jaws are developing, and the bite relationship is gradually established. Sometimes a temporary misalignment may occur, but during the development of the teeth, it can often adjust itself and return to normal. Some malocclusions, such as the frenulum of the upper lip being too low, causing the gap between the upper front teeth to be too large and unable to be adjusted by itself, will affect facial development. You should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, otherwise it will affect the child's appearance.

Note 3: Prevention and treatment of caries in primary molars

During the period of tooth replacement, deciduous molars are prone to caries. If caries cause apical disease, it can affect the growth and eruption of secondary permanent teeth. Therefore, attention should be paid to the timely treatment and prevention of caries in deciduous molars. We must not have the wrong idea that "deciduous teeth will be replaced sooner or later, so there is no need to treat them if they are damaged." Doctor's advice: Try to keep the deciduous teeth until the permanent teeth erupt. If the deciduous teeth are lost prematurely, it often leads to insufficient space for the secondary permanent teeth to erupt and cause malocclusion.

Note 4: Eat more chewy foods when teeth are changing

When children are about six or seven years old, permanent teeth begin to erupt and replace the original deciduous teeth. Although some children's permanent teeth have erupted, the deciduous teeth often refuse to "give way", forcing the permanent teeth to grow from the inside of the deciduous teeth, forming "double-layer teeth" and causing the permanent teeth to be unevenly arranged. 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 promote their timely shedding. 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 ensure a smooth tooth replacement and give your child a healthy and neat set of teeth.

Teeth are very important to each of us, so if you want to have a healthy set of teeth, you need to pay attention to protection from the time children's teeth are replaced. Knowing some precautions about tooth replacement can make children's teeth healthier. So, here are four things that parents should pay attention to during children's tooth replacement period. I hope parents can pay attention to them.