How to deal with children's lost teeth

Children are lively and active, so their teeth are easily injured. Except for teeth that fall out automatically, you should pay attention to dental injuries because sometimes if you hit your front teeth and cause them to fall out, they can be reattached if they are well preserved. Even fallen deciduous teeth can be treated because tooth loss can have a great impact on your teeth and even affect your normal eating in the future.

The teeth that children knock out are very important and must be protected and medical attention sought immediately.

Even if the lost teeth are deciduous, they should be replaced

Zhang Ying, director of the Oral Prevention Teaching and Research Section of the School of Stomatology Affiliated to China Medical University, said that in fact, both parents and children should remember: do not discard traumatized teeth lightly. If the teeth that fall out are baby teeth or they are injured, don't think that it's okay because you can still get new teeth later. If your deciduous teeth are injured, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time, and the doctor will decide whether to retain the affected teeth based on the actual situation. Special treatment of deciduous tooth trauma requires that damaged deciduous teeth be preserved as much as possible in order to preserve the normal deciduous dentition. This is important for the eruption of permanent teeth, maxillofacial development and growth.

Zhang Ying introduced that if the permanent teeth that have been replaced have external injuries, they must not be discarded. Because children have strong regenerative abilities and a high success rate for replantation, they should go to the hospital immediately for replantation surgery, and it may be possible to keep their own teeth. Even if the crown of the tooth is broken off, leaving only the root, the root cannot be easily removed. It is much better to retain the broken tooth root after root canal treatment and then use the root as the basis for post crown restoration than to extract the tooth root and replace it with a removable denture.

The best chance of having the tooth connected within 30 minutes

Zhang Ying introduced that buying time is the key to successful dental reimplantation. The length of time from tooth loss to tooth implantation back into the original socket is the key to the success of reimplantation. The shorter the time, the higher the success rate. The treatment effect and prognosis are best if the well-protected detached tooth is transplanted back into the alveolar socket within 30 minutes. If it exceeds 90 minutes, the success rate is greatly reduced. Therefore, if dental trauma occurs, you should protect your teeth and go to the hospital as soon as possible.

So once a child suffers a dental injury, how should parents deal with it urgently?

① If a tooth is completely dislocated, the first thing you should do is to find the tooth that has been knocked out. If possible, rinse it in clean water. Do not scrub it hard or scratch the root surface with instruments, as this will damage the periodontal tissue on the root surface.

② After rinsing, the fallen tooth should be immediately stuffed back into its original socket, or placed in the saliva under the tongue in the mouth, or in milk or saline. The purpose of doing this is to ensure the vitality of the cells on the surface of the tooth. After the tooth is completely out of the alveolar socket, it is exposed to the air for a long time, and the dry environment will cause necrosis of the periodontal ligament cells on the root surface.

③If the tooth is just broken and not completely fallen out, you should pick up the broken tooth. The new view is that through preliminary treatment by a doctor, broken teeth may be used as materials, and when the doctor fills the broken teeth, he can compare them with the previous teeth, making the appearance closer to the natural state.

④After protecting your teeth, seek medical attention immediately.

In short, no matter whether the knocked-out tooth is useful or not, it should be picked up and taken to the hospital for treatment by a doctor.