Don't regret waiting for your teeth!How to protect your teeth?The suggestion of the expert is ...

It is another year of school.

For many parents, the "god beast" is grateful to the cage, but there are some practical problems that are bald. Such as children's teeth. Taking dental disease as an example, once a certain degree of severity, treatment can no longer be done in one or two.

Therefore, when the academic pressure just started is not so great, maybe look at the teeth of the "God Beasts" to prepare? When necessary, go to the dentist early.

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01. "God Beasts" tooth problems

The so -called "god beast" refers to children from kindergarten to high school. The focus of teachers and parents is their school age, and the focus of dentist is their "dental" age. The so -called "teeth" here do not refer to the age of a certain teeth, but the age stage of the entire dental list.

From kindergarten to high school, the teeth development of the "God Beasts" must go through the deciduous period (before the age of 6, early school age), mixed dental period (6-12 years old, academic age) and permanent dental period (12-18 years old, Youth) 3 stages.

At the above stages, there are 2 more prominent tooth problems: tooth decay and maxillofacial deformity.

Tooth decay

It is undeniable that tooth decay is a common disease of people in all ages. However, the tooth decay of people in different ages is not the same, but the high incidence period of deciduous dental dental caries and permanent dental dental caries is not the same. To prevent tooth decay, it can be regarded as the top priority of dental disease prevention.

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During this period, tooth decay will have a lot of negative effects on physical health:

The tooth chewing function will be reduced due to tooth decay, which can affect nutritional intake;

Premature lack of deciduous dental dental dental caries can cause poor jaw development or the permanent teeth are not smooth, thereby increasing the possibility of dental and maxillofacial malformations;

The first Hengmo teeth are in a pivotal position in the entire permanent teeth. If you have a pulp, a tip of the roots, or even the lack of root causes due to tooth decay, it will adversely affect the normal occlusion relationship between the chewing function and the upper and lower teeth;

Severe deciduous caries can even cause systemic diseases.

Early discovery and early treatment are important for the ending of tooth decay.

Termination of tooth decay as soon as possible, on the one hand, it is conducive to retaining more healthy dental tissues; on the other hand, it can avoid the neighboring tissue of the lesion parts to be greaterly implicated.

If the tooth decay lesions are limited to the hard tissue of the teeth, as long as the teeth are simply grinded and supplemented; if the lesion is involved to the soft tissue of the teeth, the pulp, the situation will become more tricky.

At this time, there may be two types of pulp: one is reversible inflammation, which can be routine to replenish teeth after the elimination of pulp inflammation; the other is irreversible inflammation. At this time, root canal treatment is needed.

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Compared with adults, "god beasts" are more difficult to receive root canal treatment:

1. "God Beasts" are often poor to pain tolerance.

Root canal therapy is usually divided into 3 steps, that is, root canal preparation, root canal disinfection and root canal filling. These 3 steps cannot be completed at one time. If the pulp inflammation even affects the tissue around the root of the root, it is even more impossible to complete the root canal treatment at once. Whether the root canal treatment can be successfully completed will become a headache for parents.

2. The teeth of the "God Beasts" are more complicated.

Many people may think that the growing teeth are developed teeth.

But in fact, the development of different structures of the teeth is seasons, that is, the development of the dental crown first, and the development of the teeth. When the teeth grow up, the roots of the teeth are not completely formed. The professional name of this type of teeth is "young permanent teeth". If the pulp inflammation has occurred and in an irreversible state, such tooth is not directly treated with root canal treatment.

In other words, it is to help the roots continue to develop until normal tooth roots are formed. Can not directly treat root canal treatment, it will become something that parents have unexpected.

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Dental deformity

With the increasing level of living, the degree of refinement of food has also risen. But there are more and more situations of dental deformation.

The reason for this is both the lack of jawbone, the abnormal time of the permanent teeth or the deciduous teeth falling off, and even some adverse habits, such as sucking finger, tongue, biting lower lips, and breathing.

Early discovery and early consultation are very important for preventing dental deformities.

The significance of the special examination as soon as possible is to understand the severity and possible causes of dental and maxillofacial deformities in a timely manner, and take corresponding measures according to the doctor's suggestion, such as correcting bad habits or receiving correction treatment in a timely manner.

Although the concept of "face value is justice" is not desirable, the face value does affect the children's self -confidence, so the prevention of dental and maxillofacial deformity cannot be underestimated. Of course, dental and maxillofacial deformities will also bring corresponding tooth health problems, such as crowded teeth more likely to cause tooth decay.

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02. Specialist examination and treatment, arrange!

Since tooth decay is a top priority for dental disease prevention, you can't wait to look at it.

Tooth decay screening can not only detect tooth decay and remedy in time; but also take more effective professional prevention measures for teeth with tendencies with tooth decay, such as fluoride or ditch closure.

Fluoride is suitable for all teeth, and the closure of the ditch is suitable for teeth with deep nest gaps. Generally speaking, it is molaring teeth, especially the first constant grinding teeth. Although dentists always brush their teeth carefully as the first line of defense of dental health, in fact, brushing can not clean all parts of the tooth surface. The ditch on the convergence of the teeth is one of the parts that can not be cleaned by brushing teeth, and the closure of the nest gap is a solution to this problem.

The essence of the closure of the nest is to completely block the bacteria from the passage of the tooth into the teeth. It is worth noting that the ditch closure is a tooth disease prevention technology, not the treatment technology. For tooth decay that has already occurred, the closure of the ditch is "the dead sheep make up for it, it's too late".

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For dental and maxillofacial malformations, early treatment is not necessarily necessary, but it is really important to check as soon as possible. Only after a specialized inspection can the problem be found early, thereby determining scientific and reasonable treatment strategies. The best time to correct the treatment is also determined by a professional oral orthodonticist.

03. How can children protect their teeth?

Although the doctor has always emphasized that the habit of developing dental health care must be "starting from the doll", during the deciduous period, the first responsible person of the dental health care is the parents, not the child himself. Therefore, at this stage, children's teeth are good or not, testing parents' tooth health awareness and ability.

As a parent, you should know the following points:

1. It is important to use fluorine toothpaste. Do not listen to the so -called advertising propaganda and refuse to contain fluoride toothpaste thousands of miles away;

2.3 to 6 -year -old children with fluoride toothpaste are the size of a pea;

3. Children's brushing method is the arc brushing method. The most significant feature of this method is that the toothbrush is used to draw the arc on the surface of the tooth. This method is simple to operate, convenient for parents to brush their teeth for children;

4. Electric toothbrushes are not the best choice at this stage.

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Starting from the mixed dental period, children can gradually cultivate children to form self -care habits, that is, the responsible person of dental health can gradually convert from parents to children. Children can continue to use the arc brushing method to clean their teeth, or they can also learn to improve the BASS brushing method.

No matter what kind of method, the most critical point is that brushing your teeth must be available, and there must be no omissions. At the stage of learning brushing methods, electric toothbrushes are not recommended. The disadvantage of using electric toothbrushes is mainly to allow users to generate dependence, thereby ignoring the importance of mastering brushing skills.

Although it is said that "the hand is not as good as the family", it is difficult to do oral health alone based on the "good family" alone. Only "hand -clever+family is wonderful" can the electric toothbrush play a role in the tiger.

Considering that the "god beasts" are more susceptible to tooth decay and the various impact and treatment problems brought about by this, coupled with the problems of dental and maxillofacial deformity, parents should help them exclude the hidden dangers of dental health as soon as possible.

The earlier the tooth decay, the more timely remedy, the less loser the teeth tissue, the less the number of treatment, the smaller the pain of the child's experience; the earlier the dental and maxillofacial deformity examination, the earlier The greater the possibility, the smaller the effect of deformity on face value and dental health.

In particular, the correction of dental and maxillofacial deformity is often a long -term process. It is necessary to take into account academic and dental health, and parents must plan in advance.

Author ｜ Fufu

Audit ｜ Rongwen Sheng, a doctor of dental medicine, chief physician of Stomatology Hospital of Peking University Stomatology Hospital; Deputy Chairman of the Chief Executive Committee of the Chinese Stomatology Association; Secretary -General of the Chinese Prevention Medical Association Oral Health Care Commission; Chinese dental disease prevention and control Executive Deputy Secretary -General of the Foundation; Chief Scientific Communication Expert of Oral Health Health of Chinese Science and Technology Association; Member of the World Dental League Public Health Committee; Member of the World Public Health Association Alliance Stomatoscopy Commission

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[1] Hu Deyu, editor -in -chief. Oral prevention medicine (6th edition) [M]. Beijing: People's Health Publishing House, 2012.

[2] Fan Mingwen, editor -in -chief. Dental pulp disease (4th edition) [M]. Beijing: People's Health Publishing House, 2012.

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