What to do if a three-year-old baby has tooth decay
Three-year-old baby is young, if parents do not carry out good education and prevention in ordinary life, it will often lead to tooth decay in the baby, although the child will change teeth in childhood, but the damage to teeth and gums is also very serious, will cause some undesirable manifestations such as tooth dysplasia in adulthood, we know that teeth are white is a good façade, so parents must strengthen education and health care in this area.
Mothers must help babies develop a good habit of brushing their teeth from an early age, so as to effectively reduce or eliminate plaque, thereby changing the oral environment, experts point out that creating cleaning conditions is an important part of preventing caries. Many children don't like to brush their teeth, and what mothers should do at this time is to try to help their babies increase their interest in brushing, so as to remove most of the bacteria in the mouth and reduce plaque formation.
When brushing your teeth, you must pay attention to the habit of brushing your teeth in the morning and evening, and if possible, you should brush your teeth and rinse your mouth in time after each meal. What's more, the reason why it is important to brush your teeth at night is because you sleep for a long time at night, and at this time, bacteria can easily multiply in large numbers. When brushing your teeth, you should also pay attention to brushing along the way, that is, "brushing up and down" and "brushing inside and out", and also pay attention to the bite surface of the back teeth. In this way, food debris between the teeth and on the individual tooth surfaces can be brushed clean.
Mothers should also pay attention to one point, that is, when teaching the baby to brush his teeth, do not let him brush horizontally, the horizontal brush is easy to damage the gums and can not clean the residue between the teeth.
Control sugar in your diet
On the issue of what to do about tooth decay, we should first pay attention to controlling the diet, our country is a country where cereals are the staple food, and it is difficult to control carbohydrates in the diet to prevent caries.But in addition, in recent years, there has been a significant increase in sugar foods and various beverages, and if mothers do not pay attention to helping their babies control the correct intake of such foods, tooth decay will become more serious. Therefore, mothers should let their babies develop a habit from an early age, and not eating sugar before going to bed must be developed from a young age.
Through the above brief introduction, we have a general understanding of the prevention and maintenance of tooth decay in three-year-old babies. On the one hand, as a child, we should develop good oral hygiene habits, and at the same time, we should also pay attention to our diet, avoid eating too much sweet and greasy food, and pay attention not to eat too cold and hot food, so as to do a good job in dental health.