Children usually start to lose their teeth when they are around six years old. Parents should pay special attention to this period. Supervise and remind children to pay attention to dental hygiene.
Children should pay attention when changing their teeth
1: The time and sequence of deciduous teeth falling out
There is a certain time and sequence for the deciduous teeth to fall out. The teeth usually fall out from the bottom. Starting with the two front teeth, followed by the top two front teeth. The most common is that the lower front permanent teeth erupt on the inside of the deciduous teeth, and the upper front permanent teeth erupt on the outside of the deciduous teeth, which looks like a double layer of teeth. What should you do if you encounter this situation? The child should be taken to the hospital as soon as possible to remove the retained deciduous teeth to make room for permanent teeth to erupt.
2: Is there any difficulty in the eruption of permanent teeth?
If deciduous teeth fall out prematurely, children are accustomed to chewing and licking with their gums, and their gums will become hypertrophic, hindering the eruption of permanent teeth. Therefore, if your child has reached the age of teeth replacement but the permanent teeth have not yet erupted, you should take your child to the hospital for a timely check-up to get help from a doctor. Calcium deficiency in children is also an important reason for the delayed eruption of permanent teeth. Parents should provide calcium supplements to their children in time.
When teeth change, the front permanent teeth erupt from below or inside the deciduous teeth. The erupted permanent teeth are the size of adult teeth. Mild crowding and torsion are normal. They can be affected by the eruption of adjacent teeth and the jawbone. It can be adjusted according to the growth and development of the teeth. As long as it is not a cross-bite (i.e. a crooked tooth), there is generally no need for correction, but it should be observed regularly, and the longest should not exceed half a year. If the deciduous teeth are still misaligned after complete replacement, you should seek medical advice promptly to avoid delays in treatment that may cause correction difficulties.
3: Correct children’s bad habits
During the tooth replacement period, deciduous teeth and permanent teeth still exist, and the permanent teeth have just erupted, especially the "sixth-year-old teeth" that are the "key to bite" "It is large in size and has many pits and fissures on the occlusal surface, and it is easy to retain food residues. In addition, most children do not brush their teeth thoroughly, which is often prone to dental caries. The most important thing at this time is to teach your children to brush their teeth correctly. During the tooth replacement period, when 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.
4: Teeth misalignment will affect appearance
In children's tooth replacement period, teeth are being replaced and jaws are developing. As the occlusion relationship is gradually established, temporary misalignment sometimes occurs. Occlusion, during the development of teeth, can often adjust itself and return to normal. Some misaligned bites, such as the gap between the upper front teeth caused by the upper lip frenulum being too low, cannot be adjusted by oneself, which will affect facial development and should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment, otherwise the child's appearance will be affected.
5: Prevention and treatment of primary molar caries
Primary molars are susceptible to caries during the tooth replacement period. If caries causes apical disease, it can affect the growth and eruption of secondary permanent teeth. Therefore, We should pay attention to the timely treatment and prevention of deciduous molar caries, and we must not have the misconception that "the deciduous teeth must be replaced sooner or later, and there is no need to treat them if they are broken." Doctor's advice: Try to keep the deciduous teeth until the permanent teeth erupt. If the deciduous teeth are lost prematurely, it will often lead to insufficient space for the eruption of the secondary permanent teeth, resulting in uneven dentition.
6: Eat more chewy foods when teeth are changing.
When children are about six or seven years old, permanent teeth begin to erupt one after another, replacing the original deciduous teeth. Although some children's permanent teeth have erupted, their deciduous teeth often refuse to "give way", forcing the permanent teeth to grow out from the inside of the deciduous teeth, forming a "double layer of teeth", causing the permanent teeth to be arranged irregularly.
There are many reasons for the delayed loss of deciduous teeth. The most common is that children eat too carefully and do not give full play to the physiological stimulation of the teeth. The main function of teeth is to chew food. Chewing food can promote the growth and development of the roots of deciduous teeth and their natural absorption and shedding.
Therefore, as children grow older, they should be allowed to eat more chewy foods to maintain a good stimulating effect on the deciduous teeth and encourage them to fall out on time. When the child's front teeth and back molars have erupted, you can add some celery, corn, apples and other foods to the child to complete the tooth replacement smoothly and let the child have healthy and straight teeth.
Tooth replacement is a process that every child must go through. As a parent, you should closely monitor your child's dental development so that your child can successfully go through the teething period and grow healthy and beautiful teeth.
(1) Pay attention to the changing teeth of children
As children grow older, the small deciduous teeth can no longer adapt to the growing jaws and increasing chewing power. The deciduous teeth begin to fall out physiologically from around the age of 6, and are replaced by permanent teeth around the age of 12. Due to the growth and development of the permanent tooth germ in the jaw and its movement towards the occlusal surface of the teeth, the root tissue of the deciduous teeth is absorbed, and the deciduous teeth gradually loosen and eventually fall out. The fallen deciduous teeth have no roots and have a nibbling surface. When a child’s deciduous teeth fall out, attention should be paid to observe them in order to distinguish them from broken deciduous teeth.
(2) Try to prevent children from being injured
Some parents find that their children’s new permanent teeth are loose, which makes them feel uneasy and doubtful. In fact, this is caused by the fact that the roots of newly erupted teeth have not yet been fully formed, the pulp chamber and apical foramen are large, and the cementum at the apex is very thin. If trauma or infection occurs during this period, the apex of the tooth root becomes inflamed and the apical foramen cannot be closed again, making treatment very troublesome.
The age at which children change their teeth is a time when they are active and active. It is easy for children to suffer maxillofacial trauma due to sudden collisions, falls and other accidents while running, playing, and playing. The upper front teeth are particularly vulnerable to damage. Therefore, during this period, parents should pay more attention to preventing their children from being injured.
(3) There is no need to worry about the gap between the front teeth
Some parents find that there is a gap between the two newly grown front teeth of their children, and some even have a figure-eight shape, and they are worried about their children. The front teeth are not growing well. In fact, there is a certain time and sequence for the eruption of permanent teeth. The upper central incisors (commonly known as incisors) erupt between the ages of 6 and 9, and the lateral incisors between the ages of 7 and 11. Therefore, between the ages of 7 and 11, a gap will appear between the child's two front teeth. As long as the lateral incisors erupt, the gap will disappear naturally. Occasionally, there may be supernumerary teeth between the two front teeth, causing a gap between the two front teeth. This can be confirmed by x-ray examination and then the supernumerary teeth can be extracted to close the gap.
(4) "Tiger teeth" cannot be removed
In the order of replacement of deciduous and permanent teeth, the eruption of the canines is later than the first pair of canines, because the canines erupt earlier than the first pair of canines. The alveolar bone in the dental area is occupied by other teeth and can only be protruded labially. Therefore, some children's canines often protrude labially to form "tiger teeth". Some parents think the tooth is ugly and ask the doctor to remove it. This is wrong. The canine tooth is the tooth with the longest and strongest root in the whole mouth. Its role in tearing food cannot be replaced by other teeth. If lost, it often makes the child unable to "gnaw sugar cane" and "eat ribs", which also affects Chewing power. If correction is needed, the doctor will also achieve the purpose of correction by extracting the first or second bicuspid teeth.
(5) Understand the "temporary malocclusion" period
Finally, it is worth mentioning that during the period of alternation between deciduous and permanent teeth, the arrangement of the teeth is often complicated and sometimes even messy. Unbearable, medically called temporary malocclusion. Some parents are very worried about this and ask doctors to provide correction as soon as possible. In fact, the human body's teeth have a potential tendency to be neatly arranged. When the deciduous and permanent teeth alternate, the tooth arrangement may adjust on its own. Before the deciduous and permanent teeth alternate, there is no need to rush for correction. You should observe and follow up. Some children's permanent teeth will grow slowly. Slowly arranged in order. Even if correction is needed, it should be done after the replacement of deciduous and permanent teeth is completed. Usually between the ages of 13 and 15, when the eruption of permanent teeth reaches a certain height, the production and wearing of orthodontics can be accurate and effective.
Children must prevent their deciduous teeth from falling out when they are changing their teeth.
Children begin to enter the tooth replacement stage when they are five or six years old. Generally speaking, the permanent teeth will be directly below the deciduous teeth. During the eruption process, the roots of the deciduous teeth will be absorbed. As a result, the deciduous teeth are like a big tree without roots. The roots become shorter and slowly shake until Until it falls out, the baby tooth will fall out on its own even if it is not extracted.
In the process of tooth replacement, some children will have deciduous teeth that have not yet fallen out, but permanent teeth have already grown in. Some parents think this is due to too much calcium. In fact, this situation is not related to too much calcium. It doesn't matter much. The main reason is that the deciduous teeth are arranged very densely, and the permanent teeth are larger. The original position of the deciduous teeth cannot accommodate the new teeth, so the new teeth cannot grow normally under the deciduous teeth. As a result, the roots of the deciduous teeth are not absorbed, and the old teeth do not fall out. , the situation where new teeth have grown in.
Dentists point out that when a child’s teeth change and new and old teeth coexist, the deciduous teeth should be extracted. After the deciduous teeth are extracted, the permanent teeth will slowly move to the original position of the deciduous teeth due to the pushing force of the tongue. At this time, if there is enough space, the permanent teeth can grow upright. If you ignore the juxtaposition of the old and new teeth, it may cause the teeth to be out of alignment or cause malocclusion. It may also lead to tooth decay due to incomplete tooth cleaning. Therefore, parents should pay special attention to the overlapping of old and new teeth during the teething period of their children and handle it correctly.
I wish your child health and happiness.