Do children need fluoride toothpaste? It is reported that there are about 1.5 million children in China every year, and most of them have serious dental caries. Among them, the caries rate of 5-year-old children's deciduous teeth is 66%. The survey of parents shows that only 49% parents know about fluoride toothpaste, and only 9% parents can help their children brush their teeth every day. Compared with adults, children are more prone to dental caries. This is because children prefer sweets and snacks, and children's teeth are not as hard as adults, so even with the same diet, deciduous teeth are more vulnerable to bacterial damage. Once the caries of deciduous teeth get worse, it will not only cause pain, but also affect children's eating, digestion and beauty. If you have to pull it out, it is more likely to affect the eruption of permanent teeth, facial development and pronunciation, and the arrangement of complete teeth, which will bring a series of adverse consequences. Therefore, you must not pay attention to deciduous teeth just because you think they are temporary.
The use of fluoride toothpaste should be divided into different regions, and the fluoride content in drinking water in different regions is different, which has different effects on dental health. Most areas in Guangxi belong to low fluorine areas, and the internationally recommended fluorine content in drinking water should be 1ppm, while the fluorine content in drinking water in Nanning is only 0.2ppm, so the fluorine content in children in Nanning is much lower than that in other areas, and the fluorine in fluoride toothpaste is fluoride. Because it can form a component in tooth enamel, it increases the resistance of teeth to acid, makes enamel not easy to be eroded, and has obvious preventive effect.
How to do if the baby's teeth are short of fluoride? Fluoride is one of the essential chemical elements for human body. According to the Oral Health Guide for China Residents issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission in 2009, proper fluoride intake can reduce the solubility of teeth, promote the remineralization of teeth, inhibit the growth of oral microorganisms and prevent dental caries.
However, excessive intake of fluoride also has side effects. For example, excessive fluoride intake by young children in the process of growth and development can form white or yellowish brown spots on the tooth surface-that is, dental fluorosis.
Although two-thirds of fluoride in human body comes from food, 1/3 comes from drinking water. However, fluoride in food is not easily absorbed by human body because of its complex composition, while most of fluoride in drinking water can be absorbed by human body, so endemic fluorosis is directly related to drinking water.
Eat more fluorine-containing foods. Foods containing more fluorine include beef bones, tea, seafood, fish, shellfish, seabuckthorn fruit, coarse grains, spinach and potatoes.