Personally, I think.
First, a healthy and complete deciduous dentition is the basis for the health of permanent teeth.
A complete and healthy deciduous dentition can play a normal chewing function, ensure the normal growth and development of permanent teeth and maxillofacial bones, help children pronounce correctly, guide the normal eruption of permanent teeth, and let children get healthy and use permanent teeth for life.
Second, encourage children to eat more fibrous food and enhance chewing function.
A healthy diet structure and good eating habits are the basis of oral health and overall health, and developing good eating habits will benefit children for life. Children should pay attention to a balanced diet, not picky eaters, especially foods with high fiber content and rich nutrition, such as vegetables and fresh fruits. In this way, it is not only beneficial to the self-cleaning function of teeth, but also beneficial to the growth and development of oral and maxillofacial region, promoting the orderly arrangement of teeth and enhancing the chewing function.
Third, don't eat before going to bed after brushing your teeth.
Because people have less oral movement and less saliva secretion during sleep, the self-cleaning effect of the mouth is poor, and eating before going to bed after brushing their teeth is prone to dental caries and gingivitis. In addition, children should develop the habit of eating regularly, and eat as little snacks as possible except for three meals a day. If you often eat snacks, you can add snacks between meals.
Fourth, children learn to brush their teeth, and parents should help and supervise.
At the age of 3-4, children's hands-on ability and coordination ability of limbs are obviously enhanced. Parents can start teaching their children to brush their teeth through the simplest "circle drawing method". The key point is to put the bristles on the tooth surface, gently press and bend the bristles, and draw circles on the tooth surface for more than 5 times. The toothbrush should be placed vertically on the lingual side of the front teeth, and all surfaces of the teeth (including lips, cheeks, tongue and occlusal surfaces) should be brushed. In addition, parents should help their children brush their teeth/kloc-0 times a day (preferably at night) until their children go to primary school, so as to ensure the effect of brushing their teeth.
Fifth, help children get rid of bad oral habits as soon as possible.
Children's bad oral habits include sucking their fingers, biting their lower lips, sticking out their tongues and breathing through their mouths. We should give up as soon as possible, otherwise it will cause oral and maxillofacial deformities such as maxillary protrusion, dental arch stenosis and crowded dentition. If children over 3 years old still exist
If the above-mentioned bad habits cannot be cured after persuasion, they should be hospitalized in time and help them get rid of bad habits through appropriate correction methods. For children with oral breathing habits, it is necessary to check whether the upper respiratory tract is unobstructed, treat tonsillar enlargement, adenoid hypertrophy, turbinate hypertrophy and other diseases, and correct oral breathing in time.
Six, advocate preschool children to receive an oral health examination every six months.
3~6 years old is the peak period of children's dental caries. At this stage, the dental arch began to change, and gaps appeared between teeth, which prepared for tooth replacement, but it was easy to cause food impaction and adjacent caries. Early treatment of dental caries has the advantages of short time, little pain, good effect and low cost. Therefore, it is suggested that preschool children receive oral health examination once every six months. Doctors should provide targeted professional oral health guidance while conducting oral health examination for children, so as to enhance parents' and children's oral health awareness.
Seven, early correction of anterior teeth "grinding" (anterior teeth occlusion) deformity.
Congenital factors such as maxillary hypoplasia and heredity are the causes of anterior crossbite, and bad feeding posture and children's bad living habits can also cause anterior crossbite. Anterior malocclusion can limit the development of maxilla, lead to excessive protrusion of mandible, and cause depression in the middle of face, which obviously affects the face. Early correction can correct or alleviate facial changes and achieve relatively good therapeutic effects. The best time to correct malocclusion of anterior deciduous teeth is 3~4 years old.
Eight, local use of fluoride to prevent deciduous tooth caries.
Fluorine toothpaste has a positive effect on preventing dental caries. Preschool children usually gargle and spit out foreign bodies in their mouths. Children can brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste, but the dosage is pea-sized. It should be applied under the supervision and guidance of parents or teachers to prevent accidental swallowing. Don't use adult toothpaste for children. Our annual fluoride foam oral care also reflects the need to prevent and treat dental caries (but the routine treatment should be once every quarter and four times a year).
Nine, deciduous tooth caries should be treated in time.
Dental caries affect children's oral and general health. The initial manifestation of dental caries is local discoloration of the teeth, usually black, and sometimes chalky changes appear in the upper teeth, and then the hard tissue on the tooth surface falls off to form cavities until the teeth completely disintegrate and fall off. Dental caries can cause toothache, swelling of gums and face, and even cause systemic symptoms such as high fever in children. Long-term untreated dental caries can lead to unilateral chewing and asymmetric facial development in children; It will also affect the normal development and eruption of permanent teeth. If there are no healthy teeth, children are unwilling to eat fiber-rich vegetables and meat, resulting in bad eating habits such as partial eclipse and affecting the normal growth and development of the whole body. Therefore, the view that "deciduous teeth always need to be changed, and they need not be treated if they are broken" is wrong.
Ten, timely treatment of deciduous teeth trauma.
Trauma of deciduous teeth mostly occurs in children after 2 years old, mostly front teeth, usually caused by falling. Trauma may lead to tooth loosening, breaking or falling off. Trauma of deciduous teeth may affect the development and normal eruption of permanent teeth in the future, so you should go to a medical institution in time.