How should children's dental health be maintained?

The health of teeth will affect a person's beauty, so protecting teeth should start from an early age. How should children's dental health be maintained? Let's have a look.

Brush your teeth every day

Once the teeth grow out, parents should brush their children's teeth every day and use fluoride toothpaste twice a day. The dosage of toothpaste is the size of rice grains within 3 years old, and it should be the size of peas when 3 years old. Parents should help and guide their children to brush their teeth every day before they learn to brush their teeth skillfully (usually around 8 years old).

Good sleep plan

Establish a good sleep program: brush your teeth, listen to stories, sleep, brush your teeth before going to bed, stop eating, and don't let your child sleep with a bottle.

Gradually quit the bottle.

In order to avoid dental caries in bottles, 1 year-old should gradually quit bottles.

Eat less sugary food.

Eat less sugary foods, encourage children to drink only white water instead of carbonated and sugary drinks, and limit the consumption of 100% pure fruit juice. It is recommended not to exceed 1 10 ~ 170 ml every day.

Parents demonstrate oral hygiene.

Parents should demonstrate oral hygiene, and don't give their children food that has been eaten from their mouths, especially parents with dental problems, because Streptococcus mutans in adults' mouths will be passed on to their children in this way, thus increasing their risk of dental caries.

Go to the dentist regularly.

Take the children to the dentist regularly, apply fluoride, close the pit and fissure, protect the teeth and deal with the problems in time.