2. Brush your teeth: When the baby has no teeth, parents can start cleaning the gums with clean wet gauze or handkerchief to familiarize the baby with the action of cleaning the mouth first. You can start cleaning your teeth in six or seven months. Wipe your teeth and gums with clean wet gauze or handkerchief. Especially after feeding and before going to bed, you must thoroughly clean up the food residue and milk dirt in your mouth. After the deciduous teeth erupt, you need to use a finger brush or a small toothbrush to help your baby clean his teeth.
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Bad habit of damaging teeth:
1. Tongue licking and tongue spitting: It mostly happens in children's tooth changing period. Children often lick loose deciduous teeth or new permanent teeth with their tongues, thus forming a bad habit of sticking out their tongues or sticking out their tongues. If you keep licking the upper and lower incisors with the tip of your tongue, it will lead to local opening and closing between the upper and lower teeth, and there will be gaps between the teeth. At the same time, the upper and lower jaws will move forward, resulting in bimaxillary protrusion deformity and opening and closing. If the front teeth are licked frequently, the mandible will move forward, forming the reverse of mandibular protrusion.
2. Children with unilateral chewing in the late stage of deciduous teeth development, due to deciduous teeth falling off, the normal chewing function of a tooth is affected, and it is easy to have unilateral chewing habits. Unilateral chewing will make the dental arch rotate to the chewing side, and the disused side will be underdeveloped, which will make the mandible deviate to the chewing side and lead to facial asymmetry. Moreover, because there is no food friction and scouring on the side that is not chewed often, it is not self-cleaning, and it is easier to accumulate tartar, which is prone to periodontal diseases such as dental caries and gum swelling and pain.
3, mouth breathing: normal breathing depends on the nose, but if the child suffers from rhinitis or adenoid hypertrophy, the nasal passage is not smooth, it will form the habit of mouth breathing. Long-term oral breathing, the child's tongue and jaw retreat, will lead to maxillary protrusion, narrow upper dental arch, uneven teeth. Appearance shows that the lips are open, the teeth are exposed, the upper lip is short and thick, and the upper front teeth are prominent.
4. Bite: Many children like to bite fingernails or clothes corners, cuffs, quilt corners and suck nipples. When occluding these objects, they are usually fixed in a certain part of the teeth, so it is easy to cause local gaps between the upper and lower teeth. After a long time, it is easy to form a small opening and closing deformity of teeth.
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