Healthy teeth is important. As a parent, it’s your responsibility to ensure your child gets proper dental care as early as possible. This way, cavities and other dental problems can be avoided. It’s also going to be less costly on you too. Don’t neglect your child’s dental health, otherwise you can expect huge dental bills when your child’s dental problems have become too serious.
Get a Head Start
As soon as your start turns two, start his regular visits to the dentist. Start with a pediatric dentist, a dentist who is trained to handle young children’s dental needs. Pediatric dentists have dental equipment that are just the right size for small children, and they often have items in their offices (e.g., crayons, stickers, coloring books) that serve to distract young children as their teeth are being examined. If your child isn’t quite two years old yet, you can start taking care of his teeth yourself. If your child doesn’t have teeth yet, you can clean his gums using a soft cloth. If you see two teeth touching each other, you can start brushing your child’s teeth using toothbrush with very soft bristles. Don’t use toothpaste that has fluoride in it, though. There are specially formulated toothpastes for toddlers available so use those. Make sure you only use a tiny amount of toothpaste in every brushing.
When you’re putting your child to sleep at night, don’t give him a bottle of milk to suck on all night. Frequent (and needless) sucking can cause buck teeth. Furthermore, your child’s mouth becomes a fertile breeding ground for cavity-causing bacteria if you leave him with a bottle of milk all night. It won’t be long until your child experiences tooth aches.
Regular Trips to the Dentist
Your child learns by association so if you begin taking your child to the dentist early on when he doesn’t have any dental problems yet, he won’t fear going to the dentist as he grows older. If, however, your child’s first visit to the dentist is to have his teeth pulled or have some sort of uncomfortable or painful dental procedure done on him, you can be sure that he will associate future dental trips with pain and even worse, he may never want to go back to the dentist again.
Watch What Your Child Eats and Drinks
Everybody knows that candy is bad for the teeth. Recent studies suggest that many dental problems are caused not by how much candy you eat but by how often you eat them. For example, it’s actually much better if you let your child eat as much candy as he wants at one time instead of having him eat one piece of candy each day. This doesn’t mean, though, that it’s OK for your child to eat a full bag of candies in one go. What’s more important is that you instill in your child the habit of brushing his teeth after he eats candies.
Then there are the juice drinks, which have been found to cause a lot of dental problems. While juice drinks are preferable to sodas, make sure that your child does not drink more than 6 ounces of 100% fruit juice each day. If your child is still bottle fed, avoid giving him juice in a bottle. You can teach him to drink his juice from a cup or to use a straw.
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