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How to take care of child teeth?
05-09-2009
When should you start to take care of the oral cavity of the child?
Oral care of the child should begin immediately after birth. Despite the fact that in the oral cavity newborn are no teeth, food debris can accumulate in the mouth, stimulating growth and multiplication of bacteria that can cause disease in the oral mucosa of the child. To prevent this, after each feeding gently wipe baby's gums with a soft damp cloth or gauze pad.
When to start and how to brush your teeth?
Clean your child's teeth should begin as soon as they erupted in the oral cavity. First, before the age of two, for cleaning children's teeth need to use only special children's toothbrush with a small size of the working part of which is soft, with rounded tips of the bristles. Handles in such toothbrushes that are typically large, so that parents and child, and it was easier to manipulate during tooth brushing your baby.
With two to four years can be used for hygiene or the recommended Dental Association of Russia a special children's toothpaste or gel (BLEND-A-MED BLENDY), which has a pleasant taste and design and really like children. Number of toothpaste should not exceed the size of a pea. This is due to the fact that in an age when tooth brushing, children can swallow the toothpaste.
Parents, remember! You are responsible for the state of oral health of the child before the age of 10! While brushing your teeth Make sure that your baby does not swallow the toothpaste!
How to brush your teeth a child?
To remove plaque in infants, dentists and hygienists recommend parents to use simple, gentle, short strokes from the gums to the cutting edge.
In children older than is already possible to use standard methods of cleaning teeth.
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