The process of changing dairy teeth in children is individual, but basically fits within 6 to 14 years. Despite the fact that this process is natural, it requires monitoring by parents and specialists. If suddenly a child has problems with the appearance of molars, it is easiest to prevent their consequences in the early stages. About the stages of teething in children and problems that parents may have to face and will be discussed further.
What kind of baby teeth do you have?
Milk teeth in children appear in the period from several months to three years. At the beginning of the third year of life, the children should normally have 20 milk teeth, ten on the upper and lower jaws.
Milk teeth are less tuberous than permanent teeth, their roots are much wider, since under them are the rudiments of molars.
What teeth fall out in children?
All baby teeth in children are replaced by indigenous teeth . The process itself is most often painless. If the appearance of new teeth in a child is accompanied by pain, it can be helped by purchasing a special paste, for example, dentol, or giving it an anesthetic. Before taking these drugs, you should show the dentist that he checked to see if the eruption process is accompanied by inflammation and recommended the drug that best suits your child.
The loss of infant teeth in children begins when the embedded molars come closer to the mouth. The baby teeth begin to stagger and usually fall off painlessly.
The order of teeth in children
The loss of milk and the exit of molars usually proceeds in the same order as in infants. At first, the middle incisors fall out and cut through, lateral ones, then the fangs, the first and second molars, instead of which small and large molars appear. Usually at the age of fourteen the number of molars in children is 28. There may be 32 of them, but more often than not the last four, the so-called wisdom teeth, grow at the age of 20 years. Some people do not have wisdom teeth at all.
Oral care during the eruption of molars
Since periodically during the prolapse and eruption of new teeth, there are tissue ruptures, children need to carefully monitor the oral cavity.
Teeth must be cleaned twice a day. After each meal, the baby should be rinsed. Special rinsers can be purchased, and you can also constantly prepare herbal tea. Such measures will help reduce the risk of getting infections in the resulting wounds and reduce the pain, if any.
If the baby's teeth are affected by caries, it is necessary to treat them, since the same underlying teeth will be affected by the appearing molars.
Currently, for children, a procedure is available to cover only the incised molars with a special paste. This paste protects even a thin enamel from caries. The procedure is called fissure sealing and if the child still does not clean up the mouth properly from food debris, it can become an excellent preventive measure for this disease.
If the teeth grow crooked, delay with a visit to the doctor, while waiting for everything to appear, it is not worth it. It is often easier to correct the wrong arrangement of the teeth at once.
In the case when the molar tooth has not appeared within 3 to 4 months after the dairy has appeared, it is necessary to find out the cause. It can be a disease, for example, rickets. In rare cases, there is no rudiment of a permanent tooth. If the roentgenogram confirms this, the child will have to do prosthetics.