How to protect your baby's first teeth?

Baby teeth grows out between six months and two years after birth, and are replaced with permanent teeth by around 12 years old. Healthy baby teeth enable children to have a sweet smile, good pronunciation, and maintain their physical and mental health. Looking after their first teeth （baby teeth） helps make sure their adult teeth come through healthy and strong. Parents need to understand that Children's baby teeth need to be well protected.

So how do you protect your baby's teeth? Here are a few suggestions:

1) Develop good oral cleaning habits

0-6 months: You can feed warm water to clean their mouth, and gently scrub the baby's mouth with wet gauze after eating.

6-12 months: Babies at this age usually have four front teeth on each side. The eruption of teeth maybe accompanied by slight redness and swelling of the gums, and the baby may feel uncomfortable and crying. At this time, you can give the baby to bite somenon-toxic rubber molar toys to massage the baby's gums,it can promote the eruption of teeth. At night, you can use a finger toothbrush to gently brush the baby's teeth.

12-36 months: Baby teeth are usually full by the age of two and a half years old. Help your children brush twice a day.

3 years old and older: Start to Use the fluoride toothpaste.Teach your kids how to brush their own teeth twice a day for 2 minutes with a pea-size amount of fluoride toothpaste. Teach your childre to spit the toothpaste out.

10 years and older: They usually can brush and floss on their own. Help them remember to brush twice a day for 2 minutes each time and floss once a day.

Tips:

Brush At Least Twice a Day

Brushing too often wears away tooth enamel and irritates the gums, making them more prone to infection and inflammation.

Adopt Up-and-down Circular Strokes

It is important to make sure your kids adopt up-and-down circular strokes on the tooth and gumline.

The 2 Minute Rule

You can also use a timer to count down a 2-minute brushing.

Start Flossing Your Kids’ Teeth

Start flossing your kids' teeth at the age of 4, and teach them the proper methods for flossing.

2) Choose healthy foods and drinks

To protect your baby’s teeth, choose healthy foods and drinks. Sweet drinks, fruit juices can cause tooth decay. They can also cause your baby to develop a taste for sweet foods.So for drinks milk and water are the best. Only these should be in babies' bottles or sipper cups.Give fewer candies and desserts to them and choose low-sugar foods. Eat more fresh vegetables, fruits and foods high in protein.

(3) Regularly go tothe dental hospital for examination

Take your baby to the dentist as soon as the first tooth appears. Developing a habit ofregular check-ups can also reduce your baby's fear of dentistry. At the same time, an oral examination is carried out half a year, which can find and treat oral hazards in time, so that small problems can be solved in time so that they will not continue to develop.