DENTAL CARE

Keeping Your Child's Teeth Healthy By Little Pearls Pediatric Dentistry Oral hygiene is crucial for your child’s health. There is a lot you can do care for your child’s teeth and gums from an early age, including monitoring their diet and cleaning their teeth. You should also establish brushing and flossing habits, so your child knows how to care for their teeth. Keep reading to learn more about keeping your child’s teeth healthy.  Keep an eye out for baby teeth Baby teeth start to appear when your child is around six months old. Usually the first teeth to break through the gums will be the front bottom teeth, and they will continue to come in until your child is about three years old. Children typically have ten teeth on the top and ten on the bottom.  Clean their gums It is important to start cleaning your child’s teeth before they even break through their gums. ...

WHAT ARE MILK TEETH? The fact is that a normal and healthy infant has about twenty milk teeth as a part of his/her primary dentition below the gum pads within the dental arch but after birth an infant usually has no teeth seen in the oral cavity.When the child reaches about five years of age these milk teeth start exfoliating to allow the eruption of the permanent teeth.These teeth that loosen and shed are also called deciduous teeth for the same reason.The exfoliation of milk teeth continues till the age of eleven to twelve thus they form an important part of the child's functional apparatus till this age. CARE & IMPORTANCE Even though they are temporary , milk teeth require greater care as they are more prone to caries & decay leading to their early destruction.Using feeding bottles without a physiologic nipple leading to sucking instead of suckling is the main cause as the anterior teeth are exposed to the sugars such as lactose present in milk for a long durat...