Tips for parents how to keep children’s teeth healthy

You should start brushing your teeth immediately after the baby's first milk tooth erupts.
Also, with the appearance of the first tooth in your babies, the first visit to the children's dentist should take place. This technique is very important to establish hygiene and teach parents how to properly care for their child's teeth. The doctor advises on individual oral hygiene, the correct choice of toothbrush and paste and tells about the process of cleaning milk teeth.
In the future, visits to the children's dentist should take place every six months!

A proper diet for children is important.
Exclude from the diet caramel and other candies that «stick» to the teeth, or candies that are in the child's oral cavity for a long time (such as Chupa-Chups, Skittles, etc.) and provoke the reproduction of microorganisms, which in turn contribute to caries development. If you want to pamper your children sometimes, give preference to chocolates. In small amounts, chocolate (not caramel) is good.
Limit the use of sweet drinks (compotes with sugar, store juices, sweet teas, etc.). Replace them with plain water or fresh home-made juices without adding sugar.

To improve the development of the growth of the jaws after the eruption of all milk teeth, increase the amount of consumption of solid foods: apple, carrot, nuts, etc.

Brush children's teeth twice a day. And remember that parents should help children brush their teeth up to about 9 years old!
After the first milk tooth has erupted, children should perform home dental hygiene to form the habit of brushing their teeth, and also conduct an examination once every 3 months at a dentist to check the correct eruption of milk teeth and conduct minimal professional hygiene at a children's dentist.

Also, professional hygiene is an excellent method of adapting a child to a dentist! A small patient should trust the doctor and not feel any discomfort, become his friend.

In addition to the prevention of caries and its complications, it is important to observe the correct growth of jaws and teeth. Therefore, at the age of 5-6, it is necessary to visit a children's dentist and check the child's bite.

Another important point is the timely prevention of caries on permanent teeth. From the age of 5, the first permanent teeth appear in a child. They do not have milk precursors and it is important not to miss the moment of their eruption, they are vulnerable to the rapid development of caries in case of non-observance of thorough home hygiene, because in permanent teeth there are many fissures and recesses on the chewing surface where plaque quickly accumulates, which contributes to the development of caries, so it should be carried out prevention of caries in such teeth with the help of thorough home and professional hygiene, as well as with the method of sealing fissures.

Remember: the best prevention of tooth decay is regular dental checkups and oral hygiene!