Importance of Child Oral Care & Habits

Importance of Child Oral Care & Habits

With my experience as a Dentist is, maximum people are not taking care of Milk tooth or Deciduous tooth or primary tooth, they take cares to permanent tooth. They thing if anything happen to milk tooth nothing will happen, but i will say you should take of your milk tooth also.

Why You should take care Milk Tooth?

Milk teeth shows the path of eruption of permanent teeth. So if the milk teeth will extract before, then at the time of permanent tooth eruption it can erupt in wrong place. Take care of your milk tooth to prevent from caries. Any infection from tooth can cause other several problem. So oral care is needed. 

Trauma to tooth or jaw: Any trauma in primary tooth can injury to developing permanent tooth bud, it can cause missing of that permanent tooth. Any big infection like cyst,tumor can also cause missing tooth. fracture of jaw can cause improper dental development. Injury to TMJ can cause Ankylosis, facial asymmetry, grown interruption of jaw.

Oral Bad habit: Oral bad habit like Thumb sucking, mouth breathing,tongue thrusting, lip & nail biting etc. can cause Orthodontic problem. 

Thumb Sucking: Children who suck their thumbs for long time(Age after of 3years) run the risk of misalignment their new adult teeth. Upper teeth flare out, front tooth open bite, lower teeth and lip turn inwards then orthodontic treatment is needed in future. To stop thumb sucking habit breaking appliance you can use.

Thumb sucking 

Nail Biting & Lip biting: Nail biting can lead to fractures and chipping of front teeth. It is a bad habit that can begin at a young age. Stop this habit. Lip biting can causes increased front tooth space-overjet (malocclusion in front tooth).

Mouth Breathing: If anyone is having mouth breathing habit it can cause change in facial development, it's leads to malocclusion, tooth crowding & facial profile can be changed. Its also can causes gum problem. Its can also effect other general health also.

Conclusion: So if you want good permanent tooth then take care of Child tooth & make a good habit to stay healthy.