Children prefer to eating sweets, and parents do not pay much attention to daily habits that like brushing and mouthwash of the children,so children on age four or five often have tooth discoloration, turning black or yellow. Children's teeth are in the developmental stage, so many mothers worry that whether the discolored teeth have an impact on Children's growth and development. Are immature teeth more susceptible to corrosion? Do children need scaling ? For these questions, experts and physicians in the meigeer dental would give us detailed answers.
Scaling - regardless of age
According to doctor Hou, there are a lot of bacteria in our oral cavity, mixed with metabolites and some ingredients of saliva. Bacteria accumulate and adhesion to dental surface, then form plaque. Nourished by sweets, bacteria in plaque are able to change sweets to acid. Our teeth are very hard, but easily susceptible to acid erosion to demineralization. Over time, teeth cavities happen. As an oral basic treatment, periodic cleaning can remove the dental calculus and plaque from the surface of teeth. In theory, scaling has no age limit, but the need for scaling should be checked by doctors, according to dental condition.
Children scaling - "a gentle experience"
The most common attachments on children's tooth surface are soft dirt and pigment, rarely dental calculus. It is worth noting that the soft dirt that composed of plaque, food debris and other components and pigment just are critical factors of discoloration of the teeth. Weak resistance against erosion makes neonatal or dysplastic tooth more vulnerable to caries. Almost half of children under the age of 12 are suffering from dental caries. Wrong daily brushing force and methods and weak health care consciousness are the important factors that leading to dental caries happening on them. Children scaling is the thorough cleaning for children's teeth. Therefore, it is particularly important for parents to bring children to the dentist regularly, and make a series of choices regarding dental cleaning, dental filling or other treatments according to the situation of teeth.
It should be noted that adult scaling is divided into three steps-scaling, polishing and sandblasting. Different from adults, however, a gentle cleaning will be provided to children with little or no dental calculus. To remove debris and pigment from children's teeth, the doctor will use a soft rubber cup with fruit-flavored polishing paste that children like to clean and polish teeth, and finally achieve the purpose of dental protection. However, only for the children with lots of calculus, the doctor will provide ultrasonic scaling.
Dental health - prevention is better than cure
Reminded by doctor Hou , prevention is better than cure for children's dental health. In addition to cultivating children’s correct habits of living, parents should bring the child to see the dentist regularly since his or her first deciduous tooth eruption. During cleaning the teeth, the doctor will conduct a detailed examination of each tooth for the children and find tooth problems that have occurred or potential pitfalls early,so as to provide early prevention and treatment.
