Children can never have too many sweets and be cavity-free. Nowadays, almost every child faces dental problems and tooth cavities, and the leading cause is poor oral hygiene. Incorporating oral hygiene habits is always challenging, but being done regularly will ensure the good oral health of your family.
Children need to be brushed once their teeth start to erupt. The eruption is when the tooth begins to grow out of the gums and starts showings, usually around six months of age, children will have all 20 of their baby teeth usually by the age of 2 and 1⁄2 to 3 years. How one should brush using appropriate techniques. The correct way is to brush at a 45-degree angle in a circular motion covering the front, top and back teeth and the gum line. The gum line is where all the plaque is held. It's essential to be able to pay extra close attention to each one of these places.
Typically kids will brush their teeth for around two minutes or less, and brushing can become a challenging task, so another way to pass the time during these two minutes is by singing songs. For those that are at their youngest ages and have just begun to have
their first practices for brushing, it might be helpful to sing songs. Some of the ones are ABCD, Twinkle twinkle or Baby shark. Make sure your child brushes twice a day daily. Various mobile applications keep track of how long your child has been brushing.
Some things related to brushing are what kind of toothpaste and what quantity to use. We recommend that children at an early age of teeth brushing using a smear of toothpaste on their toothbrush. A spot is just a thin layer that can cover just a tiny part of the toothbrush surface. In the future, as your kid grows older, typically, the amount of toothpaste to use grows up to frozen pea size.
Later, when your child finishes with the brush, it is okay to spit it out, but remember not to rinse the mouth with water after as there is a very important mineral and vitamin inside the toothpaste called Fluoride.
Flossing is the action of using dental tape to be able to remove any debris called plaque that is stuck in between teeth.
Dental floss should be used correctly for gums and teeth safety. One of the first things to discuss is how much floss to use. Typically you should use about arm's length. Depending on how much floss is available, you can use as little as or more if you are comfortable.
Here are some tips on flossing: Firstly, wrap the ends of the floss around your ring fingers, so you have a good grip and ability to hold onto it with just your forefinger and thumb comfortably without cutting off the blood supply of your fingers.
The first thing to do is push the floss in between the teeth, you will usually hear a snap sound, and it's a good thing because now you know that both of your teeth are touching each other.
As the floss goes down towards the gum line, you will then be able to feel it go into the actual gums. You will then be making the C-shape with the floss. Now go back-and-forth and up-and-down to both sides of the teeth in front of the floss and the ones behind it. Keep repeating the process with different sections of the floss with all your teeth one by one.
Dental floss comes in a variety of packages. Some of them are called a dental tape or dental floss. They are relatively used the same way. Sometimes it says Fluoride in it, and other times it doesn't. Both of these are healthy.
Flossing is recommended for those individuals that have their teeth touching each other. Often when a child is under the age of 3, when they have all 20 of their new teeth just coming in, many won't touch each other. While it is essential to be taking
care of these teeth, flossing may not be necessary until there is actual contact between teeth.
That being said, when there is contact between teeth, flossing involves quite a bit of technique, which is why it is vital to have the ability to talk to a dental professional such as a Dentist, Assistant or even a Hygienist. To be to take guidance if you might have any problems regarding flossing.
Some commercial products are called floss-aid, which might be able to help anyone who has difficulty holding onto the floss and being able to use it appropriately on their teeth. It is crucial to find the right flossing techniques that work for you.
Many children from young ages will often need something to help their teeth grow in the right direction. These are called braces or retainers, which can help push teeth and grow in different directions of forwarding, backward or side to side.
Having braces, particularly, sometimes becomes challenging to help keep those teeth clean, which is why we want to pay extra careful attention to brushing and flossing when we have something that is stuck to the teeth, like the brace.
Plague is the bacteria that get stuck to our teeth, which can sometimes cause cavities or give us bad breath. It is a little bit more difficult to clean when one has braces. This is why we could use different things to help with flossing techniques called the floss aid or a small brush that can be given by an Orthodontist, which is a smaller version of a toothbrush to go in between the brackets and wires.
It is also critically important to be able to go to a Dentist, Orthodontist, Pediatric Dentist or Hygienist to have a cleaning more frequently when you have braces implants from every four months to every six months. Make sure to visit us at iSmile Dental in Langley, one spot for all your dental assistance.
We hope that you found the information and materials presenting oral hygiene useful. We understand that every child is different, but it is imperative to have some shared understanding around some of the pervasive things we know will help protect your oral health and those of your children.
