What should I do if my child's baby teeth are broken?

For children, if they do not pay attention to oral hygiene and often eat sweets, it is likely to cause tooth decay and cavities. If the deciduous teeth are more serious, they should be treated promptly and there are many treatment methods. For example, if a cavity occurs, it should be filled. If the situation is more serious, such as only the tooth root is left, the bad tooth should be extracted as soon as possible.

Deciduous teeth also have dental caries and should be treated in time

If the deciduous teeth are lost prematurely due to caries, it will not only affect the eruption of permanent teeth as scheduled, but will also cause disordered arrangement of permanent teeth and cause jaw deformity. Therefore, dental caries should be treated early if discovered.

If your child's deciduous teeth have cavities, you should actively go to the hospital for treatment, and the sooner the better. If the cavity is shallow and small, it can be filled once. Otherwise, the caries cavity will grow from small to large, from shallow to deep, and then invade the dental nerve, causing unbearable pain, making the child unable to eat and sleep well, directly affecting the child's learning and physical and mental health. In addition, untreated dental caries may continue to develop and even be combined with local infection, causing facial swelling, fever, swollen lymph nodes, etc., resulting in adverse consequences.

Sometimes children have severe tooth decay, with only the tooth root left and repeated redness, swelling and inflammation. In this case, the only option is to extract the bad tooth. If deciduous teeth are lost prematurely, firstly, the normal development of permanent teeth will be affected. Secondly, the adjacent teeth will tilt towards the gap of the missing teeth, affecting the eruption of permanent teeth and causing occlusion malocclusion. In addition, if a child has holes in his teeth and chews on one side for a long time, it will affect the child's jaw development and even cause asymmetry in the face, affecting the child's facial appearance.

How to effectively prevent caries in deciduous teeth?

1. Choose a health toothbrush suitable for children's age and replace it every 3 months. 2. Breastfeeding and use of bottles correctly. Do not let the baby sleep with the bottle in his mouth. If the baby sleeps with a pacifier in his mouth, he cannot clean his mouth, which will cause the bacteria that corrode the teeth to multiply in the mouth. Over time, the teeth will decalcify and the crowns will peel off, forming black root residues or tooth residues, which will cause "bottle caries". 3. After the baby's first tooth comes out, you should brush his teeth with fluoride toothpaste. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all babies should brush their teeth twice a day with a small amount of fluoride toothpaste once teeth appear. For babies under 3 years old, use a very thin layer of fluoride toothpaste, covering about half of a children's soft toothbrush; when they are 3 years old, you can use a soybean-sized amount of fluoride toothpaste; for children over 3 years old, the amount used is slightly larger than a soybean. After brushing teeth, do not rinse the mouth of infants and young children to avoid accidental swallowing of fluoride. At the same time, allow these very small amounts of fluoride to continue to act on the teeth to fully play the tooth protection role.