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Most parents want to look after their children’s teeth in the best way possible but often find the advice given confusing or difficult to follow. In this blog post we set out to explain in simple terms \u00a0the easiest way to look after children’s teeth, prevent future problems and keep visits to the dentist to the absolute minimum.<\/p>\n
Children have smaller\u00a0mouths\u00a0than adults, clearly and so need to have a smaller toothbrush. If you try to clean a child’s mouth with an adult’s brush you will find that you will be missing parts of their teeth, particularly right around the back teeth. Use a child’s toothbrush with\u00a0a pea sized amount of Children’s toothpaste. Children’s toothpaste has a reduced amount of fluoride compared to adults toothpaste, this ensures that your child does not receive too much fluoride.<\/p>\n
Brush your children’s teeth twice per\u00a0day. Up until the age of 7\u00a0we recommend brushing your children’s teeth for them and then supervising after this age. When you brush clean for 30 seconds in each quadrant, top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right ensuring that you clean the biting surface, tongue side and cheek side of your Children’s teeth.<\/p>\n
The whole process should take 2 min and this should be done twice per day.<\/p>\n
Sugar is so damaging because it feeds the acid excreting bacteria which cause dental decay. Limiting the amount of sugar your child eats will have a dramatic effect on tooth decay.<\/p>\n We would say that, wouldn’t we! But it’s true, your dentist is able to detect the early warning signs of gum disease<\/a> and dental decay before you will notice it at home. They can advise on your \u00a0child’s oral health care routine and let you know if there are areas that you are missing whilst you are cleaning. It’s extremely important to ensure \u00a0that your child’s over all dental health remains in good condition throughout their lives, and this starts from an early age.<\/p>\n Many people mistakenly believe that because children lose their teeth that they don’t need to worry about looking after them\u2026… they will get a new set after all. This is \u00a0a misconception, the habits that we form at an early age will continue into later life. If your children don’t have a good oral health care routine with their baby teeth, why would they change that routine and habit when they lose their baby teeth? The reality is that they won’t and those same bad habits will continue through to the adult teeth\u2026 \u00a0Which don’t get naturally replaced.<\/p>\n For further advice and information \u00a0please request an appointment <\/a>with our dental hygienist at our practice in Harrow, we’ll be happy \u00a0to answer any questions and give you advice on your own dental health care routine.<\/p>\n Images courtesy of \u00a0freedigitalphotos.net<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most parents want to look after their children’s teeth in the best way possible but often find the advice given confusing or difficult to follow. In this blog post we set out to explain in simple terms \u00a0the easiest way to look after children’s teeth, prevent future problems and keep visits to the dentist to … Continue reading How to Look After Children’s Teeth Properly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,18,22,39],"tags":[140,86],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-faqs","category-dentistry","category-questions-answers","category-oral-hygiene","category-share","tag-childrens-oral-health","tag-sugar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ID-10044145Ambro.\"](\"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-content\/uploads\/ID-10044145Ambro..jpg\")
Maintaining a healthy diet is important for overall body health \u00a0as well as dental health, but the two are linked. The simplest piece of advice, and probably the most important, is to watch the amount of sugar that your child has in their diet. It’s not just the added sugar (such as on cereal\u00a0in the morning) \u00a0it’s\u00a0the hidden sugar in so many \u00a0food items particularly\u00a0fizzy drinks<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0processed food. A good way to monitor this is to use the governments sugar smart app<\/a> which we have blogged about in the past.<\/p>\n3. Visit your dentist<\/h3>\n
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