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To take care of his teeth since the youngest age permits to avoid the apparition of precocious caries. Who does your child have his first teeth of milk push and don't you know how to make to maintain them? Doctissimo sums up the good gestures to adopt.

Contrary to the received ideas, the caries that tackle the teeth of milk carry prejudice underneath to the teeth. Indeed, these last prepare the site of the definitive teeth. It is also since the youngest age that it is important to give good habits of bucco-dental hygiene to your child. Let's see, stage by stage, the needs of quite the small to have healthy quenottes and for a long time!

..Of 0 to 3 years: a hygiene accompanied by the parents

The bucco-dental hygiene begins since the first months of life: the dental plate accumulates since the exit of the milk teeth. Also, it is necessary to preoccupy itself early of it therefore. For baby, the association Dental French counsels to use a compress moistened of physiological liquid. Don't especially take toothpaste that could be ingested by the child.

Since 1 year and half, the child adores to imitate dad or mom then, brush yourselves the teeth with him and benefit some to show him the best way to make. Take yourselves even the brush at the end of washing in order to not to forget any zones. Side equipment, choose a pronged brush adapted to the size of the mouth, with very flexible hairs, and a short and large handle. They often have the stamp "baby."

Don't use a toothpaste before the child acquired a good method of brushing. Then, prefer a dough special children containing a weak concentration of fluorine. Although he/it is known for his role in the protection against the caries, this one can, ingested in too big quantity, to provoke a fluorose to the adult age. This surdosage is characterized by a yellow coloration of the teeth and an attack of the enamel: an impact rather negative on the smile. The food bringing a non negligible quantity of fluorine, it is not necessarily advisable in to add at the time of the brushing. The quantity of optimal toothpaste to use must be the size of a pea. The children must really rinse themselves the mouth and the recracher not to absorb some. Only one time per day is sufficient, before lying down.

Finally, program him a first consultation to 3 years: it could prevent him later from knowing the dentist's famous fear!

..4 to 6 years: the period of the training

The child begins to brush the teeth only and after every meal. Show to him how well to hold the brush and stay up to what the set of his quenottes is cleaned. The union French for the Bucco-Dental Health recommends a particular technique. She consists in brushing the four "quarters" of the mouth successively, while making coming and going of the incisors toward the molars. Here, it is necessary to make sure to what the child doesn't irritate her gums. For it, the best solution is to position the brush "astride the teeth", what limits the contact of hairs with the gum.

For the toothbrush, choose a small brush adapted to the size of the mouth and the hands of your small. Often stamped "children", a multitude exists: colorful or to the effigy of his favorite hero, you will find the one that invites him well.

The used toothpaste must not contain a too big concentration of fluorine. The French agency of sanitary security of the health products (Afssaps) recommends before 6 years not to take doughs passing the 45 mg of fluorine for 100 g. Many toothpastes with adapted tastes are on the market so that the brushing always more pleasant.

..6 to 8 years: toward an adult brushing

From six years, your child begins to acquire his definitive teeth: it is necessary to increase therefore in vigilance for not that the caries develop themselves. The ufsbd considers this period like a transition toward a based brushing method on the rotation. It is necessary to start with the teeth of the bottom, for which the child makes movements of coming and going. Then, one passes to the front teeth, while doing a movement of bottom in top. Finally, finish by the rear of the teeth, while making him hold the handle in height. Always follow the code "of the pink toward the white."

The used toothbrush must be always to flexible hairs. Side toothpaste, you can buy a containing dough of the concentrations a little stronger in fluorine: the Afssaps approves the use of toothpastes of contents superior to 150 mg for 100 g.

..9 years and more: the brushing becomes adult

To 9 years, your child becomes big: it is necessary to adopt a brushing therefore consequently. Teach him the manner of which he will use his brush all along his life. Very sure, the brushing must be achieved independently on the lower and superior jaw. The child must adopt a movement of roller of the low upwards, while including the gum. The brush must be inclined to 45° to the basis of the tooth not to irritate the gum and all the same to brush the deposits that accumulate themselves of it. There again, choose a brush adapted to his morphology, always flexible.

If your child's teeth has need to be reinforced, the dentist will be able to prescribe him baths of mouth fluorés. In any case, it is necessary to know how to preserve your child's dental capital. It is to this price that you will avoid him a lot of worries to the adult age .

2008-12-14