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Dental care for children with congenital heart disease
Healthy teeth are important for all children, but in the special case of our son, who suffers from heart disease is even more important. If the germs that live normally in the mouth get into the bloodstream, they can reach your heart, a heart defect is due to its easier to infect a healthy heart.
According to the Foundation Hearts Giblets, recent comparative studies among healthy children and children with heart problems have shown that parents of children with heart problems are less important and less attention to dental care for parents of healthy children. Results are very worrying if we consider that healthy teeth in children with heart disease is even more important than in healthy children. If the germs that live normally in the mouth get into the bloodstream, they can reach your heart . Infection in the heart, called “infective endocarditis” is a very serious disease that requires treatment in hospital with antibiotics for several days. This is why we must take special care to keep your mouth clean and healthy. To avoid such unwanted infections and their consequences, the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease recommends a few simple tips:
Teeth cleaning. You have to brush your teeth properly after every meal. In very young children when they begin teething (between 6 and 16 months of age) is recommended to clean the mouth once a day with gauze soaked in water. The best time is before you put him to bed at night. When I go to have more teeth (2 years) you have to use special soft toothbrush for children, and ye are parents, you have to take care of the cleaning, and help the child until you know it alone (7 years of age). When the child is older, you can use dental floss to complete the cleaning of the teeth. Fluorine . It is best to use a fluoridated toothpaste, but a small amount (about the size of a pea). It is important to teach your child to spit out the toothpaste, because much swallow fluoride is bad for him. While the child does not know spit out the toothpaste and not swallow it, it will be without fluoride. All children need fluoride to prevent cavities. Generally, the tap water we drink and wearing it, but you must ensure this by asking your dentist. If your drinking water has no fluoride (0.6 ppm) can give a pill, but assure you that not too much, it would also be harmful. Food . You must choose foods that do not have much sugar. Remember that fruits and vegetables are better than candy and cookies. It is better for children to eat a few sweets and candies, but if they ever do is very important to clean your teeth afterwards. You should also avoid sugary drinks, like juices and sodas. It is better to teach them to drink water.
Bottles and pacifiers . No baby to get used to going to bed with a bottle, but if needed, used a bottle of water or unsweetened chamomile. Milk, juice and sweet drinks such as sodas have sugar, and drink a bottle of this liquid, eventually cause cavities. It can be used to quiet the baby bottle as a pacifier. The child must eat in their hours. If you use pacifiers, never smeared in sweet (sugar, honey, condensed milk …) as this is a very common cause of tooth decay in children. Around the first year and you should teach your child to drink in a glass and leave the bottle. Read the rest of this entry »
Dental care for children
Most people believe that you can not do anything to take care of baby teeth until they have begun to emerge, this is not true and that is why today I bring you some tips on dental care for children and babies. The oral health care of the baby can begin as soon as born. During the last three months of pregnancy, 20 of the “baby teeth” is fully formed at birth and may be up to 12 permanent teeth beginning their development.
Many pediatric dental authorities recommend that we begin to clean the baby’s mouth before the teeth start to come out. This can be done using a piece of sterile gauze should be placed around the index finger to gently clean baby’s gums. This will help reduce the amount of bacteria in the mouth at the same time establishing a healthy routine dental care.
It is also important that the child be seen by a dentist specializing in children when they are 12 to 18 months of age. This query is for a comprehensive review and for recommendations on dental care at home, correct use of toothbrush and tips on healthy eating and good for your teeth Many dental diseases can be treated or avoided altogether if discovered in time. The first dental visit should occur no later than the first 20 baby “teeth” have left.
Teeth
Infant Teething usually occurs in a period of 6 to 30 months of age. Once the baby’s first tooth emerges, others will begin to do the same in small groups until all the top 20 baby “teeth” have done the same. During teething, many children get irritable, drool a lot, and suck just about everything at their disposal whether toys, blankets, fingers, and may also lose your appetite.
Although it is normal to experience discomfort, teething does not cause fever, diarrhea, or flu symptoms. If your baby is experiencing any of these symptoms during teething consult your doctor. It also can relieve their discomfort by offering to baby teething toys and fresh water but not too cold. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dental health in children
The dental care habits begin to develop in children from four months to coincide with the end of lactation and the beginning of the intake of solid food and semi solids.
At that age, usually when the child is born first tooth, so the type of food that is given, it can affect their dental health for the rest of his life. In fact, it demonstrated a direct relationship between consumption of sweetened beverages during infancy and later consumption of foods with high sugar content.
This is how sugar abuse in childhood can lead to dependence of sugary foods in adults. The more a child gets used to sugar, the more likely that, as an adult, is attracted to foods with excess sugar.
And we must consider not only the candy and goodies as the main carriers of sugar for the children, there are certain medications that contain in excess. Fruit juices, for example, are high in sugar so be careful and moderate consumption.
Water is the only drink that the child must take continuously throughout the day. Other drinks like juice or soft drinks should be served only in moderation with meals. Fruit juices, for example, can cause erosion of tooth enamel, so it is recommended that children should avoid drinking alcohol the evening or at bedtime.
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Dental Trauma in Children
The accidental injury of teeth is perhaps one of the most dramatic accidents that happen to an individual and their frequency in the dental clinic is becoming greater. In dentistry is even more evident, since the incidence of dental injuries is more precisely in childhood and adolescence.
A correct diagnosis and adequate therapeutic approach can solve or aggravate definitely a case, not only from the standpoint of the viability of the tooth in the mouth, but also the important psychological impact that the smile is on the individual.
Treatment may be multiple, ranging from removing the pain to protect the pulp (nerve) of the teeth, repositioning of avulsed teeth (they have left the bone that holds them) to different forms of pulp therapy.
Several studies have shown that approximately 24% of children under 14 have suffered some type of trauma to anterior teeth (incisors). Children are more prone to injuries in permanent teeth than girls, especially between 7 and 11 years, which is closely related to the sudden participation in sports and games.
Between 6 and 12 years, school age, with a peak at 9 years, are at greatest risk for dental injuries, mainly because, as seen above, the practice of violent sports or games. Usually affect one or a few teeth. In both dentitions (the milk teeth and permanent teeth), teeth that are most frequently fractured central incisors, especially the higher ones. Read the rest of this entry »
Benefits of early treatment in orthodontics
Another good reason to say yes to early treatment in orthodontics is that the child will reap the benefits at many levels.
• simplify and shorten or avoid the more complex treatment in adolescence;
• preserve capital dental (extractions of teeth, premolars and wisdom teeth, amputated up to a quarter of Heritage Dental, eight teeth);
• avoid the painful transition from surgery as an adult in case of atrophy of the jaws (action required when a missed period of growth, eg in cases of prognathism);
• intervene in children by an appliance or simple techniques, much less stringent than the rings at a time when he is receptive, and avoid disrupting the teenager who already suffers from many difficulties without it being necessary ‘add more; Read the rest of this entry »
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Preventing dental caries
From the youngest age one learns to dread decay. Rather than understanding dental care, there is every incentive to prevent these nasty intruders properly? Ending caries is not impossible.
Keep the smile of your child.
Your child is facing a formidable enemy: dental caries. To avoid unnecessary suffering and costly care, the best protection is prevention. With Doctissimo, learn all the tips to keep a smile on your toddler.
Caries: prevention rather than suffer.
This chronic disease of man the most common. It affects both the teeth as the permanent teeth and both men and children.
Tooth decay and diet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Over 30% of children every day have some tooth chopped
The 31 percent of children who eat sweets every day have some chopped tooth, according to results of a study by Clinics Vital Dent, on dental hygiene habits of children Spanish, made with data from more than 2,000 children between six and 12 years.
Specifically, the study reveals that 43.6 percent said two or trinkets to take three times a week, 21.4 percent do it once a week, 20.1 percent took sweets from time to time, 13 percent have this habit on a daily basis, and 1.8 per incant not take these products ever.
As for the tooth brushing habits, the results of this survey also show that 88.46 percent of Spanish children said brushing teeth every day, while 11.4 percent do not recognize this periodicity . Read the rest of this entry »
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