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Primary Prevention of Tooth Decay Down’s Syndrome Child
Primary prevention refers to prevention of the disease before it has been developed and includes the following factors:
-. Oro-facial conditions: The muscles that surround the mouth and those involved in the process of mastication have a low tone (hypotonic muscle) where it is explained that occur malocclusions (bad relationship between the teeth and upper molars and below), decreased masticatory efficiency, difficulty swallowing (atypical swallowing), slurred speech (phonetic functional alterations). Treatments should be made rehabilitadotes (physiotherapy) at an early age on the facial muscles.
-. Control diet: the child should eat five times a day, there must be a control on the consumption of sugars and sticky foods that adhere strongly to the tooth. A balanced diet will provide all the elements needed for optimal training tooth. The deficiencies that occur during development can cause metabolic changes responsible for the malformation.
-. Removal of plaque: made by bacteria that produce acids. These are responsible for weakening the enamel, micro-cavities are formed and starts the decay process.
You can focus on prevention in relation to each of these factors. For example, taking a balanced diet with an optimal intake of foods that naturally contain fluoride (orange, lemon, apple, banana, grapes, mango, papaya, melon, strawberry, watermelon, corn, wheat, rice, cauliflower, cabbage, Lettuce, beets, carrots, onion. sardines, cod, eggs, chicken, beef liver, kidney.) succeeds in forming and eruption of teeth in good condition making them more resistant to decay, also must be matched by a reduction in the amount and frequency of sugar consumption, and finally daily breaking of the bacterial colony through mechanical removal.
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Dental Care for Children with Down Syndrome
Caring for a child with Down syndrome can be performed as with any child as long as it has:
Patience, understanding and knowledge.
PATIENCE: You must have the ability to understand the experiences and feelings of the child without losing its own objective, which in this case is to give a satisfactory dental care.
Must be generated in the child a responsible gaming environment for this is motivated in their oral hygiene. The mother should be aware that children can not just do it and she is directly responsible for it.
Comprehension: understanding the limitations inherent in the situation, the mother should help your child in the prevention of oral diseases such as periodontal disease (inflammation and bleeding of the gums) that presents a higher incidence and presence of cavities, their normal incidence.
Primary prevention refers to prevention of the disease before it has been developed and includes the following factors:
1 -. Dental condition, the eruption of teeth is usually delayed and often appears so unusual. May be missing both milk teeth as definitive. The depressions have teeth, wrinkling and / or absence of enamel (enamel hypoplasia), may have tiny teeth (Microdontia) or a rare (tapered) and dental crowding (too stuck in disorder or twisted) due to smallness of the oral cavity. Children are oral breathing (breathing through the mouth) because they have narrow nostrils, this helps to show up fissures in the tongue and lips, also have a large tongue (macroglossia). These factors determine not to have self-cleaning is usually done by passing the language on all tooth surfaces by removing the large food debris and saliva to swallow, this favors the retention of acid-producing organisms and food on the tooth, creating an environment favorable for the disease. Routine cleaning and visits to the dentist every three months contributes decisively to the loss of teeth.