The regular visits to a dental professional , getting enough fluoride and eating right are the steps that lead to good dental health. Follow these recommendations and to teach children may allow the child to have healthy teeth and a healthy smile.

When are the teeth?
Teeth begin forming under the gums before the child is born. During pregnancy, the mother can help a good dental health of your child by following the doctor’s advice and eating a balanced way. Child’s first teeth come out around 5-6 months old, but this is variable. Other children do not get teeth until they are 1 year old.

When they start getting teeth, gums, the child becomes swollen and inflamed right above where you will receive the first tooth. This causes discomfort to the child, which can be alleviated by “biting” or pacifier to chew or suck the better only if you have gotten into the refrigerator, because cold reduces further delay.

Do not give your child never pacifier dipped in sweet liquids, because the sugar stays in the teeth and provides food for bacteria which then produce the cavities.

Do not give your child never pacifier dipped in sweet liquids
When the child is several months, begins to produce more saliva than is able to swallow, so it tends to drool. At about the same age the child begins to pick up objects with their hands and mouthing, sucking and biting objects is a natural part of child development and need not indicate that it is out another tooth.

Baby teeth, or child, or temporary help your child chew food, speak clearly and keep the site for permanent or permanent teeth, which start out around 5 or 6 years old. It is important to start the child in good dental health habits as soon as possible, since the beginning of little children to take care of your teeth are more likely to have good dental habits as adults.

Fluoride
The toothpaste and tap water may contain fluoride, a mineral that is important for dental health. Fluoride is a natural chemical compound that can be added to tap water. Strengthens the enamel, the hard outer layer covering the tooth. Enamel production starts before the teeth erupt, so that fluoride helps prevent cavities from the beginning. In addition, fluoride also helps to repair damage to the tooth enamel.

Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel

The fluoride content of tap water is very variable: the water containing low levels of fluoride can be a problem for children who do not get enough fluoride from their breast-feeding or bottle. The consultation with the pediatrician about it can make the child start taking extra amounts of fluoride after 6 months of age, which should continue until 16 years old or so.

When should I start dental hygiene of the child?
Daily dental hygiene should begin as soon as the child’s first tooth. You only have to rub the teeth with a clean gauze. The brush and fluoride toothpaste was introduced when the child is older and able to brush alone all day.

Daily dental hygiene should begin now with the first tooth
Fluoride in toothpaste is absorbed through the enamel and helps prevent cavities. Since children usually swallow the toothpaste you should use a small amount of toothpaste (about the size of a pea) with fluorine in the brush. If you take too much fluoride toothpaste can cause mottling of bright white patches on the tooth enamel.

Cavities
We must periodically review your child’s teeth to find decay, which often appear as white, yellow or brown spots on the teeth. Some children may develop cavities in spite of a good preventive measures. It may be because it is a common problem in your family, and that genetic inheritance plays a role in the overall dental health of an individual.

“Thumb-sucking is bad for your teeth?
Thumb-sucking is normal in children and usually does not cause permanent problems if it is continued beyond 5 years of age. Nor is it recommended pacifier use after this age. Children who suck their thumbs after 5 years should be brought to the pediatric dentist to determine if there is trouble or not yet.

“Put the child in bed with a bottle is bad for your teeth?
The kids who get in bed with a bottle filled with milk or fruit juice are at high risk of developing “bottle caries.” When these children fall asleep, there is usually a small amount of liquid in their mouths and sugar of milk or juice facilitates the growth of bacteria that end up damaging your teeth and sometimes large and numerous caries. Like the older children who carry a bottle of milk or juice all day and use it as a pacifier.

What can be done to prevent baby bottle tooth decay is:

Do not put to sleep the baby in bed with a bottle

Do not use a bottle filled with milk or juice as a pacifier during the day

Do not let the child carry around and use it at your leisure
• Teach your child to drink from a cup as soon as possible as to be able to catch it. Most children can do before their first birthday

What other dietary habits are bad for the child’s teeth?
Sweets and candies can cause tooth decay eventually. Starchy foods such cookies remain on your teeth for a long time. The sugar in fruit and fruit juices are also held in the teeth for long periods of time, and all predispose caries.

Sweets and candies predispose to dental caries
However, both starches and fruits are an important and necessary part of feeding any child. To prevent decay, the child can take any of these foods during or after meals, always before brushing teeth, and not before bedtime. The feeding of the child must be rich, varied and balanced as any other person.

When the child should go to the dentist?
Up to 3 years of age, care and recommendations on dental health is often a thing of the pediatrician, who in each of the periodic visits should review the teeth and gums to confirm your good health. However, if there are dental problems, the child should be referred to the pediatric dentist, a specialist in the care of the child’s teeth, although many adults dentists are also experienced in helping children. The pediatrician should refer the child to the pediatric dentist before age 3 in the following situations:
• If the child is chipped or broken a tooth or suffer trauma to the face or mouth

• If the teeth show any signs of discolouration, which may be a sign of caries

• If a tooth is painful or sensitive to food or liquids hot or cold, which can also be a sign of caries

Prevention
Children should go regularly to a dental examination after 3 years of age or after they have already have left the 20 teeth. The pediatric dentist is the appropriate specialist for that, both for regular visits to visits for dental health problems.

Regular scans, a balanced diet, fluoride, prevention of injury and daily brushing are all key elements of child dental health. Good habits started in childhood when the child allow an adult to have a healthy mouth and a healthy smile.

Dental implants are artificial substitutes for tooth roots that is placed on the tooth crown to replace the visible portion of the tooth.

These implants are small pieces of shaped metal screw that is inserted into the jawbone or mandible. The metal used is titanium, which has the property of being “biocompatibe”, ie it is integrated into the bone by a firm bond and does not cause rejection.

Prior to his placement is made an exhaustive study of the patient, general health status, state of the jawbone, your jaw joint and the possibility of successful treatment.

This procedure is performed in the operating room under local or general anesthesia. To ensure their success requires the intervention of a multidisciplinary team which coordinated the prosthodontist, oral surgeon, the laboratory technician in dental prosthesis and dental hygienist. It is also necessary that the patient is committed to carefully look after their dental hygiene.