to keep your child's teeth to appear are always healthy and take care of him since the start wat young children because milk teeth health determines the health of the permanent teeth of children. to protect the health of children's teeth forbid children to do things that could damage the health of children's teeth as follows:
- Important for children to mersihkan their teeth with a toothbrush or rinse immediately after taking the medication. Medications such as cough syrups contain sugar that is not good for the health of your teeth, because the sugar content of the drug is converted by bacteria into acid on the teeth that will damage the enamel on the teeth.
- If children chew gum, encourage him to choose sugarless gum, or gum that helps reduce bad bacteria in the mouth. Chewing gum can clean the plaque on the teeth than it could stimulate the production of saliva to clean the bacteria in the mouth.
- Avoid giving milk to children before bedtime, or give him milk in a bottle to make it easier to sleep.
- Familiarize children drink water. Water will remove food particles from between the teeth. but can help clean teeth water can also help cleanse the digestive tract.
- Familiarize children eat some kind of snack as soon as possible. How often she ate snacks is more important than how many snacks he ate. Distance between meal snacks make saliva is able to clean the teeth of particles and bacteria that interfere. Too often eat without brushing your teeth feed on bacteria that leads to plaque buildup and cavities.
- Give the sugar-free foods because foods that contain lots of sugar can stimulate bacteria in the mouth to produce acids that can damage tooth enamel.
- Serve sweet foods along with eating routine and should not be used as a snack. If you plan to give it a sweet food, serve as a dessert after the main meal. After that clean teeth by rinsing or brushing teeth.
- Reduce the provision of soft drinks or fruit juice in containers that contain acid. Water and milk is a drink that can be given between meals.
possible to support the health of these foods need to be avoided or not to be consumed by children:
- Food was very sweet with a high sugar content such as lollipops, hard candy sweet, candy.
- The food is sticky and chewy like raisins, lunkhead, oatmeal cookies or peanut butter, jelly beans and caramel. Because these foods inhibit saliva to drive sugar from your teeth. If not give your child this food immediately ask the child to rinse shortly after eating.
The following foods should be given to children to support the growth of teeth health:
- Cheese: presented along with lunch or as a snack, especially cheese slabs or other types of cheese because the cheese trigger the flow of saliva. Saliva helps clean food particles from the teeth.
- Fruits and vegetables: make fruits and vegetables as snacks. Choose a high water content such as pear, melon, yam and celery are the best. Bananas and raisins contain concentrated sugar. When you give these two types of fruit, brush teeth immediately after eating.
- Important eat and drink calcium to strengthen teeth as additional unsweetened milk, broccoli and yogurt.
