In order for the child to always have healthy teeth, and the oral cavity, and the digestive system, one should take care of the cleanliness of his mouth from birth. Therefore, to the question: "When to start brushing your teeth for children?" doctors advise: “Even before they appear!”
Of course, you can’t call such a procedure brushing your teeth , rather, it will be a massage of the gums and a hygienic treatment of the oral cavity. But this is the first step to accustom the baby to the necessary procedure.
Mom should daily wipe the mucous membrane in the baby’s mouth with a finger wrapped in a piece of gauze or putting on a special rubber nozzle.
On the surface of this nozzle are small spikes that massage the gums. Gauze also helps to not only cleanse the mouth, but also serves as a massage. In addition, the child must get used to the fact that daily certain procedures are performed in his mouth.
And yet, at what age does a child need to brush his teeth with a brush and toothpaste? The bulk of doctors suggest that you need to start from the year. Some already suggest using a soft brush from the moment the first tooth appears. In any case, you should approach the selection of brushes with great care.
It should be with a short soft bristle, with a comfortable rounded handle. Even the smallest toddlers respond positively to vibrant colors. Therefore, it is fine if the brush is brightly colored to have a pen in the shape of an animal. Best of all, the orange color in combination with other “warm” shades acts on the child’s psyche. Do not forget that there is a child nearby. When parents start brushing their baby teeth with the use of paste, then here it is necessary to carefully consider this moment. After all, little children do not know how to rinse your mouth. They usually suck pasta from the bristles of the brush. That is why a special translucent paste was invented - a gel that is not harmful to its digestive system.
In addition, every caring mother already knows the taste preferences of her crumbs. One turns the face away from the strawberries, but just loves the smell and taste of the apple, and the other hates the smell of cocoa, but it smacks sweetly from the cherry. And manufacturers of children's toothpastes took care of this! You can easily pick up exactly the taste that the little man prefers.
But if the baby even just chews a brush, tastes the pasta - this is a huge victory! The child should be praised for this act! But then it’s worth to clean his teeth yourself.
After all, plaque even on one single tooth harms not only the tooth itself, threatening tooth decay, but also with the saliva, it gets into the digestive system, doing its own "dirty business" there.
When asked about when to start brushing their children, some parents indefinitely wave their hands. “That's when all the teeth change to real ones, then we'll start. There is no need to torment the baby with stupid unnecessary procedures from childhood. All the same, these teeth will fall out, brush them or not! ”
Yes, true, milk teeth fall out. Only in case when teeth already infected with caries fall out, there is no absolute certainty that new ones will appear healthy and in places strictly defined for them. Therefore, there is no need to argue about when to start brushing teeth for children: the sooner the better!
Helping a small child with brushing should be up to eight years of age. And only after that you can stop tightly controlling the man. But while he is small, it is worthwhile to use all his imagination, all his parental instincts to help him not just get used to the unpleasant procedure, but to learn how to get real pleasure from it.
Although the question of when to start brushing your children’s teeth on their own is quite a moot point. Many parents allow children to practice oral hygiene from the age of five or six. After all, each person is very individual, and today's kids are getting so quick!