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Mouth with feeding-bottle teeth.
DEFINITION
The deterioration of the teeth for the feeding-bottle is a dental problem that can destroy the teeth of a child in the first 2 years.
CAUSES
The deterioration of the teeth for the feeding-bottle takes place for exhibiting the teeth to liquids that contain sugar during long time periods. Between these liquids there are the milk, juices, gelatine or other sugary liquids.
The deterioration of the teeth happens also in children who keep on sucking for long periods of time (it can happen, for example, if the mother falls asleep while the baby is sucking).
The badge of bacteria that exists on the teeth uses this sugar as an energy source to form acids that they attack to the enamel of the tooth.
PREVENTION
- Never leave his child in the bed with a feeding-bottle.
- Avoid the long use of pacifiers.
- After every meal, rinse the teeth and gums of the child with a clean sponge or gauze to remove the badge.
- Begin to use dental silk between the teeth of the children as soon as the first teeth of the baby appear.
- Between the meals, if his child needs other between hours, dele a feeding-bottle of clear fresh water.
- Do not fill the feeding-bottle of his child of liquids that have sugar such like cinchona bark, punches, gelatine, or sugary drinks.
- Make sure that his child should take fluorine of some form, especially if his water is not fluorada.
- Observe the teeth of his child regularly and begin the visits to the dentist when the teeth begin going out.
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