Dental Caries

For children, visiting a dentist is like a nightmare. Most children consider that dental care is a painful and harmful process. The children’s fear of dental care is a problem because little kids need dental treatment to avoid any various dental problems which may occur in the future. So, as a parent, you have to make sure that your children understand the importance of early dental care.

The best thing to make your children understand the importance of dental care is by introducing the good dental care as soon as possible. There are several tips that you can follow to introduce the importance of dental care to your children:

•    Early dental care habit: Most children are afraid of dentists because they receive wrong information from the society and their friends. Their friends tell them that dentist is a nightmare that needs to be avoided, so they feel very nervous and afraid when we want to take them to the dentist. It is important for us as a parent to explain that dentist is just like another doctor who wants to help us stay healthy. Before your children enter the school and make some friends, you can take them regularly to the dentist and make them comfortable with the dentist care routine.
•    Dental healthy habit: You need to teach your children about healthy teeth. Children are the ones that love to eat sweet food. Explain to them that sweet can destroy their teeth and the best way to prevent teeth damage is by brushing the teeth soon after they eat sweet food. You can also teach them to brush the teeth three times a day, in the morning, in the afternoon, and before they are going to sleep.
•    Brushing technique: Most people in the world are brushing their teeth in a wrong way. They developed a wrong brushing technique when they were kids and this habit lasts until they grow up. So, you can teach your children about proper brushing technique in their early age in order to shape a good brushing habit that will last until they are adult.
•    Flossing: Flossing is as important as brushing your teeth. This is the process of cleaning the food particles that stuck between the teeth. The process of flossing is very important for daily dental care so you can teach your children to do flossing at least once a day to remove any food particles that left behind the teeth.
•    Healthy eating habit: Healthy foods are good for the teeth. There are several foods that are considered as good for our teeth like food with high calcium and mineral. Teach your children about the foods which are healthy for the teeth and the foods which are bad for the teeth.