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When my baby has her first tooth, What are the health-oral gestures- adapted dental ?
Before the first teeth, you can spend a compress soaked with water or saline.
Only a power monitoring and precautions to prevent the entry of bacteria in the mouth are needed.
Only a power monitoring and precautions to prevent the entry of bacteria in the mouth are needed.
From the first teeth, you should brush your child's teeth. It is not too early to form good habits because the bacterial plaque develops at the onset of the first teeth. To make brushing parents placed behind the child holding the child in their arms. The dosage of fluoride toothpaste web varies depending on the age :
- From the first teeth of the child until 2 years, brushing is done once a day by her parents with water.
- From 2 years, the brushing is carried 2 times a day with a fluoride toothpaste between 250 ppm et 600 ppm when the child can spit.
- From 3 years, the brushing is carried 2 times a day with a fluoride toothpaste between 500 ppm et 1000 ppm when the child can spit, for 2 minutes.
- Finally after 6 years, we brush our teeth 2 times a day with a fluoride toothpaste between 1000 and 1500 ppm, for 2 minutes.
What brushing technique when my child has all his teeth ?
Of 4 to 6 years, the child begins to become autonomous and learns BOUBOU ® method. Under the control of parents, the child realizes itself effective brushing :
- You learn to brush his teeth.
- Brush well it holds in his hand.
- It does not wet the toothbrush
- The upper teeth is brushed separately and bottom
- The bristles of the brush are riding on the teeth and brush makes a reciprocating movement.
What brushing technique when my child has a mixed dentition (teeth + permanent teeth) between 6 and 9 years ?
- It starts at the bottom, a side close to the other each time
- For each side, the brush is placed astride the last tooth of the bottom and back of front brush 10 time
- For front teeth (canine à canine), one part of the tooth brush can be seen by turning the brush pink to white (gencive towards the rotary brushing teeth)
- We brush the back of the front teeth with the brush height and movement of pink to white
And when my child has all his permanent teeth ?
The method is ideal BROS from 9 years, even if the child does not have all its permanent teeth and it is a method to keep for a lifetime.