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Changes in Brushing Methods from Age

Age is important

Oral cleaning should be done from birth. Although everyone’s growth status is different, about 6 years old can be regarded as a watershed. Before 6 years old, adults help children brush their teeth. After 6 years old, children Brush your teeth yourself.

Which can be subdivided into the following stages: birth to 6 months (tooth), 6 months to 3 years, 3 to 6 years, 6 to 10 years, 10 to 12 years old, after 12 years of age . The development and flexibility of the hands are different at different ages, and the degree to which adults need to be involved is different.

6 months ago: clean milk scale

The first tooth will not start to grow until about 6 months after birth. However, at this stage, due to the relationship of drinking milk, the tongue often gets a layer of milk stain. It is recommended to clean it at least once a day, otherwise it may easily become moldy and smelly. .

It is also possible to let small children get used to the sensation of “foreign objects” in their mouths that are not food. Usually the child will not react too cooperatively, but let him get used to it slowly and establish a habit of oral cleaning.

6 months after teething: start brushing

From 6 months to about 3 years of age, when there are teeth and food, the child will start to enter and may start to have tooth decay, regardless of whether you are fed breast milk, formula milk, milk, or non-staple food. If you have teeth, you should start brushing your teeth.

In the beginning, the long incisors were fairly flat, smooth, and easy to brush. At this time, you can use gauze towels, finger cots, and silicone toothbrushes to brush your teeth, but if the back molars are long, because the molars have many concave and convex places, it is recommended Be sure to start using a toothbrush. I would even suggest that parents actually let their children get used to brushing their teeth with a toothbrush as soon as possible, instead of waiting for the molars to get used to it.

Children at this stage may not even be able to communicate with each other because they are still relatively young. There are very few children who can cooperate obediently when brushing their teeth. They can do both soft and hard when brushing their teeth. On the one hand, they can make children like brushing their teeth through games and praise. Brushing your teeth harder, otherwise children at this age will have tooth decay, and treatment is probably not a simple matter…

After 3 years old: Practice brushing yourself

From the age of 3 to 6 years, the sense of autonomy may start to be stronger. Some people may start to want to brush themselves instead of the parents. It is just that the children at this stage are not dexterous enough, and they may be weak and unable to clean themselves thoroughly. tooth. Therefore, the responsibility of brushing teeth cannot be completely thrown on the children. At this stage, adults still have to help them brush their teeth.

When faced with children arguing about brushing by themselves, parents don’t need to deny them completely. They can first brush them by themselves, so that they can build up the habit of brushing their teeth. But when they finish brushing, the adult should help them brush again. Will be really clean.

After 6 years old: help and check again

From the age of 6 to 10, the fineness of the hands is getting better and better. Brushing can basically be done by yourself, but unlike a 3-year-old child, at this stage children may already be able to brush clean by themselves or willing to clean. , But he doesn’t know if he has cleaned it. Or some children are powerless and feel that brushing teeth is troublesome and lacks interest.

 

Therefore, facing the children at this stage, the status of adults has changed from the performer of brushing to the supervisor of brushing: helping to check and urge children to brush their teeth. If the brush is not clean, ask the child to brush it again until it is clean.

Some parents may worry that they don’t know whether their children’s teeth are clean or not after brushing. You can see if there are any foggy buckles on the teeth. If there are some, they are basically not clean. Or you can use the plaque display agent as a quiz for brushing your teeth to stain the teeth with bacteria, so that adults and children can tell which side is not clean.

It’s just that children at this stage have another weakness: dental floss. Dental flossing requires higher hand accuracy than brushing teeth. Children in the middle and lower grades of elementary school may still have difficulty in using it, and may need an adult to help floss, at least once a day

After 10 years old: floss yourself

After the age of 10, the fineness of the child’s hands is better, and he can slowly let him floss himself. A simple evaluation method is that when a child can tie his own shoelaces and cut his own nails, he can almost floss himself.

At this stage, children brushing their teeth should be getting better and better. Parents can still check if they are free and remind them where there are missing areas that have not been cleaned.

Teenage girls after the age of 12 are responsible for their teeth and their lives.

Children after 12 years old (maybe they shouldn’t be called children), brushing and flossing may not be bothersome to them. At this stage, the responsibility can really be slowly transferred to themselves and let him be The teeth are in charge.

At this stage, the children’s teeth should have almost been replaced. They are already permanent teeth. Let them understand that these teeth will be used for a lifetime, and there will be no more decayed teeth like before and a second chance.

In particular, the most annoying thing about teeth is that he will not heal himself. If the tooth is decayed, he has to fill it. However, the fillings have a useful life, dentures have a useful life, and even implants have a useful life. In the cycle of “tooth filling-problem again-treatment”, it is very troublesome. Good brushing is the most important factor in maintaining oral hygiene.

Perhaps some people will have to consider other dental treatments such as orthodontics or even dentures at first, but good oral hygiene is an important cornerstone of all dental treatments. Without cleaning, any treatment is easily wasted….

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