What do you want your baby to pay attention to in preventing dental caries?

0 1 How did dental caries come from? When it comes to the causes of dental caries, maybe everyone's first reaction is "eating sugar". Indeed, now parents are very careful not to let their babies eat too many snacks such as candy, thinking that this can prevent dental caries. However, is it really that simple?

First of all, it needs to be clear that the culprit of tooth decay is not sugar, but bacteria. The principle of dental caries is that bacteria break down sugar and produce organic acids. Just as we can easily wash away the scale with citric acid (mainly composed of calcium salt and magnesium salt), organic acids produced by bacteria can also make calcium ions in enamel escape.

If oral hygiene habits are not good, food residues and dental plaque cannot be removed in time, and bacteria will always produce organic acids. After a long time, too many calcium ions will come out, and the teeth will demineralize. The color of newly demineralized teeth will change and the surface will no longer be smooth. At this stage, enamel can be restored by corresponding treatment, such as applying fluoride drugs. However, if it is not treated in time, the enamel will be further irreversibly destroyed and penetrate into the pulp, eventually leading to pulp infection. At this stage, the next thing waiting for the teeth is terrible pain, shiny dental drill and bright root canal file. ...

So, what can parents do to protect their baby's dental health?

Eat less sugar? That's not enough. In order to avoid baby's dental caries, it is not enough to eat less candy and snacks. Because of bacteria, the "sugar" they can use actually refers to carbohydrates. Common foods such as rice, bread, noodles, potatoes, etc. They all contain a lot of carbohydrates. If the baby eats these foods, if he doesn't clean his mouth in time, it is equivalent to helping bacteria hurt his teeth.

As for those carbonated drinks, it will reduce the pH value of the oral environment and directly cause demineralization of teeth, not to mention that carbonated drinks often add a lot of sugar. So it's easy to drink occasionally and rinse your mouth in time, but don't let your baby drink carbonated drinks frequently.

Some parents may ask that babies just like sweetness. Why not give him sugar-free and sweetened food? Of course, in principle, some sweeteners can be sweet but not used by bacteria, which is not easy to cause dental caries. However, often giving the baby such sweets is actually slowly changing his taste, which makes it easy for the baby to unconsciously eat more ordinary sweets in the future, increasing the possibility of obesity and dental caries.