FALLING AND INJURY DENTAL TRAUMAS IN CHILDREN

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FALLING AND INJURY DENTAL TRAUMAS IN CHILDREN

– DENTAL TRAUMA
Dental traumas, which are extremely worrying for both the family and the child, are seen in approximately 1/3 of all children.
Especially children between the ages of 1 and 3 often fall because they cannot balance yet while learning to walk.

The teeth most affected by these falls are the upper anterior incisors.
While mild bumps often cause injuries to soft tissues such as lips and gums, severe bumps can cause tooth shaking, fractures in the mouth or root of the tooth, and sometimes even completely dislocation of the tooth.

– What should I do in dental trauma?

In case of dental trauma, first of all, parents should be calm and apply what should be done without panic. First of all, the most important point to know is that regardless of the size of the trauma, you should definitely reach your dentist and exchange information. Even traumas that seem insignificant from the outside can cause tooth loss.

If the entire tooth is displaced, it should be washed under clean, running water, keeping the root of the tooth intact. The ideal environment for the falling tooth to be delivered to the dentist is in the mouth. However, we do not recommend this method because the child can easily swallow the tooth. If the falling tooth is not in milk, if possible, it should be delivered to the physician as soon as possible in clean water. When you deliver the tooth, your dentist will decide whether the tooth will be relocated or not, depending on whether the falling tooth is milk or permanent, the tooth pit and the tooth being affected by trauma.

– BRIEFLY INSTANTLY OF THE TRAUMA;

• Contact your physician without wasting time.
• Wash the dislocated or broken tooth with clean running water without touching its root and deliver it to your doctor in milk.
• Do not shake the rocking tooth any more and seek medical advice immediately.
• Even if there is no visible problem in the teeth after trauma, definitely go to the dentist’s examination at an appropriate time. Traumas that are not visible from the outside but buried or damage the underlying permanent teeth can lead to tooth loss and tooth distortion in the long term.


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When do teeth start erupting?

When do teeth start erupting?

In babies, the first tooth starts to erupt around the 6th month. However, delays or early tooth eruption can be observed in tooth eruption. However, systemic diseases that delay tooth eruption should not be ignored. These diseases are thyroid, parathyroid and growth hormone deficiencies that generally prevent growth and development.

There are tooth buds in newborns. Buds of all milk teeth at birth

And the first permanent molar (six-year-old female) bumps were formed.
Teeth that will last between 4-8 months:

If there is slight relief in the area of ​​the upper incisors, these areas indicate that the upper right and left lateral incisors are in progress. The lower and upper middle incisors have taken. The driving order is in the form of first upper middle cutters, then upper side cutters, then lower side cutters.

Teeth that will last between 8-11 months:

All of the lower and upper middle and lateral incisors are erupted.

Teeth that will last between 11-15 months:

All lower and upper middle side incisors have erupted. Upper side milk cutters last 12 months before lower side milk cutters. Then first milk molars start to erupt.

Teeth that will last between 15-21 months:

When the child is 18 months old, milk canine teeth begin to erupt.

Teeth that will last between the ages of one and a half – two and a half:

The second sutures of the upper and lower jaws have also continued. Root calcification of the milk teeth is completed one year after the crowns have erupted. Permanent 1st molar tooth erupts at the age of six. Six-year-old teeth erupt behind existing milk teeth at age 6. Children and parents confuse six-year-old teeth with baby teeth. Before these teeth are fully erupted, only the chewing face can remain in place for months. Food deposits cause decay. Sometimes gingivitis occurs.

It should be remembered that an effective brushing process is more important than paste.
Do Not Forget These!

– Do not give your baby sugary foods at the last feeding at night. should be.
– After drinking milk with a bottle, give pus in water and a piece of cheese for mouth cleaning.
– Do not immerse the pacifier in sugar, honey or molasses.
– Do not put your baby’s groin in your mouth during feeding, do not take the bites from your mouth and give it to the baby.
Do not give your child sugary foods and drinks between meals.
-Ensure that the inside of the mouth is cleaned by giving water after each feeding.
– Babies should be left with a pacifier and bottle after one year of age, and be accustomed to feeding using a glass and groin.
-The inside of the mouth should be cleaned with wet gauze after every feeding, starting from the birth of the child, and this process should continue after the milk teeth are rubbed.
– From the age of two, regularly brush your teeth twice a day under your control. -Choose toothbrush and toothpaste suitable for your child’s age.
The amount of toothpaste should be the size of a pea.
-Be careful that your child does not swallow the toothpaste.
– Consult your dentist for protective fluoride application.
If there is a bruise in the teeth of milk, be sure to have it treated.
Apply fissure sealant to 6-year-old teeth, which lasts from the back of the milk teeth at the age of 6 and must remain in our mouth for life. If there is decay, have it treated.
Take your child to a dentist check-up every six months.
-Get a habit of regular dentist check-ups.


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CHILDREN DENTISTRY (PEDODONTICS)

CHILDREN DENTISTRY (PEDODONTICS)

It is a branch of science that examines and provides solutions to problems related to oral and dental health from birth to the end of adolescence.

The dental system goes through many periods in the process from eruption of milk teeth to permanent dentition in children.

During these periods, follow-up and prevention of tooth eruption disorders, application of preventive methods to decay teeth and permanent teeth, treatment of decays of deciduous teeth and permanent teeth, preservation of toothless cavities that may occur as a result of early extractions by making appliances to prevent tooth row in the future, even application of child prostheses to children born without teeth It is a science that includes many applications.

In the Pedodontics department, Pedodontists (Pediatric Dentists) carry out full oral examinations and all kinds of treatment and preventive applications of all babies, children and young people by taking a psychological approach according to the physical and emotional development of the children.
According to the researches about the frequency of caries in recent years; It is observed that the frequency of caries in children reaches 90% both in the period of deciduous dentition (2-6 years old) and in the period of mixed dentition (7-12 years old). For this reason, it is of great importance to apply decay prevention methods in order to protect the child’s future oral and dental health, and most importantly, the general health. Child dentists protect children from dental caries, which significantly affects their oral and dental health as well as their general health, by performing these protective applications at the right time according to the child’s dental and age development.
For this reason, you will have your child’s first oral and dental examination from the age of 1, and you will be able to fully protect your child from dental caries by having oral and dental checks and care at intervals determined by your pediatric dentist (1 in 4-6 months). The time of the first dentist examination and the dentist who performed it are of great importance in order to prevent the development of “Fear of the Dentist!”, Which we encounter in many adults today.