If you are a parent, then probably you had experienced a difficult situation with your child who does not like to brush his or her teeth.
This is normal to toddlers and this is tiring to do at night, especially when it is time to go to sleep.
Developing a good dental health should start as early as young so that future dental problems will be avoided.
Dental Health Should Start Before Teething This may seem a little exaggerated but good dental health should be started even if your baby does not have teeth yet.
Use a clean, soft, and wet cloth, and wipe the gums after eating.
This will prevent the development of bacteria and buildup of food.
You should keep on doing this until the baby teeth start to come out.
See your dentist when your baby reaches one year old.
This ensures the optimum condition of dental health and your dentist can give advice on how to maintain a good dental health.
Early consultations to the dentist will prevent the development of fear every time your child visits the clinic.
When a child has fear of the dentist, it will limit his honesty about his dental problems.
Your child may not tell you about his or her dental problems because of the desire to avoid the clinic, and this will only make the problems worse.
If your child is confident with the dentist, then there will be no problem when it comes to confessing about his or her dental problems.
Use Cups As Soon As Possible Breast feeding and bottle can harm your baby's teeth since they fall asleep while drinking them.
The substances will buildup in their mouth and stays there for a long period of time.
Sugar and food will catalyze the corrosion on your baby's teeth.
Always wipe them with a wet cloth after feeding to prevent from the exposure from sugars.
When the baby starts to learn how to drink using a cup, gradually take away the bottle.
Drinking from cups makes the feeding faster and lessens the exposure of the teeth from sugar.
Turn Brushing Enjoyable You can make tooth brushing enjoyable for your kid.
You can sing his or her favorite song while brushing together or you can formulate a game about the number of strokes made for each part of the mouth.
Include all the things that your kid loves in his or her oral health tools.
Buy a toothbrush that with his or her favorite cartoon on it.
You can also buy an electric toothbrush.
It can help the brushing faster and more efficient, the whirring sound will also set an excitement to your kid.
It is a fact that kids love to play with gadgets, so an electric toothbrush can make it more enjoyable.
At the age of seven, you kid should know how to brush and floss his or her teeth.
You can do this activity for your child until he or she learns how to do it.
He or she will come to see oral hygiene as an enjoyable daily activity that should be done diligently.
This kind of conditioning will promote strong teeth.