The ten bad habits that damage your baby's teeth, correct them in time

If you want your baby to have beautiful teeth, you must correct these ten bad habits in time.

NO.1 Drinking milk while lying down

If the baby is accustomed to lying down to drink milk, the chin will always stretch forward, which may cause tooth deformities, such as overbite, which will affect the baby's facial development.

Generally, after the baby's deciduous teeth have erupted, lying down to feed the baby will affect the problem of milk residue in the mouth. Because when the baby drinks milk while lying down, some milk will remain in the gaps between the teeth. If it is not cleaned in time, it will increase the risk of the baby suffering from caries.

Drinking milk while lying down will reduce the baby's swallowing time and ignore the swallowing process. Babies who drink milk while lying down for a long time will have worse swallowing function than babies who are fed in normal posture.

NO.2 Biting your lips

Biting the lower lip will put pressure on the lingual side of the upper front teeth and the labial side of the lower front teeth (referring to the upper and lower incisors). This abnormal pressure will push the upper incisors to gradually tilt forward, and compress the lower incisors to move backward. As a result, the upper incisors will be excessively protruding, gaps will appear between the teeth, the lower incisors will be crowded, and the front-to-back distance between the upper and lower incisors will be too large, making it difficult to bite off food when chewing. The upper lip will also be supported by the protruding upper teeth and curled outward and become thicker, making it difficult to close with the lower lip, forming a "bucktooth" face with "exposed teeth and open lips", which not only affects the function of the teeth, but also affects the beauty.

Biting the upper lip is just the opposite of the above situation, which will cause the upper incisors to be sunken and crowded, the lower incisors to be sparse, and the mandible to protrude. In severe cases, it may even cause an incisor crossbite, making the entire face appear sunken. Parents should remind children who have the habit of biting their lips to correct it at any time to get rid of the bad habit of biting their lips. When children bite their lips, parents should remain calm, patiently, carefully, and gently guide and educate their children to slowly correct bad oral habits. If the child has already suffered from problems such as uneven teeth and malocclusion due to bad habits such as biting his lips, he should go to a professional dental hospital for examination in time for early intervention.

NO.3 Sleeping with a pacifier in your mouth

1. Affect the baby's tooth development and even cause dental disease

If a baby falls asleep with a bottle or pacifier in his mouth, it is not good for the child's oral hygiene and it is easy for the baby to suffer from "baby bottle teeth". When rotten teeth form, the baby will also drool. In addition, once "baby bottle teeth" are formed, it will cause cavitation on the surface of the teeth, making the surface of the teeth rough, which will become a factor that makes it easy to get tooth decay in the future.

2. Affect the appearance of the child's mouth and cause "overbite"

Continuous sucking will affect the development of the oral cavity, causing deformities in the upper and lower jaws and affecting the beauty of the face.

NO.4 Likes to eat with one side of the teeth

Is it okay to eat with one side of your teeth? Long-term unilateral chewing not only affects the appearance of your face, but also causes a variety of oral diseases.

Because when you chew food, the friction of food and the flushing of saliva will have a self-cleaning effect on the teeth. However, unilateral chewing will cause the teeth on one side to lose this benefit, which can easily lead to tooth decay and gingivitis.

NO.5 Use your teeth to bite things

Does your baby like to chew his fingernails or the corners of clothes, cuffs, or quilts? Be sure to stop it in time.

Because when babies bite these objects, they usually fix on a certain part of the teeth, which can easily cause local gaps between the upper and lower teeth. Over time, it can easily form small local opening and closing deformities of the teeth.

NO.6 Open mouth breathing

It is very harmful for children to open their mouths when sleeping. It seriously affects the growth and development of children. First of all, it affects the development of maxillofacial area and appearance, leading to malocclusion, some facial changes due to mandibular retraction, shortening of the upper layer, including spinal curvature, etc. Secondly, it affects the intelligence, growth and development, height of children, and has a serious impact on some systems of the whole body. The oxygen saturation in the blood of normal people is 100%, while the oxygen saturation in the blood of children who open their mouths is lower, which has a great impact on human growth. Some serious cases of mouth breathing may cause nocturnal apnea, and the most serious ones can be life-threatening.

NO.7 Wrong brushing method

Brushing too hard, brushing horizontally, and choosing the wrong toothbrush can damage your teeth.

Long-term use of a hard toothbrush and incorrect, rough horizontal brushing methods can easily lead to "wedge-shaped defects" on the teeth, that is, a concave "little crescent" appears at the root of the tooth.

You should choose a toothbrush with soft bristles and a small head; brush your teeth vertically, with gentle movements and repeated movements multiple times, and insist on brushing your teeth before going to bed.

NO.8: Sucking your finger

This habit may seem simple, but if it accumulates over a long period of time, it will have a certain impact on the development of teeth and jaws. Biting fingers may limit the development of the baby's lower jaw, causing maxillary protrusion and mandibular retraction. Therefore, parents should pay close attention to the baby's development and correct it in time if they find it.

NO.9 Eating candy before bed

Before going to bed at night, most people drink very little water, and most organs of the human body are in a "resting" state, so the amount of saliva secretion decreases.

If you eat a piece of candy at this time, the sugar will continuously produce lactic acid during the metabolism of bacteria, and without being washed away by saliva, the lactic acid will corrode your teeth and form cavities, which will cause tooth decay over time.

NO.10 Picking your teeth carelessly

Many adults like to pick their teeth with toothpicks after meals, and children will follow suit. This is actually a bad habit. Children's little hands can't easily grasp the strength, and the sharp toothpicks can accidentally pierce the gums, causing unnecessary pain.

Too much stimulation from the toothpick can also cause the gum papilla to shrink, and the gaps between teeth can easily widen, making it easier for food to get stuck in. And if the toothpick is unhygienic, the gum mucosa will be broken when picking teeth, and bacteria can easily enter and cause infection.