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Are milk teeth important?
I think that my son’s teeth are fine, as well as how he’s going to change he does not need as much dental care
The teeth in the human being begin to form from the intrauterine life and once their first teeth are born, the lower incisors erupt approximately at 5-6 months of life and culminate with the second molar approximately at 24-30 months of age. lifetime. This first dentition is called primary, milk or decidua.
The importance of the primary dentition and its conservation is fundamental to maintain a correct alignment that will serve as a bed for the next and last dentition, known as permanent.
The deciduous dentition is important because it guides the jaw to a centered and stable position in such a way that it allows the jaw bones to develop properly.
On the other hand it allows the successor (permanent) teeth to have adequate space to erupt and there is no crowding in the best of cases. Hence the importance of keeping milk teeth until tooth replacement occurs. The issue is that a piece of milk with caries very apart from the carious problem will generate alterations in the position of the bite if it is not treated in time.
If you get to lose any piece of milk you have to see how to preserve the lost space in such a way that there is no overtaking of the first lower molar and thus the space for the premolars is closed. The spaces left by the extractions can be preserved with the so-called space maintainers and if they are important to place them.
On the other hand, the control of caries in a child must be very neat and dedicated. By losing the front teeth not only aesthetics but also the function decreases, the tongue can be made space to enter the created space and thus deform the anterior part of the mouth only caused by the lingual pressure.
In short, dental checks on a child should ideally start as soon as his first tooth erupts and then check it every 6 months and then when 03-04 years is told how to brush and instruct the parents on the importance of teething milk.
Common procedures at this stage involve prophylaxis, sealants and fluoride topications to strengthen tooth enamel.
