Even though baby teeth don’t last a lifetime, it is still important to protect them from decay. Your child will use their baby teeth for the first few years of their lives until their adult teeth come through. Here are some tips to protect your infant from tooth decay.
1. Keep Your Baby’s Mouth Clean
It’s never too early to establish a good dental hygiene routine for your child. Even before the first teeth appear, you can use a damp cloth to gently clean your baby’s gums.…
Pain and discomfort is redoubtably experienced when a wisdom tooth has been extracted. Many people are not aware of the recovery time, or of how long it will take before they can eat crunchy foods again such as carrots and apples.
Wisdom teeth are always the final teeth to erupt in the mouth. However, not everyone keeps their wisdom teeth, nor are they vital for a healthy, bright smile. Some people’s wisdom teeth do not in fact grow fully, which can in turn cause harm.…
Do you ever jokingly refer to your children as animals? You might playfully (though with a sigh) call them pigs when their rooms are almost frightfully messy. You might lovingly call them monkeys when they’re excitable. But what about sharks? Maybe the only time you would equate your child to a shark is if they should happen to develop so-called shark’s teeth. Multiple rows of teeth might be perfectly ordinary for Jaws, and yet it can in fact be possible for a child to develop a second row of teeth.…
