10 Tips to Keep Your Child's Teeth Healthy by Dentist in Brampton

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Tip 1. Proper nutrition
Proper nutrition is one of the main tasks for
parents who want to ensure the health of their
child's teeth. After eating food, especially one
is containing carbohydrates, an acidic
environment forms in the mouth. In an acidic
environment, mineral components are washed out of
the enamel, which can cause the onset of a
carious process. Saliva has a beneficial property
to restore the pH of the oral fluid to normal.
Thereby stopping the process of enamel
demineralization and enhancing its
re-mineralization.
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• Considering the above features, we can conclude
  that the occurrence of caries is more influenced
  not by the number of carbohydrates eaten per day
  but by the frequency of their use. Therefore,
  Dentist in Brampton Ontario recommendations
  regarding carbohydrate intake are as follows
• Reduce snacks to a minimum while excluding snacks
  with light carbohydrates (cookies, sweets, rolls,
  bagels, corn sticks, etc.)
• The minimum amount of time between meals should
  be at least three hours
• Give sweet only for dessert after the main meal.
  In this case, you can adjust the number of sweets
  at your

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• discretion. If a child eats one candy or ten
  candies for dessert and then does not eat sweets
  before dinner, then in both cases, this will not
  negatively affect dental health
• Avoid drinking sugary liquids between meals
  because this is equivalent to snacking on
  carbohydrates. Sweet liquids include everything
  except water and tea without sugar and honey.
  Leave compote, juice for dessert
• Products useful for teeth are fermented milk
  products, green vegetables (broccoli, zucchini,
  parsley, spinach), fish,
• nuts, buckwheat porridge, butter).
• Click to read Important Information on Child's
  Milk Teeth

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Tip 2. Nothing but water at night! After you
stop breastfeeding at night, do not give babies
anything other than water to drink. The use of
other liquids - compote (even if it is
sugar-free), kefir, milk, mixtures,
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sweetened or acidified tea, etc. - leads to the
appearance of bottle caries. Moreover, in this
case, the leading cause of caries is not the fact
that the child drinks from the bottle but the
liquid poured into the bottle. Tip 3. Teach
children to be hygienic from the first tooth When
your child's teeth begin to erupt, wipe them with
a gauze pad or a particular xylitol-soaked
tissue. With the appearance of more teeth, you
can begin to introduce your baby to the
toothbrush.
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Tip 4. Brush your teeth two times a day
In the morning after breakfast (this is very
important!) And in
the evening before bedtime. When the child turns
one year old, it is necessary to bring the baby
for a consultation with a Family Dentist in
Brampton, to teach the correct brushing technique
and pick up toothpaste and a toothbrush.
Tip 5. Don't forget to clean your interdentally
spaces!
In children over three years old, the most common
localization of caries is contact surfaces. That
is why, starting from this age, it is necessary
to clean the child's interdentally spaces with
the help of special floss sticks.
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Tip 6 Use mouthwash
Usually, children start using mouthwash after
five years of age, when parents can be sure that
the child will spit it out completely. The
mouthwash contains mineral and antiseptic
components and, according to various scientific
publications, the systematic use of the mouthwash
can reduce the risk of caries by 15-20.
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Tip 7. Choosing the right toothpaste
It will be more correct if you do not just buy
toothpaste in the supermarket by marking the
child's age, but if the Dentist in
Brampton carries out an individual selection of
toothpaste, taking into account the peculiarities
of the condition of your child's teeth and gums.
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Tip 8 Chewing Xylitol Gum after Meals Chewing
gum mechanically cleans teeth from plaque. While
xylitol inhibits the growth of cariogenic
microbes and promotes enamel mineralization. Tip
9. Professional hygiene and fluoridation of
teeth No matter how well parents take care of
their children's teeth, there are still
hard-to-reach places where plaque remains
systematic. Therefore, teeth sometimes need to be
cleaned by specialists, especially for children
who wear orthodontic instruments. 
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Tip 10. Sealing fissures Most likely, not all
parents know what fissures are, so I'll start
with an explanation. Fissures are grooves and
grooves that you can see if you carefully examine
the chewing surface of the posterior teeth. When
a tooth erupts, the enamel in the fissure area is
not yet fully formed. There are few mineral
components in it. The formation of enamel
continues for another 2-3 years after the
eruption of a tooth.  It means that there is an
increased risk of caries all this time. In
addition, the eruption of permanent teeth
coincides with the age when a child begins to
brush his teeth on his own but does not do it
very well.
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Address 10970 Bramalea Road, Unit 6 City
Brampton, ON Zip Code L6R 3X1 Call Us
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