We know how much you love and care for your little ones. A parent-child relationship is the most precious bond. It nurtures the complete physical, emotional and social development of a child.
Despite that, parents often fail to bring to their focus, their child’s exacting health care needs, especially their oral health.
Dr. Rajat Sachdeva, the best dentist in Ashok Vihar, urges you to divert your attention to those pearly whites and care for them during the initial few years of your child’s life. This will lead to tremendous benefits for your child’s future health.
So, if you’re planning on investing somewhere, we suggest you try investing in your child’s dental and overall health!
Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental Clinic in Ashok Vihar aims to provide the best counseling to the parents to achieve optimal oral hygiene and the general health of their children.
Busting those milk tooth myths!
Throughout his experience of over a decade, Dr. Sachdeva, has come across many unrealistic myths related to milk teeth. For example, they are not considered as important as permanent teeth, by most parents.
Most people have this notion that “milk teeth are eventually going to fall off and shall be replaced by a new set of teeth. Thus, need no maintenance or treatment”.
However, Dr. Sachdeva, a well-known doctor in Ashok Vihar, emphasizes how crucial these primary or milk teeth are. Not only do these teeth impact your child’s oral health but influence his / her physical, social as well as emotional well-being.
Parents need to take care of their child’s oral health right from the beginning.
Why are milk teeth important?
- Milk teeth facilitate a proper guiding path to the succedaneous teeth during their eruption and accommodate for permanent teeth, so that they erupt and acquire the correct position, thereby maintaining the health of the jaws.
- Milk teeth assist a child in chewing, biting, and grinding on his foods, hence, encompassing all the essential dietary products like raw and fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, whole wheat bread, chicken, fish, and meat.
Milk teeth help the child to speak clearly, by supporting the lips, the tongue, and the cheeks, to formulate proper and clear words.
Dr. Rajat Sachdeva requests all parents to drop that callous attitude and start caring for their young one’s milk teeth and overall oral health due to the abovementioned reasons.
Primary teeth – “caution: handle with care”
Primary or milk teeth deserve to get care in a much similar way as permanent teeth. Various reasons in support of the statement are:
- Guiding Force
Most eminently, these primary teeth serve as a foundation for the permanent teeth to be established in the jaws.
Permanent teeth would not be able to erupt properly, into their desired positions, if these primary teeth won’t make and retain space for them, in the child’s mouth.
These newly erupting adult teeth exert pressure through the gum line. They erupt by-passing through the milk teeth, which are already in place.
Thereby, preventing malalignment of teeth, such as crowding, or overlapping.
If your child loses a milk tooth before its expected shed-time, either due to decay or any other cause, the neighboring teeth tend to drift and occupy that space created. This hampers proper eruption of the underlying permanent tooth, leading to misalignment of teeth.
- Tooth Health
The health of permanent teeth also depends on the teeth that they’re going to replace, as they lie between the roots of the milk teeth.
If a milk tooth is cavitated or decayed, it is likely for the decay-causing bacteria to spread to the underlying, erupting permanent teeth, through the thin outer walls of the primary tooth.
If left untreated, the milk tooth decay can progress into an infection or abscess. This obstructs the development of the young permanent tooth beneath it.
Hence, Dr. Sachdeva, who runs a dental clinic in Ashok Vihar, suggests you immediately visit your child’s dentist to prevent the spread of decay from milk teeth to permanent teeth. Also, to halt the process of conversion into a serious infection.
- Nutritional Value
Again emphasizing, how important these primary teeth are to fulfill the nutritional requirements of your child’s body.
These baby teeth help your child to chew and bite effectively, thereby improving both their oral and overall health.
If a child’s chewing ability gets deranged due to cavities or trauma affecting the jaw joint or an early loss of teeth, he or she may become a victim of nutritional deficiencies.
- Speech Development
Formulating words correctly, right from the speech onset, is essentially useful in the development of good speech patterns in the child.
Teeth (milk/adult), gums, lips, and cheeks are all interconnected. They work in harmony during word formation and speech implementation.
Teeth also help to maintain and sustain the cheek muscles in their functioning. All of this helps to keep speech impairments at bay!
- Morale booster
Healthy milk teeth pave the way for an everlasting healthy smile.
A lovely smile is enough to boost up a child’s confidence and self-esteem.
While, a child who’s suffering from dental image issues, such as decayed teeth or mal-aligned teeth, significantly lags in all aspects of life, be it academics, sports, or social relationships.
Such children often tend to grow into introverted adults, who develop social anxiety, and hence, the parents must help their child overcome low confidence and regain their self-esteem by timely seeking a pediatric dentist’s opinion and undergoing necessary treatments and smile makeovers.
You can visit Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental Aesthetic and Implant Center, Ashok Vihar, Delhi, or book an appointment at drrajatsachdeva@gmail.com or call at +91 9818894041.
