In today’s time, the diet of children has changed a lot compared to earlier. Today’s children prefer to eat junk food and fast food, which causes a lot of harm to children and makes them hollow from within. Today, the milk teeth of many children are not falling on time, the milk teeth of some children either fall prematurely, or the teeth fall late. Failure of milk teeth to erupt on time is a big problem in today’s time. Due to this, the new teeth of the child that emerge will not grow evenly and properly. In such situations, the look of the face also gets spoiled and there is difficulty in cleaning the teeth.
Nowadays this problem is found in most of the children. In such a situation, let us know at what age it is appropriate for children to lose their teeth. If there is a problem related to tooth loss, then what precautions should the parents take to improve it?
At what age should children’s milk teeth not fall out?
According to a report, children’s milk teeth should usually start moving at the age of 7 years and all the teeth should fall out by the age of 13 years. In simple words, children’s milk teeth should fall out between the ages of 7-13 years.
Now children whose teeth fall prematurely should contact a doctor. This is because by wearing a space maintainer, the empty space gets filled and the teeth get fixed in a crooked manner. In today’s time, very few people are able to get their wisdom teeth out and in most of the people these teeth come out only partially. In today’s time, most of the people’s teeth emerge incompletely, which causes infection. Due to this, there is problem of pain and swelling in gums and cheeks most of the time.
What is a wisdom tooth?
Wisdom teeth emerge at the age of 18 to 22 years. This is the last tooth of any human being. After this tooth falls out, a person does not get any more teeth.
What precautions should parents take?
Make it a habit for children to gargle after eating.
Make it a habit to brush your teeth at least every morning.
Eat sweets and chocolate as little as possible.
Prevent children from doing habits like thumb sucking or finger chewing.
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Tags: health tips, Lifestyle
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 27, 2024, 11:31 IST