Almost every baby begins to get their milk teeth even before he turns one year old. A few years later - at the age of five or six, the child begins a serious and responsible period, when they are replaced by permanent ones. It is already known that children's milk teeth also have roots, but the latter at some point begin to gradually dissolve.
Unfortunately, there are situations in which the extraction of milk teeth in a child can occur long before they should fall out on their own.
Change milk teeth with permanent teeth
Children's milk teeth begin to change at about 5-6 years old, and this continues until the age of twelve. After the roots of milk teeth dissolve, the teeth become loose and fall out. The permanent tooth, which begins to grow, gradually pushes the milk tooth out of the socket.
In most casesthe baby's teeth will change in the same order in which they appeared at the very beginning. It happens that this process is a little delayed, but this cannot be considered a pathology. But if a year has passed and a new tooth has not grown in the vacated place, then you should take the baby to the dentist.
Foreseeing ahead
Thanks to milk teeth, the child has a normal, proper development of the facial skeleton and masticatory muscles. In addition, thanks to these first teeth, there is room for the permanent teeth to erupt without any anomalies. Thanks to milk teeth, the location in the oral cavity of permanent teeth is determined and the balance of space is maintained.
That's why parents should try to keep baby teeth until the time when they begin to fall out on their own. This is not difficult, because it is enough just to carefully monitor the he alth of the baby's oral cavity, provide good nutrition and constant hygiene of the child's teeth.
But it also happens that it is necessary to apply the removal of milk teeth in a child.
Why is it necessary to delete? Required readings
The ideal is the option in which each milk tooth falls out on its own. This is not always the case and not for all babies. Sometimes the doctor prescribes such a procedure - the removal of milk teeth in children. Indications for it can be very different:
- the tooth was injured (crack, chip, fracture);
- the tooth is already loose, but still does not fall out,baby feels uncomfortable;
- the tooth is so destroyed by caries that restoration is impossible;
- the tooth should fall out by all due dates, and according to the picture, the root has already resolved;
- the permanent tooth is already gradually erupting, but the milk one still does not fall out…
Features of removal of milk teeth
Children's baby teeth should be removed by a specialist completely differently than permanent ones. The reason is simple: in babies, the jaw grows, the bite is mixed and there are rudiments of molars. This is a simple manipulation, but special care is needed: the baby has very thin walls of the alveoli, and the divergence of the roots is pronounced.
If the doctor who removes milk teeth in a child is inaccurate and inattentive, then by his actions he may well provoke the formation of a bone scar in the hole of the tooth or even atrophy of the alveolar margin. That is why a child specialist should be chosen with special attention, because the bite, the convenience of chewing the child in the future will depend on his work in the first years of a baby’s life.
Parents should be quite demanding of the doctor when he performs the extraction of milk teeth in children. The consequences can be very different. If these changes (which were discussed in the previous paragraph) happen, then the permanent teeth of the babies will erupt with difficulty. If the growth zones of new teeth are injured, the normal growth of the jaws will be disturbed, and due to the fact that the distribution of the load willuneven, chewing activity will gradually decrease.
Are there nerves in baby teeth?
So, we figured out that the removal of milk teeth in a child is a procedure necessary only under certain conditions. Dentists make such a decision when it is no longer possible to save the tooth. But such a radical solution is not always required. There is another option, in which the milk tooth remains in place.
At the root of the baby's tooth is a bundle of nerve endings - the pulp, which is usually called the dental nerve. It is she who is responsible for how the tooth reacts to an external stimulus. After the removal of the nerve, the mineralization of the tooth and its blood supply cease, as a result of which it gradually begins to be exposed to external factors.
Removal of a nerve on a milk tooth in a child is performed if pulpitis develops in a toddler or the area affected by caries is too large, and the tooth is badly damaged.
Silver teeth
Since the process of caries is very difficult to stop, for kids (so as not to scare them and discourage them from visiting the dental office in the future), doctors use the silvering procedure. In this case, a special composition is used, which includes fluorine and a solution of silver nitrate. With this solution, the doctor treats damaged enamel. The result of the procedure is the formation of a protective film, due to which the tooth-destroying processes that last for some time are suspended.
If parents face a dilemma: deletea nerve in a milk tooth or silvering, experts will most likely advise the second option. The microcrystals formed during this procedure provide protection that keeps bacteria away from the baby's tooth.
This method was invented specifically for the smallest patients who still cannot stand drilling with a drill, and this method does not require any special perseverance. On the other hand, this is a safe way, because silver is non-toxic and therefore non-hazardous material.
The disadvantages of this procedure include a change in the color of the tooth enamel from white to black (after several treatments) and the fact that it is performed only in the initial stages of caries.
