Dental health characteristics of young children

"Infants" refers specifically to the period of pre-school children, China provides 6-year-old to school age. Infant characteristics: (1) the infant's brain, intelligence is not developed enough, hand skills are not perfect, do not have the ability to consciously practice oral hygiene, brushing parents need help, guidance, supervision. ② infant is in a stage of growth and development, to strengthen nutrition has an important significance for human life and lay a good nutritional foundation. (3) infants and young children will be experiencing the eruption of deciduous teeth early stage of eruption of deciduous teeth of primary dentition is complete (about 2 and a half years old, all 20 primary teeth eruption. The ④ infants caries is characterized by more than two early in the morning, according to the Shanghai City Appearance 1995 survey , 1 year old and 6 caries rates were 8.33% or 88.7% (World Health Organization 2000 50% of 5-6 year-old children with caries) to do a good job in the oral health of infants and young children should be do the following:
(1) strengthening infant and child nutrition requires, first breast-feeding. Breast milk is the best natural food, it has more calories and various nutrients for the baby's needs and the ability to digest, as well as enzymes and antibodies, more conducive to baby digestion, absorption, resistance to disease. Direct breastfeeding is both convenient and Health Economics. Followed by feeding method and time should pay attention to. Within 3 months after birth, breast-feeding every 3h, after every 4h, do not see the baby crying, the nipple will be empty pacifier into the baby's mouth to coax the baby, because the former will baby continuous sucking, both exhaustion, muscle shrinking because of the mouth, jaw growth restriction; the latter constantly inhaled a lot of air, and will be oppressed on the palate, the palate becomes too much too narrow, and even cause inflammation of the gums. 

 Also note that the feeding posture, left and right rotation feeding, so as not to affect the growth and development of infants and maxillofacial. Due to long-term use of sugary bottle feeding, especially when to sleep, when asleep in the mouth, easy to cause the milk incisors and the first deciduous teeth caries, have claimed that this is the "bottle caries", the last point, as soon as possible let the children practice chewing, chewing jaw physiological stimulation, can promote bone growth, exercise muscle function.