Children are a unique person, he was not a small adult. But he is a private figure who is in a period of growth both physically, mentally and intellectually. They experienced various phases in its development, where at age 2 to 5 years are the most active phase, especially on the brain development of children, therefore, the period known as the golden boy or golden age.
In providing education to the child's physical health is often parents and teachers only limit on the health of the body only. Dental health education (Dental Health Education) is often a topic that received less attention both at home and school.
There are several reasons why parents are often paying less attention to hygiene and dental health of children. The reason most commonly found are still many parents who think that the teeth in children are milk teeth, so do not care because later will also be replaced by permanent teeth. When in fact precisely at the time of the child's milk teeth should begin dajarkan to maintain cleanliness and health giginya.Karena following reasons:
1. During the milk teeth, permanent tooth formation is happening inside the bone. So if there is severe damage to milk teeth can interfere with the formation of their permanent teeth. This could result in his permanent teeth grow abnormally.
2. The mouth is the main door of entry of food into the stomach. The mouth is the first location of where the food in the digestive process. If an interruption in the mouth it will interfere with the smooth process of digestion.
3. Infections that occur on the teeth and mouth can affect the health of organs in the body like heart, lungs, kidneys, etc.. Because the infection in the mouth can spread into the organs of the so-called focal infection.
4. Oral infection that affects children will make the children become lazy on the move and will interfere with their learning process.
Seeing these reasons, it is currently intensively some particular school dental health education for their students. There are even schools that make dental health education along with general health education as part of school curriculum.
For parents at home dental health education should have started since the first tooth in the mouth anak.Bagaimana way?
That is to always clean your child's teeth after each finished drink milk or eat. No need to use toothbrush, but it can be done using a soft gauze pads soaked with warm water.Looks like just an ordinary treatment, but in fact it gives an incredible new experience in children. When mothers clean their teeth with a soft cloth soaked in warm water, children feel that the activities of cleaning teeth is a fun activity and it will be recorded in the memory anak.Dampaknya, when children will be introduced with a toothbrush at the age of 1 year there will be no complaints of children not want to brush my teeth for fear of seeing a toothbrush to be inserted in their mouths.
When the child was two years old, the number of teeth in the mouth is full of twenty pieces. Begin teaching children to brush their own teeth and parents keep a watch.When they are able to gargle, may be added to toothpaste. Invite your child to eat vegetables plain or fruit and control of sweet foods they consume. Not a child should not eat foods that are sweet because it their favorite food. Only parents need to control the number or kinds of sweet foods they eat.
Age of two years is an appropriate age for children to learn about the dentist. Invite your child to the dental clinic to check their teeth, although there has been no complaint.Because it could have been there a small hole in the teeth of children who do not feel them but had to be done for dental treatment.
Make dental health education as an enjoyable experience for children. Because then we as parents would not scream again get kids to brush teeth in the shower in the morning and God willing we will not experience the midnight wake up because the child was crying because her teeth hurt. And more importantly, the child's growth process is not disrupted by the child's toothache.
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