Perhaps the first thing that moms need to know about the teeth of their child is their name, since in conversation with a pediatrician these terms will sound very often. Therefore, Mom needs to be a bit in the know to understand the doctor.
Usually, the front teeth first appear in the child - first the upper teeth, then the lower ones. Their dentists are called the central incisors , and they usually cut through at the age of 6-7 months (we will talk about the timing of the eruption a little later). After that, their "neighbors" appear - lateral incisors . Then the order is slightly broken, the fangs that follow the lateral incisors will be empty, but the first molars will appear - the "neighbors" of the fangs. " After the first molars fangs grow - usually this occurs at the age of one and a half years, although all this is strictly individual. After them, the baby's mouth will be replenished with the second molars , which will be more problematic for the mother to discover, since the second molars are already safely hidden in the depth of the mouth, and they can not be seen with a smile. However, attentive parents usually check the child's teeth once a week, and are able to detect "replenishment". By the way, for those who do not know about the concept of "molar", I explain: this is the root tooth.
What do you need to know the mother who still only has her baby in the tummy, about his teeth? As I have already said, already during the period of pregnancy and intrauterine development of crumbs, its milk teeth begin to form. And the connection between the way the pregnancy went on and the way it affects the baby's teeth is obvious and strong. And here you need to know very clearly your mother that her food should be saturated with vitamins and minerals, as the mineral salts in her baby's future teeth begin to be debugged now, and if they are not enough, the baby's teeth will not be strong enough either.
But this does not mean that the deposition of mineral salts in the teeth of a child ends after it is born and ceases to receive the necessary elements from the mother's body. In fact, this stage of formation lasts until the moment when the tooth crown appears from the gum.
To know about dairy teeth, it is also necessary that after the tooth has "born", it comes a stage of physiological tranquility, which usually lasts about three years. After this, there are some changes in the structure of the milk teeth: for example, they shorten and begin to dissolve their roots, the tooth ceases to be immobile, the child can easily move his finger.
What features of teeth do you need to know about your mother? They usually have a much smaller size than the root ones, so if in the row of milk teeth you observed with grief the empty lumens, then after their fall, the roots can grow even and close to each other. In the teeth of milk and enamel, and dentin is much thinner than in molars, so they quickly break down and deteriorate. Milk teeth are not rich in mineral elements, which also provokes a high degree of brittleness of teeth. The danger of triggering the state of infant teeth is threatened by the fact that they can get infected and develop much faster than in the indigenous ones.
Now let's talk about the order in which teeth usually erupt. There is a definite formula by which the order of dentition is calculated. However, all this is very, very individual, so if a neighbor's boy of the same age has 6 teeth and you do not have one, this is not a cause for concern, because all children's dentists claim that the time difference in the time frame is 6 months, compared to tabular counts, is the norm.
So, tabular data say that in 6-7 months the child should have lower incisors (2 pieces), at 8-9 months the upper two incisors erupt, at 10 months the upper lateral incisors appear, and by the year the mouth is decorated with the lower lateral incisors. In 12-15 months, the first indigenous ones come out, then the fangs, and in 21-24 months the second radical ones. By the age of two, the child should have two dozen teeth (if it grows and develops "tabular"). But if there are only 15 of them, this is not a reason to think that the child is ill or that it is necessary to immediately smear his gum with gels in the hope that new teeth will grow.
If you do not trust the general formula for determining the number of teeth, then you can use an individual formula of counting that takes into account your child's age.
In order to determine how many teeth must be in a child at one or another age, you need to take the age of the crumb (calculated by months, that is, if the child is 1, 5 years, then we translate it at 18 months) and subtract from it 4. For this formula, in a year and a half a child should be 18-4 = 14 teeth.
Many mothers are very worried when it is discovered that the teeth of their children grow in an "improper" order - but this is not at all an excuse for panic, we should never forget that each of us has our own way of development, and our kids are no exception .
As for the teeth of the indigenous, they also have a certain sequence of eruption, and in boys and girls these indicators are slightly different.
Thus, in boys, the central incisors begin to erupt at 5, 8 years, and finish at 7, 5 years; the period of appearance of lateral incisors lasts from 6 to 8 years; canines - from 9, 5 to 12, 5; the first premolars - from 8, 5 to 11; second - from 8, 5 to 12, 5; the first molars - from 5, 5 to 7, 5 years, the second molars - from 10, 5 to 13 years.
In girls, on average, molar teeth appear with a difference of six months, and earlier than in boys.
This information you need to know every mom, because, knowing everything about the teeth of her child, you can avoid problems with them in a more adult age.