Even the daily use of the highest quality and expensive oral care products, regular visits to the dentist will not help create a Hollywood radiant smile if the child has uneven teeth and an incorrect bite. Often one has to hear from adults that they regretted that as a child, parents lost time and did not put a record, braces or trainers to them. You do not want to hear such words from your child in the future? Then carefully watch the health of his teeth. Having noticed a wrong bite, urgently lead the child to the dentist-orthodontist. Remember that the formation of an occlusion in children lasts from birth to ten to twelve years. The earlier to start correcting the bite in children, the more painless and effective the treatment will be. If in 5-6 years you can use gentle methods of correcting the bite, then in the older age you can not do without special bracket systems.
If the violation of the bite in children, the mother can notice on her own, it is impossible to solve the problem on her own. Even a first-year student from a medical college knows that fixing an occlusion at home is not possible. All that can be done is to look after the plates, braces and kapes made by the orthodontist, and also to maintain oral hygiene.
Correcting the situation
Why an incorrect bite in a child requires treatment - it's no secret. Ignoring the problem will lead in the future to deformation of the jaw, muscle overstrain, the emergence of various diseases of the teeth, gums. In addition, crooked teeth are ugly, and for a teenager this aspect plays a leading role.
Many know how to determine the bite in a child with the help of ordinary plasticine, slightly biting a thin plate. But this is not enough to determine the type of bite. To establish the correct diagnosis, let alone give advice on how to fix the bite in a child, can only the orthodontist.
Prophylactic plates for bite correction are applied at the age of three to six years, if the pathology has an easy form. At the older age, it is recommended to wear trainers, cap and bracket systems. Thus, the use of children by trainers allows you to simultaneously do exercises to correct the bite, removing excess muscle tone, providing a normal position of the tongue. The child is accustomed to breathe properly, swallow.
A more cardinal treatment is to correct the bite by a bracket system of metal, ceramic or lingual type. The last type of braces for teenagers is not recommended, as they require complex care. If such treatment is carried out after wearing plates or a cap, then it will pass easily and painlessly. The times when braces on the teeth of teens caused ridicule, have passed. Today, these delayed squares are evidence that the adolescent is aware of
Important rules
Before installing any systems that correct bite, it is necessary to cure absolutely all diseases of the oral cavity. When braces or plates are already installed, the mother must control how the child observes the rules of wearing and caring for them, because the untreated system easily becomes a breeding ground for pathogens.
The moral aspect is also important. Parents should constantly support a teenager while wearing braces. The child should understand that several months of treatment is not such a high price for a charming smile, which, unlike braces, will remain with him for life.