The use of dental floss is also “mandatory” for children from a certain age. It is more important than toothpaste and mouthwash and, even so, many people forget it…<\/p>\n
Dental floss is “mandatory” to comply with complete and efficient oral hygiene, not only for us adults, but also for the little ones in the house.<\/p>\n
We’ll explain it to you.<\/p>\n
Children’s milk teeth, even if they have to fall out, must be cared for as if they were permanent teeth since, among other reasons, infections suffered by the former are transmitted to the latter.<\/p>\n
To achieve this, it is essential that parents take charge of their oral hygiene and brush their teeth until they can do it on their own, until they are 7 or 8 years old.<\/p>\n
But is this enough?<\/p>\n
No, we also need to clean between the teeth and, for this, we need dental floss.<\/p>\n
The key date is between 18 and 24 months. Normally, between 18 and 24 months, the first teeth begin to appear.<\/p>\n
It is at this time that we should start flossing our children’s teeth in the contact areas between their teeth, every night before they go to sleep.<\/p>\n
If you don’t know how to do it very well, ask your dentist, who will teach you the technique and indicate the necessary tools so that you can then instill the habit in your children and they will end up doing it themselves.<\/p>\n
As we have already mentioned, around the age of 7 or 8, children usually have sufficient motor skills to brush their teeth correctly on their own.<\/p>\n
It is at this time that we can also take advantage of the opportunity to pass on the dental floss.<\/p>\n
The ideal is to use a piece of about 30-40 centimeters and roll the ends around the middle fingers of each hand.<\/p>\n
Then, they must place the silk strip on the contact points of their teeth and apply slight pressure to each of them, from top to bottom, inserting it slightly under the gum (about 2 millimeters).<\/p>\n
The movements should be light and soft, and as you clean the spaces, you should gradually release the coiled silk from your fingers.<\/p>\n
When they finish cleaning, recommend that they rinse their mouths with water.<\/p>\n
This routine can be boring for the little ones, which is why it is important to instill it from a very young age and even introduce it as part of a game.<\/p>\n
They can also use a children’s dental floss applicator to motivate them in this task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categoria":[67],"class_list":["post-2786","actualitat","type-actualitat","status-publish","hentry","categoria-salut-bucodental"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicacervera.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualitat\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicacervera.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualitat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicacervera.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualitat"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicacervera.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinicacervera.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinicacervera.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}