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Baby teeth are the primary teeth that appear within your child’s mouth from around the age of six months old.
Although only a temporary factor in the long term composition of your baby’s mouth, they are never the less, an important stage in the growth of the child and as such, proper oral hygiene should be maintained from the moment they appear. Not only will this serve to keep the child’s mouth healthy from the off set, and therefore minimise any risk of problems to the gums later on, it also allows the child to learn from the youngest age, the importance and regularity with which oral hygiene should be approached.
It is important for the parent to be aware of the importance of their child’s primary teeth and to appreciate the consequences of not implementing rigorous hygiene from the very beginning.
Baby teeth are not immune to tooth decay and in spite of their temporary nature, they are of fundamental importance in the health and development of the surrounding gum and permanent teeth.
At age six most children have ample dexterity to start developing responsibility for his or her own oral hygiene, nonetheless, parents should check behind their child’s effort.
At age six, generally baby teeth start to be lost and replaced by erupting adult teeth. The exfoliation of baby teeth progresses throughout the life of a child until about age 13 when usually all of the baby teeth have been lost and replaced by adult teeth.
Baby teeth serve many important functions for a developing child: chewing function and efficiency, appearance and self esteem, speech, enunciation and language development, and they hold a space in the mouth for the subsequent eruption of eventual adult teeth.
Primary teeth essentially allow the adult teeth to find their way through the gum in the correct fashion, and as such, act as a guide for the final development of the mouth. For this reason, the importance of the care and upkeep of baby teeth should not be overlooked.
Here at our dental practice in Sacramento, we pride ourselves on looking after you and your whole family with the utmost care and attention to detail. It is because we want to see you go through life, free from the trauma of dental problems, from childhood through to your later years that we will always provide you with the necessary help and advice needed for your optimum dental health.
Dr Monica Crooks is a dentist in the Sacramento area with a special interest in family dentistry. For more information please visit http://www.familydentistsacramento.net
During pregnancy it is crucial that your body has the necessary chemical elements, strength, and stamina for you to stay healthy. A diet healthy pregnancy means you will have fewer problems during your pregnancy and give birth to a healthy baby.
You’d be surprised to discover that a diet healthy pregnancy is more likely to occur elsewhere then in affluent developed societies where there are no mentors to guide you through pregnancy and every kind of food imaginable is available. It’s a difficult road to know what you should eat,
The ideal diet healthy pregnancy is balance whole foods which will provide you with all the critical nutrients that you need. After all you aren’t just feeding yourself you are growing a baby and that requires a lot of energy especially in the very early months when cell division is really intense. Legumes such as beans, nuts, peas, and lentils, as well as whole grains such as rice, rye, barley, buckwheat, oats, and wheat are all foods that are needed to grow healthy baby’s and keep mom healthy.
Your ideal diet healthy pregnancy will have your lunch packed with high protein foods because your body is much better at digesting and processing protein earlier in the day and not at night.
A diet healthy pregnancy that reaches those last months requires calcium to be released from you bones to the baby so it’s a smart idea to increase your dairy, greens, soy, and seaweed. If those don’t seem appealing to you then you can always take nutritional supplements. Raspberry leaf tea is great for softening the cervix in the last few months in preparation for the birth. It will also stimulate milk growth.
A dietary healthy pregnancy should also include some nutritional supplements. At least that’s what the experts say. A balance food diet can go a long way to meeting nutritional needs but eating correctly everyday only happens in a perfect world. In fact most pregnant women would agree there are days you just don’t want to eat and there are days when you only want certain foods and that’s just part of being pregnant so a supplement is just a wise idea.
So what type of supplements should a diet healthy pregnancy include?
Iron is a must and best if it can be found in natural foods. However you don’ need large amounts of iron because it can cause liver damage and separation of the placenta. Folic acid aid in cell division in early pregnancy reducing the risk of the fetus becoming damaged. Supplements are not necessary if a proper diet is followed because there is ample folic acid in nuts, dairy, and whole grains. A reduction in calcium can cause muscles to cramp to ensure you are getting a proper dosage of calcium to reduce the occurrence.
A diet healthy pregnancy means you and your baby will be less stressed and a lot happier. It means you can relax knowing you are doing everything possible to make sure your baby is healthy and born with all the benefits of being healthy.
A photo slideshow of my belly from 9 weeks to 32 weeks.
