The key to practicing long-term dental health and minimizing the likelihood of problems developing is to know when you should take your children to appointments and to do your best to stick to this schedule. These are a few of the milestones for your children’s teeth and when they need to see a dentist:
- Pre-teeth dental care: For the first six months of their lives, a child’s teeth are still developing in their gums. The key to dental care at this early stage is to provide your children with a healthy diet.
- Their first teeth: As soon as your children’s teeth come in, visit a pediatric dentist for an initial screening and to develop a schedule to monitor your children’s tooth development. Plan for visits roughly once every six months. Children’s primary teeth start to grow at about six months old, and permanent teeth start coming in at about 6 years old.
- Their permanent teeth: The baby teeth fall out and the permanent teeth replace them when children are 6 to 11 years old. In addition to routine dental exams, your children should be brushing their own teeth at this point.
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