Preventive health care for children's dental caries

Child dental caries prevention is to check the child's dental condition, prevent and treat children's dental caries in time. There are cavities in the teeth, and when you eat, you will feel the teeth spreading to the dentin. The teeth have obvious cavities and severe pain. The pulp has the opportunity to be necrotic by bacterial infection, and the bacteria may even spread from the pulp through the root to the nearby periodontal tissue, causing the caries to spread to the pulp when inflammation or abscess occurs. Basic Information Specialist classification: oral examination classification: other examination Applicable gender: whether men and women apply fasting: not fasting Tips: Before taboos: Do not eat foods that are easy to stick to sugar. Normal value The surface of the tooth is intact, no cavities, and the teeth are painless. Clinical significance abnormal situation The part of the initial caries occurs in the enamel of the teeth, there is no painful feeling, and the surface of the teeth is usually intact, and no holes are visible to the naked eye. The caries on the adjacent side of the tooth are more difficult to detect. Sometimes you need to take an X-ray film to determine. There are cavities in the teeth, and when you eat, you will feel the teeth spreading to the dentin. The teeth have obvious cavities and severe pain. The pulp has the opportunity to be necrotic by bacterial infection, and the bacteria may even spread from the pulp through the root to the nearby periodontal tissue, causing the caries to spread to the pulp when inflammation or abscess occurs. It can cause apical eye inflammation, causing chronic lesions, causing alveolar bone, mandibular inflammatory, osteomyelitis and the above systemic diseases. Need to check the crowd: growing children and children with toothache. High results may be diseases: caries notes Taboo before the test: Do not eat foods that are easy to stick to sugar. Requirements for inspection: Children may be afraid of inspections, and should be given comfort and guidance before and during the examination. Inspection process Hold the probe with a modified grip pen and use the middle finger or ring finger to lean against the adjacent teeth. Check the main and suspicious teeth first, then check them in a certain order. When examining, first probe the maxillofacial surface and then explore the adjacent face, then probe the buccal tongue. Use force when exploring, and do not use violence. The small bend of the probe can check the adjacent surface of the tooth for damage. Not suitable for the crowd Newborn. Adverse reactions and risks May cause toothache.

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