Dental care

Keeping Healthy Teeth for a Lifetime

Knowing how to care for one’s teeth from the moment the first baby tooth arrives will help prevent problems as they age. This means brushing and flossing each day and going for routine dental visits. The pay-off is a beautiful smile that lasts a lifetime.


Young Children

People are born with their first teeth hidden beneath the gums. From the first day they poke through, baby teeth need special care. It will be a while before a child’s toothbrush and paste can be used. For now a wet washcloth will do the trick. Once they are old enough, they need to be taught how to correctly use a brush and paste on their own.


Never let a baby fall asleep with a bottle. The milk or juice can lead to serious issues such as baby bottle tooth decay. As they grow, they need to be encouraged to eat snacks that are low in sugar and avoid chewy, sticky candies.


Teens

By the time they are teens they should be in the habit of going for regular check-ups to their family’s dentist. One can find a reliable Brooklyn dentist like Ronald I. Teichman, D.D.S. by researching online or asking friends and family for recommendations.


Teens who take good care of their teeth will have a beautiful smile, pleasant breath, and much fewer cavities than those who don’t. Teens need to brush with fluoride toothpaste twice a day and floss once each day. Smoking and chewing tobacco will stain the teeth and can cause cancer so these activities should be avoided completely. When playing sports, proper head gear will keep the teeth protected.


Grown-ups

Continued care of the teeth into adulthood can help one avoid painful gums, tooth loss, and other serious issues. Brushing twice a day along with flossing needs to continue, and six month check-ups with the dentist should not be skipped.


Between dental visits an adult can check the inside of their mouth for themselves. Any irritated gums, sores that aren’t healing, or other unusual changes can be discussed with the dentist. Serious concerns should be looked at immediately by a professional.


It is easy to keep a beautiful smile for a lifetime with a little special care. Brush and floss daily and visit a dentist every six months for a routine check-up.

Tooth collection box

I don't know about you but I have tooth collection box for my son. It is actually a pil box, which I use paper to wrap my son's tooth and I label the date on when he's losing his tooth.

No kidding just last Saturday morning, he told me that he lose the gum tooth. He wasn't in pain but plenty of blood on his hand and tooth. It was a sharp bottom tooth like Mammee Monster. Son knows that I have collection his falling tooth and quickly asked me to wrap it up and place in box.

Sometimes he would request to show him the tooth collection box so he can see and read about his tooth falling experience.

What else could a mother be collecting beside his baby's dried baby umbilical cord.

This may sound like a weird collection.

What is your favourite collection?

Left knee injury

Not long ago, I wrote about my childhood scar about my knee. This morning my son fell down as he was running. It hurt so much that he couldn't bear the pain, both knee with cuts and bloody. Dear said bring him over to clinic nearby to let doctor treat him.

Hope he remembers that don't run, no matter the distance is short or long. 

Look at his scar reminds me of my scar, same left leg but different incidents. Mine was fall down while running down the hill to chase the school bus.

He's lucky he gets to see doctor, during my childhood I forgotten if I saw doctor. But I remembered having my left knee injury over and over again same spot when it's almost recovered. I can even touch my own flesh, it was skin deep injury.

Toothless mommy

This maybe gross but it is true my mom no longer having any teeth, she is only using faux teeth to help her to chew the food. Recently I found out that there are more teeth for her as dentist need to extract all her tooth. The faux teeth are not useful anymore it keeps coming out of her mouth. She says that she eats half way the faux teeth comes out, first she would use the gum but glue to her them but it is not useful anymore.

My son saw the faux teeth and in the night before he fall asleep he keeps asking me how to grow back the teeth. He asks is it can eat vegetables, meats to help the teeth grow back.

Mommy is born in the year of Tiger, I would say my mom is also toothless Tiger now.

I can never forget the day I saw her with bad teeth at the bottom of her mouth, I cannot believe that the bad teeth had spread so fast to other teeth making her teeth worsen. Mommy loves drinking 3 in 1 white coffee.

My mom and grandmother in same situation both are toothless. My grandmother is blind living in old folks home in Cheras.