"Drink milk to grow taller", I believe that many parents will let their children drink a glass of milk every morning, saying that they can supplement calcium and grow taller. Milk is a nutritious food that contains calcium, phosphorus, vitamins A, D and fluoride, which are beneficial to the human body, and play an important role in the formation of bones and teeth. However, if you drink milk in the wrong way, it may also cause damage to your teeth. Especially in infancy, many novice mothers sleep without rinsing their children's mouths after drinking milk, but they don't know that plaque has already quietly accumulated. So today, let's take stock of how to drink milk correctly to protect your teeth.
First, let's take a look at the effects of the ingredients in milk on your teeth. Ingredients such as calcium, phosphorus, and fluoride in milk can help strengthen the hardness and acid resistance of your teeth, which can play a role in protecting your teeth. Vitamin D contained in milk can promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, further enhancing the health of teeth. Secondly, the casein in milk can also limit the deposition of inorganic salts in tooth enamel, reducing the risk of tooth decay.
Then milk will reduce tooth decay, how can it hurt teeth?
In fact, the main thing is that the way of drinking milk is not right. For example, if you use a straw when drinking milk, it will let the milk go directly into the throat, and it will not be chewed and secreted by the mouth, which will make the milk more acidic, and thus cause more damage to the teeth. Another example is that children don't want to drink milk, but their mothers are forced to drink it, and they drink it for too long, which makes the milk remaining in the mouth a breeding ground for oral bacteria, which leads to oral problems such as tooth decay and gingivitis. Or if you don't rinse your mouth in time after drinking milk, bacteria can accumulate and damage your teeth.
3 6-year-old children are in the preschool and are in the period of high incidence of caries in primary teeth.
Children who do not gargle properly and tend to drink milk at night can cause plaque to accumulate on the surface of their teeth for a longer time, which can lead to tooth decay if they do not apply fluoride or have pit and fissure sealing.
Therefore, regarding children drinking milk before going to bed, we must drink a little boiled water after drinking milk, which can play a flushing role, and then the time to drink milk can be a little earlier with the age of young children.
6 years old 12 years old is the replacement period of primary permanent teeth.
From the perspective of oral health, supplementing nutrition through drinking milk can promote the growth and development of children's jaws and dental arches, establish a good occlusal relationship between permanent teeth, and also play an important role in preventing irregular dentition and dental caries. "The Chinese Nutrition Society recommends drinking 300 ml of milk per day.
Of course, in addition to liquid milk, other milk products, including cheese, yogurt, chewable milk tablets are also good nutrition**, parents should choose the right milk source according to children's taste preferences, eating habits, etc. And choose the right way to drink milk. The best way is to drink it straight. Rinse your mouth promptly after drinking milk. Remember that after drinking milk, rinse your mouth with water in time, or chew a piece of gum to help saliva secretion and reduce the growth of bacteria in your mouth.
In conclusion, drinking milk itself does not harm your teeth, mainly depending on how and how often you drink it. Do a good job of oral cleaning, regular oral health, and dental health starts from the baby.