Poor tooth care could leave children needing dental implants to prevent their adult teeth from becoming crowded.
Damage to children’s teeth could lead to a need for dental implants in order to prevent long-term negative effects on their mouths.
The Morung Express reports that children’s teeth naturally fall out between the ages of around six and 12.
However, they must still be well maintained to avoid lasting damage to the child’s mouth.
This is because they provide the space for the adult teeth to grow into – and must therefore only fall out when the adult tooth is ready to grow through.
Should they fall out early, the publication warns that the gap can close up, meaning the adult teeth will appear crowded when they grow through.
Dental implants could be one way to combat this, filling the gap until the adult tooth can appear.
Meanwhile, US News & World Report recently reported that babies’ teeth should be brushed as soon as they begin to grow through, in order to avoid tooth decay due to their consumption of sweet milk, baby formula or juice.