Your child's baby teeth haven't fallen out yet? The problem, known odontologically as "prolonged retention", is increasing in the paediatric dentist's surgery. The term "retained teeth" refers to those teeth that, once their normal eruption time has arrived, do not erupt and remain inside the jaws and the second dentition begins to erupt behind the milk teeth.
The most frequent treatments for impacted teeth are surgical extraction of the impacted tooth, in the case of third molars. Another treatment used is surgical traction, which is preferably performed on canines and incisors. Regular tooth replacement begins, on average, at the age of 6 years.
Dentists point to lack of chewing as one of the possible causes for the resistance of "soft" teeth in the fall.
Some patients simply forgot that the main function of teeth is chewing.
Children today eat little solid food and "swallow food, without chewing". Mothers need to be patient and teach their children to eat, they have such stressful lives that they want to speed up the chewing time. The right thing to do is to chew each food at least 20 times, and to introduce hard foods so that they learn to chew and strengthen their jaws.
