Children Check-ups Throughout Their Ages – Part 3 – 7-11 years old
This stage is also called the mixed dentition stage. Baby teeth and adult teeth are combined to form a stable bite until the next stage of adult teeth start to come through. This lasts about 3 years.
This stage has three baby teeth for each quadrant of the bite, i.e. a baby tooth canine and two baby teeth molars. The rest are permanent teeth: central and lateral incisors and the six year old molars.
The permanent teeth start forming under the baby canine and the two baby molars as well as the 12 year old (or second molar) in the bone.
The main areas to watch are:
- Diet considerations in relation to causing decay from a high sugar diet and cleaning habits.
- Mouth breathing due to nasal blockages sometimes due to a high palate.
- Crossbites where the bite dose not line and shifts to one side and may need early intervention.
- Jaw development problems which may need orthodontic corrections.
- Snoring can cause problems in development too.
- Sometimes there are no permanent teeth under the baby tooth and this is called congenitally absent (missing) teeth.
This is just to name a few things that need to be checked in the growing child.
Then the baby teeth start to be lost about 9 years to 12 years.
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Children Check-ups Throughout Their Ages – Part 4 – 12-18 years old