Teeth are formations located mainly in the oral cavity, which consist of bone tissue. Most vertebrates have them. Rare fish species have teeth even in the throat. The main task of human teeth is to chew food. Predators, in turn, use them to catch and tear the victim.
The child's teeth grow crooked
Very often, parents do not attach importance to the growing teeth of their child. Since most are convinced that milk teeth will fall out and new and even ones will grow in their place. This is a very erroneous opinion!
Younger and more experienced parents must make sure that the child from early childhood learns the proper oral hygiene. It is also important to observe how correctly and evenly the milk teeth grow. Ugly teeth from childhood can remain for life.
Dairy products: benefits for teeth
Most parents do not attach importance to the fact that their child does not like dairy and sour-milk products. They explain this by the fact that if a child does not like it, it means that he does not need to be forced to eat this or that product. Doctors say that weak, brittle, crooked and simply ugly teeth are often the cause of a lack of calcium in the body of a child.
Therefore, they urge parents to teach their child to use milk products by any means. It can even be sweet yogurts, curds with raisins and other dried fruits. For a growing organism, the main thing is to get a full amount of calcium daily.
Causes of crookedly growing teeth
The main reasons why teeth have an unattractive appearance due to curvature:
- Maternal malnutrition during pregnancy. At this time, the child's skeleton and the beginnings of the teeth are formed. Therefore, it is imperative for the mother to supply the body with calcium and other substances that are necessary for the health of the future baby.
- Monotonous nutrition is the main reason why a child has crooked and ugly teeth. Parents need to take care of the nutrition of their child.
- Lack of solid food for the baby. It is extremely important for the child’s growing teeth to strengthen by biting and chewing on solid pieces of food. In cases where the body receives only porridge and mashed potatoes, teeth develop poorly and very often grow crooked.
- The habit of biting your lips. This process has an effect on tooth growth. Scientists have proven that 1.5 g pressure is enough for the tooth to change its position with growth. Therefore, parents also need to ensure that the child does not have the habit of biting their lips. This can lead to the growth of ugly teeth in children.
- Hereditary factor. It happens that a newborn’s jaw is small, and large fangs or incisor teeth are passed on to him by inheritance. They, as a rule, cannot fit in an even row and begin to climb one on top of the other.
Mouth breathing
If the jaw is correctly formed in the baby from birth, the tongue should be closer to the sky. This contributes to the correct formation of the upper teeth and prevents the curvature of the lower. Permanent oral breathing can lead to the fact that the child will have very ugly teeth. All due to the fact that with oral breathing, the tongue falls down, and becomes the cause of a bite in the child. Also, children who suffer from problems with the nasopharynx often have crooked teeth.
Why teeth bend over time
It is believed that crooked ugly teeth can only be obtained in early childhood. This is actually not the case. Over the years, changes occur in the human body. They concern not only organs and systems, but also the appearance of a person. So, teeth become more fragile with age and tend to shift from their usual location. The main reason for this is the subconscious and non-subconscious actions of a person. For example, the constant movement of the jaw, lips and tongue. Specialists also highlight intense pushing the tongue forward while swallowing. Such a movement is capable of shifting the lower row of teeth over time.
The teeth are able to exert pressure on each other, thereby holding the dentition in the desired shape. When a person has one or more teeth, then the neighboring ones begin to lean towards the empty space and slightly shift.
Also, dentists often face the problem of thin ugly teeth. What to do in such cases, no one can reliably say. After all, age-related changes are often not subject to medicine. In such cases, some seek salvation in traditional medicine. But it is also not a panacea for solving this problem.
Photo of ugly teeth with darkened enamel
An unaesthetically looking dentition lies not only in curvature, but also often in shades of tooth enamel. It should usually be white or ivory. The main reasons why it darkens or from birth has a gray or yellow tint:
- Failure to comply with oral hygiene. Because of this, small residues of food products and pathogenic microorganisms accumulate on the surface of the teeth. This shell partially overlaps the natural color of the teeth, and they look yellow or grayish.
- Bad habits. The main one is smoking. According to statistics, more than 80% of smokers have ugly yellow or brown teeth. They turn brown due to the high tar concentration in cigarettes. They are deposited on the surface of the teeth, giving them a brown tint, then color.
- Black tea, coffee, chocolate. Abuse of these products can also lead to darkening of tooth enamel. So, after the whitening procedure, dentists recommend completely excluding coffee, chocolates and strong black tea from the diet.
Today, there are many ways that help millions of people get a snow-white smile and thereby get rid of complexes of imperfection.