About emergence of the very first dairy zubik it is necessary to accustom the child to toothbrushing. Care of their health completely lies on the child's parents. At first it is quite possible to do also without toothpaste, it is enough to wipe several times a day the appeared teeth with a special brush for kids.
The first teeth - the first paste
"From six months to three years" - marking on the first toothpaste in the child's life has to be such. Besides, it is important to do it by a special children's toothbrush. It has to have especially soft bristle and allow the kid when he learns to do it, not only to clean teeth, but also to scratch gums. Certainly, the child needs to change a toothbrush regularly: once a month or in one and a half. It parents will be able to save teeth of the kid from an infection.
Since two years, as a rule, the child begins to brush teeth itself, from now on he gets used to more standard toothbrush, and in his life the "From two to twelve" toothpaste appears. The age category is specified approximately as after six years it is desirable to pass to adult toothpaste. As soon as the parent made sure that the child is capable to brush teeth, without swallowing of paste, it is necessary to accustom him to toothbrushing in an adult way. In its new paste there has to be an optimum amount of fluorides. To children's toothpastes fluorine is not added. They do not contain high percent of abrasives and chemical additives.
So, children's toothpaste needs to use until the parent does not make sure that the child is capable not to swallow it. It is desirable to pass to adult paste from 6-7 years as only the paste containing all necessary minerals will be able to provide to the updated children's teeth full protection. However, for achievement of due care for teeth of the kid it is worth consulting with the children's stomatologist. In general, as soon as teeth appeared, parents need to learn the road to the stomatologist very well. Caries is much more difficult to treat, than to maintain health of teeth.
A little more on brushes and pastes
That stomatologists recommend to children special toothpastes there is a certain sense. As with age at children enamel on teeth gets stronger, they gradually pass to firm food, thus, more and more getting closer to adults. Changes both in toothbrushing, and in the structure of a toothbrush, and as a part of paste are connected with it. But the most important difference of children's toothpaste from adult that it is harmless at ingestion. Certainly, children's toothpaste has pleasant taste, moreover, it intentionally do such not to push away the kid from the procedure of toothbrushing, but at the same time the probability of its ingestion increases. Up to two years usually children do not clean teeth, except for use of special brushes exercise machines which are usually recommended by doctors. These brushes exercise machines allow not only to look after teeth, but also to scratch gums, stimulating them.