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Children are very active and injury to your child’s teeth are very important and in preventing any injury.  Mouth guards should be worn in athletic events.  If a tooth is knocked out, the tooth should be placed either in milk or in your child’s mouth and rushed to the dentist immediately because a lot of times these teeth can be saved by placing them back in.    

Sealants are a good idea for adult teeth that are first coming in.  A lot of these teeth have large grooves in them.  And before these teeth decay and rot away, your dentist can clean out these areas and place a sealant right on top of it that won’t allow food and bacteria to get in the area and keep the evasiveness of the procedures at a bare minimum.

Baby teeth are important to maintain in a child’s mouth because what they do is they hold a space for the adult teeth to come in.  If those teeth are rotted out or decayed too early, or have to be removed, it forces them to shift and they don’t hold the spaces for the adult teeth.  So the adult teeth will come in positions that possibly will have to be moved later with braces.  Also, a lot of people don’t realize that the front teeth especially on the top have a lot to do with the way a child speaks and without those teeth you may slow down his development as far as speaking goes.  Besides just his ability to speak, and talk, it also has a huge effect on a child’s self confidence.  If he is unable to speak, teachers may think that he is unable to learn properly and he may be afraid to participate in class and have much more difficulty with certain letters when he is speaking.  Also, the way he is viewed by the child’s friends, has an impact on his self worth. 

Baby teeth are important in that they act as placeholders for the adult teeth that follow.  If baby teeth are damaged, decayed or injured, the adult teeth may not align properly.  When that happens, the adult teeth may have to be corrected by the use of braces.  So that is it in a nutshell.  Baby teeth act as placeholders.