How to know if the child has cavities

Symptoms and signs that indicate that the child has cavities

The cavity is a hole that is made in a tooth and, if untreated, becomes larger and deeper with the passage of time. This hole is usually made because of plaque that substance made up of germs that causes tooth decay. It usually happens that bacteria that are in the mouth create acids that usually attack the enamel when the plaque adheres to the tooth.

Adults immediately realize that a tooth or tooth hurts and we know that feeling of pain that causes tooth decay, but how can we recognize that the child has tooth decay?

Tips to detect if the child has cavities

Children need strong and healthy teeth to bite and chew food, talk and have a beautiful smile. When they have tooth decay, everything becomes difficult. If the child complains of pain in a tooth or tooth, observe these changes:

– When the pain worsens after eating sweet, cold or hot food

– Before an exploration, we discover a visible hole in the tooth

– The color of the enamel changes and becomes dark or yellowish

– The enamel has detached from the tooth.

Before one or more of these symptoms it is important to take the child to the dentist, even if the affected teeth are made of milk. And, it is almost more important to cure a tooth decay in a milk tooth than in a definitive one because in the milk tooth comes the germ of the definitive tooth. Caries is formed by bacteria, which get inside the tooth, cross the root of the storm and can affect the definitive.

Occasionally, tooth decay does not hurt, but it does have some other symptoms, so in the same way, the child has to visit the dentist.

The dentist will proceed to clean the tooth and control the infection. In many cases, the placement of a filling or endodontic will be necessary if the complication is greater.

How tooth decay appears in children”s teeth

Considering that caries is caused by bacteria that colonize the mouth, it can be said that caries appears by the proliferation of these bacteria as well as by a genetic factor. It is also caused by the constant presence of sweets, sugars, which emit an acid that demineralizes the tooth layer. When that acid is introduced by the tooth enamel, the bacteria penetrate and alter the structure of the tooth. We call that decay.