Why Your Toddler’s Breath Smells, and What to Do Occasional bad breath is completely normal, especially in the morning or after certain foods. What is worth investigating is breath that stays strong all day and does not improve after brushing; the cause is almost always bacteria sitting somewhere a toothbrush is not reaching, and the […]
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What Pacifier Teeth Really Look Like, and How to Fix Them Pacifier teeth is the term for a bite changed by long-term sucking on a pacifier: front teeth that do not meet, a narrower upper jaw, or teeth pushed forward. It is not automatic. Whether it happens depends on how long, how often, and how
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Signs Your Toddler’s 2 Year Molars Are Coming In and What Helps Second molars, known as 2 year molars, are the last of the twenty baby teeth to come in, and the hardest. They typically arrive between 23 and 33 months, after the front teeth and first molars are already in place, and their size
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Baby Teeth Chart: When Every Tooth Comes In and Falls Out Children get twenty baby teeth, starting around six months and finishing near age three, then lose them in roughly the same order between ages six and twelve while thirty-two permanent teeth take their place. Baby teeth, milk teeth, and primary teeth all name the
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A Gap Between Your Child’s Front Teeth: Should You Worry? A gap between your child’s two front teeth can look like a problem in the making, but in young children it is usually normal and often a good sign. Spacing between baby teeth tends to mean there is room for the larger permanent teeth coming
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Shark Teeth: When a Permanent Tooth Comes In Behind a Baby Tooth Your child opens wide and there it is: a second row of teeth, an adult tooth coming in behind a baby tooth that has not budged. It looks like a shark’s mouth, which is where the nickname comes from, and it tends to
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Ready to Lose the Pacifier? A Timeline and a Plan A pacifier is a normal source of comfort in the early years, and using one isn’t a problem. What matters is when it stops. The window for weaning closes around age three, and getting it done before then protects how your child’s bite and palate
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What Thumb Sucking Does to a Child’s Teeth, and When It Undoes Itself Thumb sucking changes teeth through sustained pressure, not through the thumb itself, which is why how long and how hard matters far more than whether your child does it at all. Most children who stop by about age four end up with
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When Can Kids Brush Their Own Teeth? When to Stop Helping Most kids can start brushing their own teeth around age six, but starting the job and finishing it well are two different things. The hands that can hold a toothbrush at three can’t reliably clean every surface until much later, which is why pediatric
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The Best Foods for Your Child’s Teeth (and the Ones to Limit) What a child eats affects their teeth as much as how well they brush. Some foods strengthen enamel, some scrub the teeth clean as kids chew, and some wash acid off the surface, while others feed the bacteria that cause cavities. You don’t
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