Premature Children Have Smaller Teeth
The size of teeth in premature children is smaller. This has been established in a study from the Faculty of Odontology at Malmà University in Sweden. Our knowledge about premature children, and their physical and mental development as they grow up, is constantly growing. In recent years several studies of children's dental health have been published by researchers at the Faculty of Odontology in MalmÃ. Liselotte Paulsson-Bjà rnsson, a specialist in orthodontics, has studied 80 children born before week 33 of pregnancy.
Fixed Appliances Best And Cheapest To Correct Crossbite In Children
Society could save millions of crowns each year if more children were fitted with fixed appliances. This is shown in unique studies performed by Sofia Petrà n, a dentist and orthodontic specialist at the Department of Orthodontics at Malmo University in Sweden. Calculations indicate that at least ten percent of all eight- and nine-year-olds in Sweden have so-called crossbite. This means that the children's upper and lower jaws are different in width and do not line up against each other when they bite their jaws together.
Many Young Children Off To A Poor Start With Dental Health, According To Poll Results
Although child health experts recommend that children begin oral health care by age 1 or when their first teeth emerge, a new report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health shows that most children ages 1-2 have not yet started seeing a dentist. In May 2011, the National Poll on Children's Health asked parents of children ages 1-5 about dental health care for young children. The poll found that only 23% of 1-year-olds had been to the dentist and only 44% of 2-year-olds had been to the dentist.