Ideal by nature bite can boast no more than 10% of children. And to assess whether your child enters this number, you can already with three years.

Dentist Ksenia Okatova says that first you need to assess the overall symmetry of the native person. And then ask the child to clench their teeth and smile, exposing the gums. Correctly ? when the front upper teeth about a third close the lower ones, and the teeth themselves are located smoothly and without gaps.

In addition, it is worth paying attention to the fact, whether on some teeth there is excessive plaque. This may be due to insufficient chewing load on the site. Also an occasion for a visit to an orthodontist may be bleeding gums and speech problems.

At children of garden age correction of an occlusion is spent by means of a myoterapy? Gymnastics for chewing muscles and oral cavity. Exercises that the orthodontist recommends are simple:

you need to open your mouth wide or push the lower jaw forward, hold your pencil with your teeth, inflate your cheeks, yawn, clink your tongue, put your lips in a tube and blow off fluff from an imaginary dandelion. But with each kind of bite? their exercises, so the complex should only develop a doctor.

In more difficult cases and for older children, you can not do without removable structures? plates or trainers. These devices mechanically move the teeth and stimulate the growth of the jaw bones.

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