patients ’parents in the simplest aspects of dental protection
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Mutlaq, a consultant pediatric dentist at the Security Forces Hospital, warned of the transmission of caries to children through mothers through kissing and sharing food utensils, according to magazines specialized in dental caries research that warned against the transmission of bacteria that cause caries by mothers to children, especially at the age of eight Ten months, leading to dangerously high rates of tooth decay in children.
Dr. Al-Mutlaq explained that this increase did not come from a vacuum, rather it came from neglecting the preventive aspect in dental treatment and paying much attention to the curative aspect of caries, whether by dentists or patients and their families.
Dr. Al-Mutlaq said that society suffers from the ignorance of patients ’parents in the simplest aspects of preventing tooth decay, including not brushing the teeth before the child''s third age, not cleaning milk before bedtime and leaving a bottle of milk during sleep. And dependence on children completely in brushing their teeth and not brushing them by the mother or the father, including not to visit the children''s dentist except in the case of feeling pain.
Dr. Al-Mutlaq noted the efforts of the Security Forces Hospital and the Saudi Dental Association to hold this scientific symposium on dental protection in order to meet officials and specialists in this field to discuss the risk of caries in our country and develop plans and strategies to reduce and reduce caries rates, and among the most prominent programs adopted by the Gawi Hospital program The security, represented by the dental department, set up the early detection program for teeth and made it a duty to complete the vaccination certificate for the child, and Dr. Al-Mutlaq explained that this program will help a lot in detecting caries early and meeting with parents and introducing them to methods of preventing caries and developing preventive programs for children who have an increased risk of caries, and in At the end of his statement, Dr. Al-Mutlaq wished the relevant authorities to intensify efforts and focus on prevention programs more than the curative aspects, as they are rightly an investment for the health of citizens and an end to the waste of public money in the treatment of caries.
