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TAKING CARE OF
YOUR CHILD’S
Teaching your children good oral hygiene and
healthy nutritional habits will help ensure strong and
healthy teeth for life.
HEALTH
speaks to Dr. Sangeeth
Radhakrishnan, Specialist Pediatric Dentist at GMC
Hospital in Ajman to learn the best ways to ensure your
child’s teeth are in optimal health.
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Milk Teeth
The milk teeth, points out Dr. Radhakrishnan, usually erupt into the oral
cavity around the age of six months. “The first tooth to erupt into the
oral cavity is usually the lower central incisors and by the age of 30 to 36
months, usually all of the twenty milk teeth have erupted,” he says.
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