Healthy child" care in questions and answers: development of milk tooth and teething

Abstract

During the first few months of baby's life, considerable changes are going on all the time. The changes are observed not only in height and weight (physical development), but also in mental, motor, emotional, speech and social development. Teething is one of the major indicators of baby's health and the most important stage in the development of maxillo-facial area. Parents have a lot of questions during this period which they address to paediatrician or try to answer themselves with the help of the Internet or more experienced friends and relatives. The article is devoted to issues of teething which is a widespread subject of questions quite often asked by anxious parents when visiting children's doctor.