How well the baby's bite is formed depends on a number of factors. And the mother should take care of the correct bite of her child in advance. The bite itself with milk teeth is formed from 6 months.
This process continues up to 3.5 years. By the way, an interesting fact: milk teeth finish forming by 2.5 years, but the roots of the teeth continue to form.
Correct and incorrect bite
Doctors divide bites into physiological, that is, correct and abnormal bites, that is, incorrect. So, normal, it is also a physiological bite has its own specific features. But a malocclusion is one in which an unusual position of the jaw is characteristic.
The reasons for the wrong bite
Most often, a malocclusion is formed in children who are bottle-fed. The peculiarity of the structure of the facial part of the skull in childhood is as follows: in infants, the lower jaw is smaller than the upper one. It will even out later with breastfeeding. Please note: the baby forcibly extends the lower jaw when eating. This is how the facial muscles work.
But with artificial feeding, the crumb, instead of sucking milk, quickly swallows it. As a result, the lower jaw is not involved in the feeding process. Therefore, it lags behind the size of the upper jaw. That is why, having matured, the crumb can refuse solid food, and prefer only soft food. Also, the chewing apparatus does not work at full strength and the baby's teeth may not develop correctly. Curvatures appear, and from there an incorrect bite.
