As a parent, it is important to care for your child's physical and emotional health. However, placing time and energy into your child's oral health is also necessary. From teaching them how to brush and floss and scheduling regular dental checkups, these tasks will help your child develop and maintain a healthy and appealing smile. Unfortunately, your child will lose teeth as they are growing. In most cases, the baby teeth will begin to fall out around the age of 6 or 7 years old, but some of these teeth may struggle to come out completely. Knowing what to do if your child's loose tooth is not falling out is smart. Here are a few tips to help your child's loose tooth.

Let Nature Take Its Course

Parents can research and try all types of techniques to pull out their child's loose tooth, but sometimes these techniques cause more harm than good. Therefore, it may be best to do absolutely nothing at all and let nature take its course because the tooth will eventually fall out.

Of course, if the loose tooth is causing your child pain or irritating their mouth, tongue, or gum tissue, schedule a dentist visit immediately. Pediatric dentists have the skill and knowledge necessary for removing a tooth in the safest and most pain free manner possible.

Shut the Front Door

Some parents believe the best option for removing a loose tooth is a piece of string tied to a door knob. This technique involves tying a string around your child's door and securing it to a door knob before slamming the door shut. The movement is supposed to yank the tooth from your child's mouth quickly and painlessly.

As with other DIY solutions, the string and door knob will do more harm than good.

The process can be rather traumatic for children, especially younger children who do not understand what is going on. Also, if the string comes loose, whether from the tooth or the door knob, the few minutes of trauma can cause emotional distress for absolutely no reason.

It is important to note that some dentists recommend this process, especially when compared to tying the string from the tooth to a remote-controlled car or other moving object.

Wiggle Just a Little Bit

If you just cannot wait to see your dentist and you want to avoid using the string and door knob method, spend some time wiggling the loose tooth back and forth over and over again.

To get started, wash and dry your hands. Then, grab the loose tooth with a piece of gauze or paper towel. Wiggle the tooth back and forth, side to side, over and over again, giving a slight tug periodically.

In many cases, wiggling the tooth during the course of a day will be sufficient for removing the loose tooth completely and without any pain or trauma. To learn more, visit http://www.childrensdent.com.