Baby Bottle Tooth Decay

Every year, many children besides infants experience widespread tooth decay. Astonishingly, milk besides other liquids off the feeding bottles is the principal offenders for this menace. Baby’s mouth like any adult’s mouth carries the entire bacteria fed on sugar contained in the fluids and foods consumed. Such bacteria yield acid as a bye product which invades the tooth enamel resulting in forming hollow spaces.

Tooth decay is understood to be caused by the baby with feeding bottle in the mouth while going to bed when the tooth enamel is progressively damaged by excessive exposure to the sugared fluids in the bottle, termed as Early Childhood Carries (ECC).Very often, the child’s upper front jaw is damaged, though other teeth too are prone to get suffered. Children consuming liquids off sugary cups or eat disproportionate amount of sweetened foods too are said to comprise tooth decay while developing primitive hollow spaces. As per U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 17% of children in the age group of 2-4 years have been suffering from tooth decay.

The primary teeth which are temporary begin to appear in about six months post the child’s birth. These temporary teeth fall out over the years paving way for the child’s permanent adulthood teeth though some baby teeth may continue far into child’s teenage.