Why don all babies who take night bottle get decay?
Some babies do not have the type of bacteria needed to change the sugar in the bottle into decay acid. Both the sugar and the bacteria must be present for ECC. Your baby can receive the decay bacteria from the kisses or food tasting of a care giver, but there is no easy way for us to know this. So, we concentrate on avoiding the night bottle. Then, if the baby gets the decay bacteria there will still be no ECC. Won’t the baby teeth be lost before they cause a problem? The last of the baby upper front teeth are usually not lost until 8 years old. The last of the baby molars stay until age 11. How does the pediatric dentist repair ECC? By doing early exams on toddlers we can find cavities when they are very small. Simple inexpensive measures like changing to water in the bottle, better brushing, hand curretting the decay and temporary cement fillings may be all that is needed. When severe cases require sedation, or general anesthesia by a board certified anesthesiologist, we have the qua
