Why is it so important to treat baby teeth if they are going to fall off and get replaced by adult teeth?
Baby teeth (primary teeth) start developing during pregnancy well before your child was even born. They start erupting as early as 6 months (or earlier) and they are there for very good reasons. Baby teeth help your child chew his or her food to contribute in providing nutrition at a time which is very critical for their growth and development. Anterior baby teeth contribute to your child’s speech development and appearance. Posterior baby teeth guide the eruption of the adult teeth and more importantly, they preserve the space which the adult teeth need, to erupt in their proper positions. Therefore, they play a critical role in preserving the integrity of the dental arch. Early loss of a posterior primary (baby) tooth or teeth (without proper space management) is very likely to cause partial or total loss of the space allocated for the perspective adult teeth, which will result in diversion of the eruption of those teeth or even their impaction (failure to erupt). Therefore, it is ve
