Baby teeth help your child chew foods that are essential for brain, muscle and nerve development. Without these teeth in good condition children can often suffer from malnutrition.
Baby teeth help children learn to annunciate words and early tooth loss can cause delayed speech. Baby teeth are also a big part of a child’s self esteem.
Cavities are a bacterial infection inside the teeth. Infections can be painful and dangerous for your child and need to be treated. Pain from infections can alter sleep and behavior patterns and cause uncharacteristic mood swings, bad grades, poor appetite and lead to serious health complications such as access of the root or infections of the heart and brain.
Adult teeth are forming now! Early tooth loss can cause the adult teeth to become impacted and the surrounding teeth too drift apart. This can cause more decay and lead to expensive corrective treatments. Severe decay in the baby teeth can cause white spots to develop on the adult teeth.