What harm does tooth decay do to children?

Children love to eat snacks, especially sweets, so children have the highest incidence of tooth decay, because most children like to eat sweets and have no habit of brushing their teeth. Tooth decay in children is not a trivial matter and should be treated promptly. Although children basically do not feel any discomfort, this is because the damage caused by tooth decay is limited to the outermost layer of the tooth enamel. Once the teeth are damaged, many unexpected symptoms will appear. So, here we will introduce to you the harm that tooth decay in children can cause to the body. Let’s take a look.

Affects growth and development. Due to the pain of tooth decay and the early loss of deciduous teeth, the chewing function is reduced and the gastrointestinal digestion and absorption are weakened, resulting in malnutrition of the body and affecting growth and development.

Cause psychological barriers. Infancy is the period when children learn language, and complete deciduous teeth help children master correct pronunciation. Decay and early loss of primary teeth can cause children to have unclear pronunciation. Severe caries in the area of ​​primary front teeth make some children shy to speak, which is very detrimental to their psychological development.

When children's tooth decay causes periapical infection, it often becomes an infection lesion, causing systemic infection. Related diseases include decreased vision, arthritis, nephritis, myocarditis, long-term low fever, etc.

In the grooves and fissures of the occlusal surfaces of the teeth, early tooth decay appears as black lesions. When examined with a dental probe, the damaged area can hook the probe, indicating that grooves have formed. Once this early stage of enamel caries is discovered, it should not be ignored just because it is painless, but should be treated early to prevent it from further developing.

The disease progresses very slowly. During its slow progression, it does not cause any symptoms for quite a while and is often not easily noticed by people, so it cannot be treated early.

The above introduction is the harm of tooth decay to children's health. I believe everyone has already understood it. In addition, I want to tell you that tooth decay and its secondary diseases, under normal circumstances, will not endanger people's lives and are usually not taken seriously by people. This increases the severity of the harm of tooth decay. Tooth decay will cause great harm to children's oral health and even overall health. Everyone must remember