Tooth decay in young children is mainly because of feeding milk with bottle. During night the child is fed with bottle and made to go to sleep. The milk being very good nutrition to the bacteria, the anaerobic bacteria (bacteria which grow in abscence of oxygen) multiplies fast and show its action on the milk components left in the child mouth producing lactic acid. This acid will show its action on calcium part of the tooth. The milk teeth being very soft in nature as their crystalline structure is weak, will yield to this acid dissolution, chipping and blackening. This type of decay in children is called
RAMPENT CARIES OR BOTTLE FEEDING SYNDROME.There is no treatment for rampent caries except for small fillings. Prevention is better.
After feeding the milk, feed water with another bottle to the child so that the sucking pressure with in flow of water will flush the teeth and stagnated milk reminants will be cleaned on its own.
Generally children will refuse brushing the teeth. In such a case, just give a kids brush and ask them to chew on it which cleans the teeth and removes stagnated food particles,
This helps a lot particularly in rampent caries.
