Did you know that tooth decay in children, also known as milk tooth decay, is a chronic childhood disease? If left to develop on its own without treatment, it can penetrate the entire tooth and cause extremely serious consequences. Rampant caries may negatively affect the quality of life of children, hinder their growth and development, affect their cognitive and social skills, chewing function, and even affect their self-esteem.
The danger of children’s milk tooth caries
1.Children dental disease is 7 times more common than asthma and 5 times more common than pollen allergy.
2.If left untreated, pediatric dental disease can lead to malnutrition, bacterial infection and even death, requiring emergency surgery.
3, Pain and infection caused by tooth decay can lead to a range of problems with eating, speaking and learning.
Children’s Oral Health Crisis
From the United States
1, Dental care is the most common unmet medical need.
2, Each year, approximately 17 million children in the United States do not receive oral care.
3, Each year, more than 51 million school hours and 100 million work hours are wasted due to dental disease, thereby increasing wasted educational resources and decreasing productivity.
4, About 43% of Americans (including 20 million children) do not have dental insurance, which is three times the number of people without health insurance.
5, every $1 spent on prevention is equivalent to $50 saved on dental treatment.
6, only 1.5% of 1-year-old children have seen a dentist, 89% of 1-year-old children have seen an internist.
7.The caries rate of children aged 2-5 years is more than 25%, while the caries rate of children aged 12-15 years is more than 50%.
In Canada
1.An estimated 2.26 million school hours are delayed each year due to dental-related diseases.
2. 4.15 million work hours are wasted each year due to dental disease.
3.57% of children aged 6-11 have dental caries or had their teeth extracted due to caries.
4. 59% of adolescent children have dental caries or had their teeth extracted due to caries.
From the global perspective
1.Globally, dental caries is the most common disease among children.
2.In most countries, dental caries is still a major problem, and a large proportion of students and adults suffer from caries.
3.Dental medical conditions in developing countries are limited, and many people have untreated caries or blindly extracted because of pain.
4.In most countries, the cost of dental caries treatment is very high