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| Health & well being
You Child can be
free from
dental disease
for life time
Children’s oral health is one of
the foundations upon which
preventive education and
dental care must be built to
enhance the opportunity for a
lifetime free from preventable
oral disease which includes
preventive strategies, oral
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Dr Anthuria Rajan
Anthuria is an overseas
dentist from Sri Lanka
currently living in South
London.
health risk assessment and
therapeutic interventions
Early childhood caries (ECC)
begins soon after tooth
eruption, develops on smooth
surfaces, progress rapidly, and
has a lasting detrimental impact
on the dentition.
This disease affects the general
population but more likely to
occur in infants who are of low
socioeconomic status, who
consume a diet high in sugar,
and whose mothers have a low
education level.
Caries in primary teeth can
affect children’s growth, result in
significant pain and potentially
life-threatening infection, and
diminish overall quality of life.