CHILD OR PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

QUESTION NO : 1                                                                                                                                                                                                         Since milk teeth are going to fall off why fill them? 

Now milk teeth are like normal teeth which can cause severe pain and infection in a child and child may suffer. Filling of milk teeth is as important as filling of permanent teeth because of the infection and pain progress the child suffers and lead to fever also and subsequently going for root canal treatment. 

                                                                                                                                               QUESTION NO : 2                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Is it true that infection from milk teeth spread to permanent teeth?

YES. If baby teeth are left untreated the infection might spread to permanent teeth buds present beneath the baby teeth in the jaw and cause problems.The infection in primary teeth can also affect the developing successor teeth leading to hypomineralization, hypoplasia, arrest of tooth development, regional odontodysplasia, delayed eruption etc.