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Early childhood caries (ECC) represents a serious problem in pediatric dentistry. Not only because of its rapidity but also because of age of affected children. This has been given different names such as "rampant caries" and "baby bottle syndrome" but now all clinical manifestations have been
Early childhood caries (ECC) is a common childhood disease with highest prevalence found in poor, socially disadvantaged, and minority groups. The main risk factors for ECC are frequent sugar consumption, lack of tooth brushing, and enamel hypoplasia. Contributory factors include environmental and
Early detection of carious lesions enables the dental professional to interfere in caries development. Visual inspection in combination with bitewing radiographs performed better than new quantitative methods in detecting early non-cavitated carious lesions. Once a lesion has been detected
Dental caries is one of the most common childhood diseases, and people continue to be susceptible to it throughout their lives. Although dental caries can be arrested and potentially even reversed in its early stages, it is often not self-limiting and progresses without proper care until the tooth
Early childhood caries is a severe form of dental decay that affects infants and toddlers. It is a chronic, multi-factorial, infectious disease. It should be considered as a symptom of paediatric disorders and lack of adequate care. The caries is particularly virulent, it develops rapidly, often
METHODS
Medline and Embase electronic databases were searched.
METHODS
Papers published between 1996 and 2011 were initially identified by one reviewer, with 10% being independently reviewed by a second reviewer having predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria.
METHODS
Data abstraction was
ECC was defined by the American Academy of pediatric dentistry at 2003 as the presence of 1 or more decayed (noncavitated or cavitated lesions), missing (due to caries), or filled tooth surfaces in any primary tooth in a child 71 months of age or younger. This is a virulent type of dental caries
OBJECTIVE
The objectives of this study were to learn if the intake of systemic antibiotics during the first year of age (period of primary teeth development) was associated with an increased risk for early childhood caries during the following years; and after the first year of age (following the