Contents:
- Medical Video: Children’s Cavities | How to Keep Your Kid’s Teeth Healthy
- Caries is rampant and bottles, different meanings
- Different triggers
- Different age
- Different the number of teeth involved
Medical Video: Children’s Cavities | How to Keep Your Kid’s Teeth Healthy
Caries is a medical term for cavities. Especially in children, there are two of the most common types of caries haunting, namely rampant caries and bottles. The caries is rampant and the bottles together begin with the appearance of a brownish area on the teeth which is the forerunner to the development of cavities.
Then, what's the difference?
Caries is rampant and bottles, different meanings
Caries is a problem of tooth decay that occurs very quickly and suddenly, and is widespread so that it directly hits the pulp (the middle part of the tooth).
Meanwhile, bottle caries is a more specific form of rampant caries that occurs at a certain age.
Different triggers
Teeth can be hollow basically due to bacteria that live in the mouth. The bacteria eats away the plaque of food scraps (especially sugar and carbohydrates) that attach to the teeth and then produce acid. It is the acid that eats away the enamel of the tooth (the outermost part of the tooth), resulting in small holes in the teeth which eventually grow bigger.
The difference between a carious and a bottle is what triggers the damage. In rampant caries, cavities are caused more by food scraps that accumulate into plaque on a child's teeth.
Meanwhile, bottle caries or nursing caries is a form of tooth decay that is triggered by the rest of the drink because the child often falls asleep while still breastfeeding (either bottles or breast milk).
Different age
Caries is rampant and the bottle is a dental problem that attacks children.
Caries is more common in children under five years old. Most commonly found in children aged four years. Adults can also get rampant caries.
While bottle caries usually occurs in children aged 1-2 years who are still breastfeeding (either through bottles, breast milk, or sippy cup)
Different the number of teeth involved
This rampant caries occurs in milk teeth, can be one or several teeth at a time; including teeth that should be immune to caries, such as lower front incisors. Caries is said to be rampant (rampant) because it can attack up to 10 teeth at a time.
Meanwhile, the lower front incisors are relatively better protected from the threat of bottle caries because they are covered with the tongue and wetted the flow of baby saliva.
This means that more teeth can be damaged by rampant caries than bottle caries.
