ECC: Consequences
ECC is the most common chronic childhood disease and has many potentially severe consequences, including:
- Pain
- Impaired chewing and nutrition
- Infection
- Increased caries in permanent dentition
- School/work absences
- Students with dental pain are 3 times more likely to have poorer school performance
- Difficulty sleeping
- Poor self-esteem
- Extensive and expensive dental work which often must be completed under general anesthesia
Severe maxillary incisor caries with central abscesses
Donald Greiner, DDS, MS
   All four maxillary incisors extracted due to severe caries
Joanna Douglass, BDS, DDS
     Molars restored with stainless steel crowns        Â
Joanna Douglass, BDS, DDS
References
White BA, Monopoli MP, Souza BS. Catalyst Institute The Oral Health of Massachusetts’ Children. January, 2008. Click hereÂ
Jackson SL et al. Impact of Poor Oral Health on Children's School Attendance and Performance. Am J Public Health. 2011 ;101(10):1900-6.
Martins-Júnior PA, Vieira-Andrade RG, Corrêa-Faria P et al. Impact of early childhood caries on the oral health-related quality of life of preschool children and their parents. Caries Res. 2013;47(3):211-8.