What kind of harm will dental caries bring?

Dental caries is what people usually call tooth decay. As the saying goes, "Toothache is not a life-threatening disease". Suffering from dental caries will not only cause frequent pain, but also have many effects on the health of patients. Once you get sick, you must be treated as soon as possible. The health hazards of dental caries to patients include the following aspects: affecting the growth and development of patients. Because dental caries are often painful, deciduous teeth fall off early, chewing function is reduced, and digestion and absorption of gastrointestinal tract are weakened, which leads to malnutrition and affects growth and development. Cause infectious diseases. When children's dental caries cause periapical infection, they often become the focus of infection and cause systemic infection. Related diseases include vision loss, arthritis, nephritis, myocarditis, long-term low fever and so on.

Causes root granuloma, cyst, pulp infection, etc. Dental caries can be the focus of infection, which can induce nephritis, rheumatic fever, tonsillitis, impetigo, scarlet fever, sepsis and so on. When the body's resistance drops, such as fatigue and cold. Studies have shown that 8 1% of children with deep caries, residual roots and tooth abscess have local lymphadenopathy, especially submandibular lymph nodes. After caries treatment, 70% of the swollen lymph nodes can subside. Resulting in an increase in oral temperature. The oral temperature of children with dental caries is higher than that of normal children, and the total number of white blood cells in blood increases, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate increases, the red blood cells decrease, the hemoglobin is low, and the total serum protein changes. After caries treatment, it returned to normal, but the total serum protein did not change much in a short time. Therefore, when children have unexplained low fever, anemia, elevated white blood cells and accelerated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, oral examination should be performed first.

Cause psychological barriers. Infants and young children are learning language, and complete deciduous teeth help children master correct pronunciation. Dental caries and premature loss of deciduous teeth can make children's pronunciation unclear. The serious caries in the anterior teeth of deciduous teeth make some children shy to speak, which is very unfavorable to their psychological development. Cause facial development asymmetry. Due to the pain of dental caries, unilateral chewing habits are caused, and facial development is asymmetrical for a long time. Malocclusion and dysplasia of permanent teeth. Dental caries lead to premature loss of deciduous teeth, which leads to the displacement of adjacent teeth to the gap, resulting in disorder and malocclusion of permanent teeth; If deciduous tooth caries are not treated in time, it will also cause permanent tooth dysplasia.

Maxillofacial deformity. Primary dentition is a chewing organ in childhood, and only the stimulation of chewing function can promote the normal development of jaw. Without this normal physiological stimulation, the normal development of the jaw will be affected, which may lead to maxillofacial deformities. Secondary to other dental diseases. The long-term existence of dental caries can develop into pulpitis, periapical periodontitis, odontogenic cyst or interstitial infection. Periapical periodontitis of deciduous teeth will also spread to permanent teeth, leading to hypoplasia of hard tissue of permanent teeth, forming so-called knight teeth. Others. Dental caries can also affect children's development, leading to partial eclipse and loss of appetite. Promote bad oral habits. Children's cavities are often discarded because of the pain when chewing food. They only eat the healthy side. After a long time, they developed the habit of chewing on one side. The disused side of mandible lacks functional stimulation, mandibular dysplasia and facial asymmetry, that is, the healthy side is large and the disused side is small.

After we know the above introduction, we clearly understand the harm caused by dental caries. Dental caries bring a lot of inconvenience to patients and especially serious harm to their dental health. Therefore, we should be alert to the emergence of dental caries and thoroughly understand these dangers mentioned above.