Although is it no longer unusual to see children smiling with a full set of unmarred teeth, millions of other children have little to smile about. For them, the daily reality is persistent dental pain, endurance of dental abscesses (infection in the mouth), inability to chew foods well, embarrassment about discolored and damaged teeth, and distraction from play and learning.
Acute pain caused by dental caries has a strong effect on children, families, and systems that is often equal to and sometimes greater than the effect of asthma.
Children and adolescents with oral health problems are more likely to feel worthless and inferior, shy, unhappy, sad, or depressed and are less likely to be friendly compared with those without oral health problems.
Early tooth loss caused by tooth decay can result in failure to thrive, impaired speech development, and reduced self-esteem.
Dental injuries, which occur among 1 in 14 children and adolescents ages 5–14 annually, can cause aesthetic, psychological, social, and therapeutic problems.
Adolescents ages 12–14 with fractured teeth experience more impact on their daily living than adolescents with no traumatic injury. Adolescents with fractured teeth are more likely to report an impact on eating and enjoying food; smiling, laughing, and showing teeth without embarrassment; maintaining usual emotional state without being irritable; and enjoying contact with people, compared to those without such injury.
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