You should be concerned about the health of your child’s baby teeth for a couple of reasons.
First, if baby teeth have disease or cavities, they can cause the child pain, infection, loss of function – in other words, the child is not able to eat well and gain the proper nutrition.
Also, problems with baby teeth can lead to problems with permanent teeth.
When cavities in baby teeth are left untreated, permanent teeth entering that environment are prone to the same thing – cavities, decay, pain, loss of function.
Baby teeth also serve another important purpose – they save space for the child’s future permanent teeth. If the baby teeth aren’t there, there can be problems, because the permanent teeth don’t know where to go.
That’s why it’s just as important to take care of baby teeth as it is to maintain healthy permanent teeth. We can easily avoid problems by starting preventive care at first tooth / first birthday.