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Question: How much do the first teeth matter (meaning treatment and regular checks by a dentist)? – they would be lost sooner or later anyway.
Answer: The fact that the first teeth are lost does not mean that one may neglect them: milk teeth diseases can, with the
course of time, develop into a serious problem when the permanent teeth begin to cut. Milk teeth of a child "guard"
the places where the permanent teeth cut later; they guarantee correct development, growth and position of the
permanent teeth.
If the first tooth drops out prematurely, the permanent tooth that follows may be inherently damaged, weak, cut in a
wrong place so that later on you may have to suffer long, costly and sometimes very unpleasant orthodontic operations
on your jaws that are required to restore correct position of teeth. Quite often carious first teeth develop purulent
inflammation that is very painful and, which is still worse, injurious for the permanent tooth germ that develops
under such first tooth. One should remember that caries and teeth deposit, both on first teeth and on permanent teeth,
are the springboard for the attack of pathogenic, i.e. disease-producing, microbes.
Frequent anginas (chronic tonsillitis exacerbation), bronchitis, pneumonia, lymphadenitis, streptoderma, and,
generally speaking, the so-called chronic sepsis may start from a small hole in a tooth or from just a single tooth
that was not brushed for several days.
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