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Dietary choices affect the oral health as well as the general health and well-being. It is recommended to establish good dietary practices by 12 months of age and maintain it throughout early childhood. Breast milk is superior in providing the best nutrition in infants.
Epidemiological research shows that human milk and breastfeeding of infants provide general health, nutritional, developmental, psychological, social, economic, and environmental advantages while significantly decreasing risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases.
ECC may not arise from breastfeeding alone, breast milk is superior in providing the best possible nutrition to infants and, by itself, is non-cariogenic.
Breastfeeding in combination with other high content carbohydrate foods is cariogenic.
Teaching the parents/caregiver the following preventive measures can help reduce the incidence of disease.
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