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Surgeon General Report Facts
ECC (Early Childhood Caries) or formerly known as Bottle/Nursing Decay, is rampant throughout North America.
Silent Epidemic
A report of the Surgeon General uncovered an alarming discovery of dental and oral disease among segments of the American population.
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Surgeon General Report Facts

ECC (Early Childhood Caries) or formerly known as Bottle/Nursing Decay, is rampant throughout North America.

96% of North American Pediatric Dentists see patients 24 months and younger with ECC.

Dental caries is the single most common chronic childhood disease.

It is 5 times more frequent than asthma.
It is 7 times more frequent than hay fever.
It causes more than 51 million lost school hours each year.
Some 6 out of 10 children in the United States have one or more decayed or filled primary teeth by age 5.
Employed adults lose more than 164 million hours of work each year due to dental disease.

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Have you ever had a toothache?

For how long? Could you sleep well? Eat well?

How are YOU when you suffer with chronic pain?

What if you couldn’t speak?

How would you communicate your discomfort?

What if your baby was suffering from a toothache? How would he/she tell you about the pain? Would he/she cry, not sleep well, not eat well and be generally unhappy?