Dental caries affects body weight, growth and quality of life in pre-school children

By A. Sheiham. British Dental Journal, 2006

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Early childhood caries update: A review of causes, diagnoses, and treatments (2013, background): “A third possible mechanism of how untreated severe caries with pulpitis affects growth is that pulpitis and chronic dental abscesses affect growth by causing chronic inflammation that affects metabolic pathways where cytokines affect erythropoiesis.[100] For example, interleukin-1 (IL-1), which has ”