Why you need to pay attention to baby teeth

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]We need to treat baby teeth with extreme care.

[00:00:03]I'd say they're probably the most important teeth we ever have. People have no idea what baby teeth offer us.

[00:00:10]They offer us it's not a practice run.

[00:00:13]Baby teeth are designed to pick up bacteria and be coated in the bacteria that they get from their parents.

[00:00:20]Hopefully you are imparting healthy bacteria to your children. And if you're not then check my website dr.ellie.com and get on a program with Zollipops so that you can develop a whole group of healthy bacteria in your mouth.

[00:00:35]Then when you kiss and you love on your baby and you share food, you will share with your baby these good healthy bacteria.

[00:00:43]And they then will colonize, they will spread and take charge of your baby's mouth.

[00:00:49]You have the control of this transfer.

[00:00:53]And once the baby is 2 years old, usually the mouth is then fully colonized. That means the bacteria have got their foothold in all the little nooks and crannies where they want to live and they if they are healthy bacteria will protect the child from cavities and from problems with their teeth.

[00:01:12]And then as the new permanent teeth come through which happens about kindergarten age about five, new adult molars come at the back.

[00:01:22]And imagine these new teeth coming into this mouth that's already full of healthy bacteria, of course they get covered by the same bacteria that's in the child's mouth. So baby teeth are the carriers, they are the vehicles to deliver to the permanent teeth all this garden of healthy bacteria that's going to protect your child's teeth probably for the rest of their lives. So we have to take charge early, right at the beginning. Ideally before your child even has teeth, make sure as mom and dad and people around the baby you have a healthy mouth. That's what's most important.