Journal article

Publication year: 2001

Pages: 47-50

Journal: Journal of dentistry for children

Volume number: 68

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 1551-8949

eISSN: 1935-5068

Publisher: American Society of Dentistry for Children

Abstract: 

On investigating 186 infants between the ages of one and six with carious destruction of the maxillary primary incisors, it was learned which risk factors were responsible for the condition known as nursing bottle syndrome.

One hundred and twenty-eight infants (68.8 percent) were given a nursing bottle, twelve (6.5 percent) a feeding cup or other bottles with bill-shaped extensions, and forty-one (22.0 percent) both a nursing bottle and vessels with bill-shaped extensions; in all cases the feeding was excessive and prolonged beyond the first year of life. An additional five infants (2.7 percent) were breast-fed excessively beyond the first year.

The results confirm the risk of tooth destruction, typical of nursing bottle syndrome, by prolonged and frequent consumption of cariogenic beverages from vessels with bill-shaped extensions. It is important, therefore, that a warning regarding the dental health hazards of such feeding methods be issued.

Harvard Citation style: Behrendt, A., Sziegoleit, F., Müler-Lessmann, V., Ipek-Özdemir, G. and Wetzel, W. (2001) Nursing-bottle syndrome caused by prolonged drinking from vessels with bill-shaped extensions, Journal of dentistry for children, 68(1), pp. 47-50

APA Citation style: Behrendt, A., Sziegoleit, F., Müler-Lessmann, V., Ipek-Özdemir, G., & Wetzel, W. (2001). Nursing-bottle syndrome caused by prolonged drinking from vessels with bill-shaped extensions. Journal of dentistry for children. 68(1), 47-50.