Vitamin D: deficiency that hurt the baby teeth

Women during pregnancy have a deficiency in vitamin D, expose their children to oral disorders. More particularly, the appearance of caries at an early age.


A Canadian team looked at 206 pregnant women. Just over 10% of them had levels of vitamin D in line with normal. Thereafter, the researchers assessed the oral health of their children when they reached the age of 16 months.

And the results are talking! For small whose mother had a deficiency of vitamin D have also presented defects in the tooth enamel. Consequently, they were at greater risk of decay