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By DAN CHILDS
ABC News Medical Unit
May 2, 2007
Like many parents, Ariel Elliott, a Chicago mother of three girls, is no stranger to childhood tooth decay.
What makes her story different is the fact that her first child's dental problems began inexplicably and very early. She said that when she first brought her daughter Avra to the dentist's office, her baby girl was not even a year old. She soon learned that her daughter's teeth had already begun to decay, even before they had completely grown in.
Fortunately, the problem was caught early. But even now that Avra's dental prognosis has improved, Elliott remains puzzled as to exactly why tooth decay struck her daughter so early. "I did all that I could," she said. "I fed them healthy, organic foods and brushed their teeth."
And now another of Elliott's daughters, 2-year-old Ilah, is experiencing similar difficulties. "Just yesterday she [the dentist] filled four cavities in my 2-year-old's front teeth," Elliott said. "She nursed a lot, and basically it rotted her first four teeth." ...................

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