Dental Treatment, Including Restoration of Active Carious Lesions:
Another reason Betsy needs to be evaluated by a dental professional is to determine whether she has any active carious lesions. Most experts advocate the treatment of existing caries in the mother in order to reduce the reservoir of caries microorganisms that can potentially be transmitted to the infant. This caries microorganism is:

mutans streptococci

Actinobacillus acidophilus

Porphoromonas gingivalis