Frequent feeding at night including bottlefeeding,
breastfeeding on demand and
frequent use of spill-proof drinking cups
is associated with ECC but is not
consistently implicated. It is recommended
that infants should not be put to bed with
the baby bottle and that ad libitum
breastfeeding at night should be avoided
after the eruption of the first tooth. This
view is ambiguous and arguable because
the American Association of Pediatric
Dentistry no longer includes breastfeeding
among cariogenic factors