If a 3-year-old child has objective signs of early childhood caries and a history of still using a bottle with milk at night to go to sleep, what human need deficit does this child most likely have?

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The diagnostic statement may be written accordingly: Unmet need for a biologically sound and functional dentition, related to nursing a milk bottle to go to sleep plus Streptococcus mutans infection, as evidenced by signs of moderate caries on the facial surfaces of the anterior maxillary primary dentition and reports from the mother that the child is not yet weaned from the bottle.

If a 3-Year-Old Child Has Objective Signs of Early Childhood