Anyone had themselves, or their children had, bad baby teeth?

Question

Please tell me your stories!

My daughter (who is two) is going to have to have 6 teeth removed at some point. I am so scared about how she will manage and if her next teeth will be OK.

Answer 1

All my baby teeth had no enamel on them, and when my second set came in only my molars had that problem.  But those teeth i had to constantly have them worked on.  Now days though they have enamel they can put on them from preventing it.  Talk to your dentist see what he thinks caused them to go so bad between appointments.  See what you can do to prevent them from the rest going bad and the next set.  Prescription toothpaste and rinse is also a possibility and or fluoride supplements.  Just she what the dentist can do for you.

Answer 2

My first has HORRIBLE teeth.  He's had one front tooth removed already and I think the second front tooth is going to go too.

They will more than likely give your daughter a permanent denture which is basically a bridge glued to the back molars.  This is best done to the two year molars, so you might want to wait for those to come in.

They really can't leave the space(s) open because the other teeth will shift and can damage adult teeth.

Some people with horrible baby teeth never have a problem with adult teeth, some do.  Some people have great baby teeth and horrible adult teeth.

There are a lot of resources in this answer (of mine) I suggest you read some of them so you will stop blaming yourself:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

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*lol* I'm in Canada and the one dentist said they don't do fluoride sealant here, only plain fluoride.

One said to put fluoride on once a week (mouthwash with a q-tip).  One said that this was too likely to cause fluorodosis damage to the adult teeth and its better that the baby teeth all rot out than do something to damage the adult teeth.

Some cavities were filled, one was just "shaved off" and it "healed" on its own.  (It really did I saw it).  This was AFTER the dentist would not believe how quickly his cavities progress and the cavity he just shaved appeared in the three weeks between when they pulled the first tooth and went to put the denture in.

Honestly I think most ped dentists are absolute morons.  If I hear one more tell me that breastmilk has no nutrition after 4 or 6 months, or some other equally dumb statement I am going to stop giving them studies on paper and borrow my cousin's gun instead.

There is some good info here as well:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ver...

Answer 3

If that is due to lack of brush habits, then  you should be alert and care of them better.   My little neighbors has their first  theet around the  4 months, so at their 6  years they had problems due to both, lack of brush and bad quality of the theet.  They had pain  that made hard to eat. Had to  took theet out and caring  that next ones had the space enough to show up.    No one can say if second theet  would be  healthy, but most  of times  all is fine.

All is about care.

Peace

Answer 4

I would be concerned with how they are going to maintain the space. I it very important that the adult teeth that good guidance. So I would have the teeth removed but make sure your dds knows where to go after that in order for the adult teeth to come in

Answer 5

My nephew had 8 removed I think when he was 2 1/2. They were horrible looking and the Dr said it could damage his adult teeth if the decay continued. He has no front teeth up top just k-9's then they gave him some caps on his molars. I'm not going to lie he looks funny without those front ones. It's still really hard for him to take bites of food too.