I have been a bad mum and let my youngest who is 2 years old sleep at night with a milk bottle.

Tonight when brushing her teeth i have notice a dark mark on one of her back teeth and it looks like a hole - I feel so guilty :sad:

 

I cant believe I didn't stop the night bottles sooner

Tonight she has gone to bed with water only in her bottle - and no amount of her screaming and crying is going to change my mind! night bottles are DONE!

 

I will book her a dentist appointment tomorrow. I am wondering how young kids go a the dentist? how would a dentist fill a cavity on a wriggly 2 year old. any advice or experience shared would be greatly appreciated

Our youngest had problems with his teeth at that age too. He didn't have any enamel on his front teeth and had to have them capped. Unfortunately at that age it meant a general anesthetic.

Edited November 11, 200816 yr by Hills

Oh my - General Anesthetic.... that's scary

I dunno about 2, but my son had a horrible experience with a dentist at 5 yrs or so and it has scarred him for life. He refuses to visit a dentist again, now aged 15 and it is something I will have to tackle with him at some point

At around 5 or so both our boys have had fillings and the dentist was fantastic. She gave them chocolate flavoured gas and then snuck the injection in without them seeing it and they didn't even realise she did it. Now neither of them are in the least bit afraid of the dentist. I guess the lesson here is to choose a good dentist who works only with kids. Unfortunately she was quite expensive.

my dentist is fantastic. I am very happy with him and the best dentist i have ever had.

As a kid I had a dentist who used to do all work deliberately without any pain relief. i remember him telling my mum that he uses this method to teach kids to take better care of their teeth

 

So if they use a general Anesthetic do they just do it there in the dentist??

Edited November 11, 200816 yr by **Liv**

No she did it in the Stirling Hospital. An anesthetist gave the anesthetic and she did the dental work. Poor little fellow has had 4 generals now, 2 for teeth and 2 for grommets in the ears. He seemed to wake up pretty quickly and was fine afterwards although not overly impressed by it all.

 

If your daughter will sit quietly they might not have to do it, but there was no way my son was even going to let her look in his mouth at that age.

When I was little they used to use the happy gas, worked a treat Why not get a check up for yourself first, then the littly can watch you be examined before taking a turn in the chair, might be less daunting that way

I've just had my check up, but i'm sure my dentist will do another to show the kids what its like.... i doubt my little girl will sit still, its a struggle to clean her teeth as it is

Kids do fine at the dentist as long as it doesn't hurt after that it is all downhill. My son had a cavity filled and a root canel because the dentist didn't get all the decay out the first time :mad:, anyways he was very wiggly and taught him to brush his teeth better. At that age general will most like be given and that is best for them because you don't want them to remember 45 minutes of drilling.

Take your child to a pediatric dentist. Pediatric dentists specialise in the dental treatment of young children. Put plain filtered water in the bottle.

 

Also the following blurb is for everyone to be aware of:

 

No chips, lollies, softdrink, flavoured milk, cakes, biscuits, processed food, drugs, artificial sweetners, etc.

Eat natural organic food. We have survived and reproduced eating real food for centuries and all of a sudden we have all these diseases of the 20th/21st century in plague proportions??? I tell you, its the food tampering and the pollution.

 

Do not eat packaged, processed junk. Just don't buy into it. The processed junk is what causes the problems in the first place, so don't give your money to companies that produce it.

 

All this does is make them rich, you poor, and creates health problems for yourself and health system problems for all of society.

Then, after you have given all your money to them and bought health problems for yourself you have to give away more money to fix your problems. Who do you think owns the companies that produce the health remedies! Yep, thats right, the ones who create the problems. They use the money that you give them for all the addictive junk you fill yourself with and then take more to fix it.

 

Not only that, often the remedies are either only temporary fixes, or produce unwanted side effects creating a need for further remedies to treat the side effects. Dentistry requires maintenance, it is not permanent, nothing is.

Also the waste produced from all these activities (processing food, medicines, dentistry, travelling around in your car etc) pollutes the planet damaging all the other life on the planet as well.

 

Everyone needs to watch David Attenborough's "State of the Planet" to really understand that we will eventually cause our own extinction if we continue in an unsustainable, polluting manner. We will most likely cause mass extinction of much other life before that happens. What a shame that is. The whole point of life is to learn about and appreciate the beauty and diversity of the planet, each other and life on it.

 

The solution is for each individual to be aware of their own contribution towards a more sustainable future in living their every day lives. Sustainability is meeting our needs in harmony with earth and all her inhabitants. Before you buy something, ask if you really need it? Look for ways to cut down, simplify, and avoid squandering resources and creating pollution in your domestic life, your work life and for business applications. Forget about the things outside of your control, concentrate on changing yourself and things within your control first, and influencing others of the benefits in doing the same for themselves and their families.

 

Better to practice your own demand management strategies for sustainable health than to make yourself a victim, and further contribute to a toxic world. A demand management strategy is action that reduces demand for a service or resource - an example is reducing household water consumption by only having a four minute shower, like in Brisbane with the water crisis.

 

Examples for sustainable dental health are cleaning your teeth daily (technique is very important), eating a variety of healthy organic natural foods and drinking plenty of plain filtered water. Pretty simple isn't it?

 

You don't have to be paranoid and fanatical about it, 90% is good enough. But, every little bit counts. Every small effort makes a difference. You may not think the power of one is much, but when it all adds up, it makes a huge difference.

 

You are what you eat, think, and do. Don't eat rubbish, don't think it and don't do it.

If you eat junk, your body will become like a rubbish dump. If you eat genetically modified food, you will become genetically modified. If you eat healthy, natural food, (the right fuel for your body "engine") you will be healthy and natural.

 

Your choice, what do you want to be? What sort of world/society do you want?

 

Immortality is not such a great thing, especially since you live forever with the consequences of your mistakes.

If you believe in reincarnation, realise that you are the next generation. What kind of future are you creating for yourself?

Better to take control of the problems now than to come back and fix them when they have grown to monstrous proportions.

 

Or you can let nature fix them for you = adaptation or extinction. The difference is choice.

Edited November 12, 200816 yr by DrNat

If it's only a surface hole they won't even need to give her an injection to fill it. Dentists are much more accomodating to children these days than when I was a child, I have never had any trouble taking any of mine.

What a looooong day :party0011:

 

I rang my dentist at 8:30 this morning and got an appointment for 10am (amazing to get in the same day!!)

Abby was really good with the dentist and i tickled her to get her mouth open . the dentist could see the cavity that i could see so he referred her too the pediatric dentist in Adelaide. We got the appointment for 2:30 today!! of all things!

So we raced down to Adelaide and visited the sweetest dentist i have ever met - she was brilliant with abby and abby did exactly as she was told and was a very good girl :bliss: The pediatric dentist said she has 2 holes, one tooth may need a crown , and she is going to do some other little things while in there too to stop problems in the future. So Abby is booked in to the hospital to have a general anaesthetic.... TOMORROW morning!! i cant believe how quick this is all happening. it has been a full coincidence of great timing that for each thing there has been an open spot for her

 

The dentist she is seeing tomorrow is apparently so good that patients travel from interstate to have him and he is only working tomorrow and they could fit her in :party0011:

Don't you love it when a plan comes together. Sounds like she's in the best of care!

It's great when things happen like that. It means YOU don't have time to worry about it and stress... it will be over before you know it. Good luck for tomorrow and I'm sure Abby will be fine :party0011:

Thanks so much! it is far better having it all happen at once as i do tend to stress about these things.... i know i am stressing now :party0011: but this time it will all be over :bliss:

She went to bed without her bottle again :party0011:

I have decided to ditch the bottle all together - cold turkey and seems to be going okay so far

Sounds all good, it is awesome when dentists have good bedside manners with kids. All will be okay.

Good thing you took the bottle away that was a excellent decision.

Abby has had her teeth all fixed. She was a very good girl and the doctors were so impressed at how well behaved she was. Everything went smoothly and she charmed all the doctors. Her teeth were causing her pain before and she is so relieved now!! :hap:

 

note to self and others "DO NOT GIVE ANYTHING OTHER THAN WATER AT NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Good to hear and always brush their teeth, here they say until they are up to 10 yr of age

Wow, from spotting the problem to getting it fixed within two days!! That's got to be a world record, well done!

It has been a hectic 24 hours that's for sure :hap:

but its all over and done with now and i am on a mission to be a better mum as these things happen to anyone who thinks it wont happen to them!

Edited November 13, 200816 yr by **Liv**