Article: Toddler dental disgrace

[christy]

I think Matilda may have a rotten tooth. She's never had anything other than milk in a bottle & we've brushed her teeth everynight from the first tooth... only started having juice diluted from 2 yrs old. No lollies before then either. Rarely a biscuit... and yet I was brushing her teeth last night & she said one hurt & it looks like a black spot in the middle of the molar...

Sadly there is no flouride in our water here, and heaps of education... and I've done all the right things except for the first 2 years where she went to sleep with a bottle of milk at night. As soon as it was finished I took it away, but I didn't brush her teeth afterwards for ages....

[Bathsheba]

Oh no Christy! I think my previous post was a bit harsh... sorry darl... it was late and I wasn't thinking straight... I was actually thinking of close relatives of ours who allow their children to drink coke like it was water and wonder why they have to spend hundreds at the dentist... they just don't see the corrolation between diet and health and I allow it to frustrate me

Obviously your situation is different Christy... have you been to the dentist yet? I meant to say also that i agree that thin enamel is genetic. My Dh's family have 'weak' teeth so I'm going to have to keep an eye on my children's teeth extra closely too.