Yes. My little bundle of rosey smelling poopy pants has tooth decay. So, lets talk about all the hindsight. I noticed a crack in two of her top front teeth a while back. I asked the pediatrition at her next visit and she said we should wait and see, as long as it doesn't stop baby from eating or nursing. I think she cracked them when she fell down while holding my stainless steel cup and hit her mouth on it. She left a pretty big dent in it, enough for me to need a new cup.
Well we waited and nothing really got better or worse. Not that a cracked tooth can get better. So, fast forward 4 months and I noticed her teeth look like she marked them up with a grey/green crayon. I am talking full on Austin Powers yuck teeth across her four front.
No more wait and see. I took her to 4 children's Dental offices. Two of the dentists wouldn't treat her at all because they were not pediatric specialists as advertised and one yelled at me for letting her get bottle rot and also for taking Zofran while pregnant. What? Finally I found a pediatric specialist expecting her to tell me Juniper needed caps on her front four teeth. Nope! She needs to have her top 3 front teeth removed. REMOVED!! She has such an aggressive decay in the tooth because it entered through the break that it is not salvageable. As if that were not horrific enough, she is not a candidate for oral sedation. That means having to take her to a childrens hospital and putting her completely under with general anesthesia or giving her laughing gas in the office and strapping her down to do the work.
I am having a hard time brushing her teeth because they are so sensitive now but she seems to have taken to a new one I found on Amazon http://amzn.to/2nxCjyG
Well we waited and nothing really got better or worse. Not that a cracked tooth can get better. So, fast forward 4 months and I noticed her teeth look like she marked them up with a grey/green crayon. I am talking full on Austin Powers yuck teeth across her four front.
No more wait and see. I took her to 4 children's Dental offices. Two of the dentists wouldn't treat her at all because they were not pediatric specialists as advertised and one yelled at me for letting her get bottle rot and also for taking Zofran while pregnant. What? Finally I found a pediatric specialist expecting her to tell me Juniper needed caps on her front four teeth. Nope! She needs to have her top 3 front teeth removed. REMOVED!! She has such an aggressive decay in the tooth because it entered through the break that it is not salvageable. As if that were not horrific enough, she is not a candidate for oral sedation. That means having to take her to a childrens hospital and putting her completely under with general anesthesia or giving her laughing gas in the office and strapping her down to do the work.
I am having a hard time brushing her teeth because they are so sensitive now but she seems to have taken to a new one I found on Amazon http://amzn.to/2nxCjyG
Hi doll I had no idea this was going on.. shoot. So what does this mean? Toothless till adult teeth come in. I can't believe this. Poor juniper poor mama.
ReplyDeleteBy the way it's Tara. Lol. My profile seems to not have a photo. Anyhoo I'm sorry you are going through this. I need to make a trip out your way soon before it's unbearably hot.
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