“Your child has a cavity.”
Not many parents want to hear those words, especially if their child has dental anxiety.
Last summer, I saw a three year old child who needed to have a filling on one of his upper molars.
The only reason he sat still in the chair long enough for us to remove the decay and get a filling put in was because we told him we were going to give him a yellow colored filling.
He loved tractors, and wanted it to be yellow like his toy tractor. When he was all done, we took a picture of it and gave it to him so he could show his friends and family.
I’ve found that giving children a colored filling (along with some other things we do to make the comfortable), helps them to sit in the dental chair and get their mentalhealthupdate.com needed dental work completed.
Find out why baby teeth need to have fillings if they just fall out.
Colored Fillings
Colored fillings are made of the same composite materials as tooth-colored fillings, they simply have more exciting coloring added to them.
At our office, we have five colors to choose from: blue, green, yellow, orange, and pink.
To the right, you can see how the pink filling looks on a tooth – it’s what most of the girls end up choosing. That filling, as well as the green one above, was placed to fill in a cavity that formed between the teeth, which is one of the more common places you can get a cavity.
While we can do a colored filling to repair most cavities in baby teeth, nobody has had us do one on a front tooth yet!
That article only showed pictures of the two lower teeth coming in. I figured that it would also be helpful to show what the upper two teeth look like while coming in.
1 – Congestion
The answer is no — there is no evidence that taking fluoride supplements during pregnancy helps improve the baby’s chances of having healthier teeth.
1. Baby Teeth
Nowadays, kids are demanding more and more from the tooth fairy.
When I was out visiting my sister last summer, she told me that my nephew had to get an extra tooth removed. She told me I could even take a picture and put it up on Oral Answers.
Last month, the 
3 -Frozen Carrots & Bananas. Frozen bananas are a sweet treat that can ease your baby’s sore gums. If your baby chews on a frozen carrot, only small bits of carrot come off at a time. Some parents don’t want to give their children frozen objects because they don’t want to inadvertently freeze their baby’s gums by giving them something so cold. If you want to play it safe, just go with a cold carrot, as pictured above.
As we get older, our mamelons will naturally wear off if our teeth fit together properly. If you have an open bite or your front teeth don’t touch each other when you bite down, your mamelons probably won’t wear down and you might consider having a dentist smooth them down if you don’t like the way they look.
The short answer to this question is no. Your baby does not need teething biscuits. Certain babies may not be ready for solid foods such as teething biscuits. As a parent, you know your baby better than anyone else and can probably make the best decision as to whether or not teething biscuits are right for your child. Here are a few advantages to teething biscuits:
Even though they do end up falling out, baby teeth are important! When they’re healthy, they can help children eat healthy foods. When baby teeth get infected, they can damage the permanent teeth developing under them and in severe cases they can cause brain infections. If you missed my earlier article, you can read it to learn 
1 – Irritability and pain were reported by parents 
Any time a tooth suffers an injury, there is a possibility that it may turn a different color. If you’re wondering what it means if your child’s tooth has turned pink, red, gray, black, brown, or yellow, then you’re the reason I wrote this article!
This is a tricky question and in order to answer it, we need to define exactly what a fever is. If we define a fever as a temperature above 102º, then the answer is usually pretty clear that teething does not cause a major fever over 102 degrees.
One of the main reasons that we like to see children at such a young age is so that we can catch small problems before they turn into large catastrophes. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has said, “Unrecognized dental disease can result in exacerbated problems which lead to more extensive and expensive care, whereas early detection and management of oral conditions can improve a child’s oral health, general health and well-being, and school readiness.”
At my dental school, we follow the guideline from the American Dental Association that a child should have his or her first dental visit within six months of getting their first tooth, or before they turn 1. Whichever comes first. So if your little girl gets her first tooth at 4 months, it is recommended that she visit the dentist no later than six months later, which would be at 10 months.
The American Academy of Pediatric dentistry recommends that a child should first see the dentist by their first birthday. Here’s what they say on their website:
1 – The baby teeth are placeholders for the permanent teeth. The body naturally loses baby teeth in a certain order to allow enough room for the permanent teeth to come in. If the teeth fall out earlier, you disrupt this order and there may not be enough room for the permanent teeth. Luckily, a dentist can make an appliance called a 
Recently, an Oral Answers article, 
I asked him about it recently, and he told me he wasn’t sure how it happened. We suspected that my mom unknowingly took some sort of antibiotic that stained his teeth when she was pregnant with him or that he had taken something as a kid. He couldn’t remember.
Gemination is when one developing tooth has split off into two distinct teeth that remain attached to each other and develop together. Gemination comes from the latin word geminus which means twin. You can think of gemination as two “twins” that are permanently attached.
Sometimes parents think that their children’s teeth have something wrong with them when they first notice these serrated edges on their kids’ front teeth.
In the picture to the left, you can see how the lower teeth of a six year old child might appear with a missing baby tooth — the first molar. Let’s say that this kid didn’t brush his teeth a lot and ended up needing his first molar extracted because of a large cavity that couldn’t be fixed.
Let’s say there’s a giant crowd of people waiting in line for the chance to read the latest article on Oral Answers. Now suppose that one person decides he’s sick and tired of waiting and decides to leave. When he leaves, there is a small opening in the crowd where he used to be excitedly waiting. Does the crowd leave that space open? No! The people that were waiting right next to the space where that guy used to be waiting move to fill it in the empty space that he left behind.
The American Dental Association estimates that by the time kids graduate from high school, one in three boys and one in four girls will have suffered some sort of traumatic injury to their teeth. Also, baby teeth are a lot easier to knock out than permanent teeth because their crowns (the top part of the tooth that is visible in the mouth) are a lot longer than their roots (the bottom part of the tooth that’s hidden under the gums.)
ometimes this can be a good thing, like if your orthodontist has to extract a tooth due to crowding. After the tooth is extracted, the teeth adjacent to it move together and line up perfectly to create a beautiful smile.
