Fluoride releasing filling...

[Mommy&Will]

in my 4 year old's mouth?

Can anyone give me information on this type of cavity filling?

DS has three cavaties. We had not been using fluoride toothpaste until recently - I was so shocked he had cavaties I wondered if it was because we were fluoride free or what.

Now our pediatric dentist suggests this type of filling, and of course says its slow releasing at low levels.

Where can I learn more?

[momtoNatalee]

I have never heard of fluoride releasing fillings.... if it were me, I'd never go back there! EVER!

I think cavaties are a lot to do w/ the individual and not what you use to clean your teeth. My parents have 8 kids and we all ate basically the same diet and brushed daily w/ fluoride toothpaste and half of us had major cavities and half of us had none or me who's had 2.

We are anti-fluoride here... we try and eat carrots after/during meals to help keep teeth clean and use flouride free toothpaste.

I'm sure googling "fluoride filling dangers" would bring up some info, but I haven't heard of this before.... and I hope I am reading wrong!

[vioburn]

I was given one of those this summer, because my cavity was almost to the nerve. For a child, I would not do that. I will probably get my filling taken out, in the future, or have the tooth pulled. It made me nervous, but I hadn't really read or looked into it much, until more recently.

[SleeplessMommy]

Might be glass iomomer cement...

[Katjon]

My 4 year old had them put in his 2 front teeth. The 2 teeth were pushed together so a cavity formed between them. They go in easier and are more flexible then standard white fillings (I do not allow metal fillings at all in either of my boys and they would never have put them in front teeth anyway where we go). I was concerned about the flouride and voiced it to the dentist. He does not like a lot of flouride either but he said there was a strong chance the other kind would pop out because young teeth are flexible and they do not bond as well. I did not like the idea but because of where they were they were the better choice. I will not use them in other teeth where the filling coming loose is a problem and my dentist would not either. I guess the shot of the long is it depends on where they're going. Molar I would say no, front teeth it sounds like they were the best at bonding. I'd rather have the flouride then have to keep bringing him back all the time to have things redone.