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my 3.5 year old needs to go under anastesia to have dental work says his dentist. He's had bad teeth since he was about 9 months old. They always blame my breastfeeding, but because my husband drinks soda...he's was "allowed" to drink it from an early age. I know its bad and he doesn't drink it anymore. He also was "allowed" to eat a lot of junk food which I feel contributed more to his tooth decay (more so than breastfeeding would). I've cut that down dramatically as well. At 9 month old we were told to get the work done soon, but not to hold off too long because they would get worse. about 2 years old we went back and they said his 3 cavities had gone up to about 6 and we should get work done ASAP, but we couldn't aford the anastesia. So we kept putting it off. since then we've had another baby...my husband lost his job...got a new job...we finally got insurance who would cover it, but since my infant son has had some hospital care since then we have a lot of medical bills and we still can't afford the surgury. I made my husband come with me to the dentist this last week so he could see how serious a problem the teeth thing was. It really hit home to him and he is now onboard with my strict no soda...very limited sweets rules...but half of my sons teeth they say have cavities...
I can count at least 3-4 when I look at them. I brush like a crazy woman, and he spits so we even use flouride toothpaste. I'm scared of the risks of the surgury but don't know what else to do. Any thing I should be thinking of? What should I do? We obviously can't do anything until we get money anyways, but I'm afraid of it getting any worse.
my 3.5 year old needs to go under anastesia to have dental work says his dentist. He's had bad teeth since he was about 9 months old. They always blame my breastfeeding, but because my husband drinks soda...he's was "allowed" to drink it from an early age. I know its bad and he doesn't drink it anymore. He also was "allowed" to eat a lot of junk food which I feel contributed more to his tooth decay (more so than breastfeeding would). I've cut that down dramatically as well. At 9 month old we were told to get the work done soon, but not to hold off too long because they would get worse. about 2 years old we went back and they said his 3 cavities had gone up to about 6 and we should get work done ASAP, but we couldn't aford the anastesia. So we kept putting it off. since then we've had another baby...my husband lost his job...got a new job...we finally got insurance who would cover it, but since my infant son has had some hospital care since then we have a lot of medical bills and we still can't afford the surgury. I made my husband come with me to the dentist this last week so he could see how serious a problem the teeth thing was. It really hit home to him and he is now onboard with my strict no soda...very limited sweets rules...but half of my sons teeth they say have cavities...
I can count at least 3-4 when I look at them. I brush like a crazy woman, and he spits so we even use flouride toothpaste. I'm scared of the risks of the surgury but don't know what else to do. Any thing I should be thinking of? What should I do? We obviously can't do anything until we get money anyways, but I'm afraid of it getting any worse.