wha.. just reaslied that my dental post is soo long...
RE: Rae dental visit tomorrow.
U all know rae has this very bad staining on her teeth, her teeth is stained black in colour (some of u mummies had seen it). I started seeing this stain after her first 4 teeth came out. no amount of brushing and scrubbing can get rid of it. When she was about 14 - 15 mths old, thru shannie's contact, i brought her to see a dentist but it was extremely tuff to look at her teeth then as she would refused to open her mouth. she was crying so badly thruout the session. The dentist check and mentioned that it is a form of bacteria that caused the discolouration. It will not affect her teeth and the only way is to scale and polish when she is older. Now that she is 2, my colleage referred me to her PD dentist and i tot i just wanted a 2nd opinion as well as i think its time for her to get a propoer check on her teeth.
The dentist Dr Ong is so gentle (she is a 40 plus woman), she speaks very softly and gently type. I think she is ok lah. She read a book on brushing some animals teeth with Rae at the start of the session, She even gave her the dentist hand mirror and ask her to check the lion and hippo's teeth. There is this paper tooth brush in the book, she took it out and she asked rae to bush the lion's teeth. The whole process quite cute. Surprising, rae was so ok throughout the session. i think she had fun checkinga nd bruhing the lion;s teeth. The dentist asked me which tooth paste i was using, i said 1st teeth. She mentioned, 90% of her patients who came with staining issue were using 1st teeth. She said actually below 3, we dun have to use any tooth paste , just water and towel. And if we see any hard stains, just put a tiny amt of adult toothpaste on the towel, scrub and wipe off thats all. Only when they are above 3 and can spit very regularly and can spit all the water out easily, then we can intro tooth paste. Apparently the 1st teeth alterted the enviroment in her mouth causing the bacteria to form and to stain her teeth. she said this is her observation as she didn't do any research and she cannot stop the sale of the prdt. She sounded convincing, and i think as a precautionary measure, i will stop using 1st teeth from now. infact, i threw away all my 1st teeth. told MIl to just use water.
She proceeded to polish rae's teeth, she was very ok thru out the whole procedure, she only cried a bit when the polishing device touched her tongue. She was damn fast too, very firm but very gentle throughout, i like
Now Rae's teeth is soo white, no more stains at all.! i am very happy!!
Side track, apparently rae was lucky to get this stains.. cos i was BFing her all the way till 2 weeks ago.. and rae used to demand to be latched at night when she is sleeping and it was becos of the stains that created a protective layer around her teeth which is one of the reason why she did not get any cavaties or tooth decay from the prolong night latching.I guess it was also lucky that we had the stains to protect her teeth.
The session is expensive.. consultation already $90 plus and with the polishing, its $150!but i think it was worth it lah cos i had been very worried about her teeth for a long time. at least now i can confirm that she has very good and healthy teeth. no worries about decay. I dun mind paying $90 plus per consultation.. will try and bring her at least once a year to check, till she is old enuff to visit a regular dentist. PD dentist really different..thinkthey put in a lot of effot to make the kid at ease. There is even a TV playing cartoon in the room and she wore a very cute cartonny top..hehe