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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How the fuck does a 3 year old get any cavities, much less 10?

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oooh boy, let me introduce you to the joy that is pediatric dentistry. I perform anesthesia at some peds dental places. Not unheard of to put full crowns or multiple extractions on kids under 3. I'm talking like at least one a day is that bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't their teeth just going to fall out? Why put them through the pain of a crown instead of just pulling it?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

You also need your baby teeth to be present in order for your adult teeth to grow in properly. The entire jawbone changes as teeth grow and develop.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It does become an open wound in a real gross place for a while after pulling, I'd think any doctor of any sort would like to keep that to a minimum. You also don't want to leave them bare without a crown because they'll still have them for a while at least and cavities hurt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Standard American diet on crack

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Corn syrup in literally everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Crowns on baby teeth? Wack, just pull those fuckers imo, they'll be back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been sat on a bus after work one time (maybe 10 years ago now) and I saw a mother open a 2L bottle of coke and fill up a bottle with a teet and pass it to a kid who was no older than 3.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

What in the actual fuck? This is why education is important. Well, this is one example of why.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My stomach hurts just reading that. Not sure if I should watch it or not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's infuriating more than anything. There are a wide array of reasons why parents in this docu get to this point, but there was only one family I felt sad for, rather than enraged.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone with a newborn, this terrifies me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

At someone whose “newborns” are graduating to adulthood, this is terrifying. Through good genetics, adequate resources, and doing our best, we got two kids through with only one cavity, and that was a medicine side effect. Who are these parents who could do that to their child?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Diet and oral care are very important, even for babies and toddlers!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is simply not true, about breast feeding and cavities. Studies show that there are other factors at play, mainly linked to socioeconomic status, sugary/starchy diet and whether their water has fluoride in it or not.

https://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/resources/breastfeeding-and-tooth-decay

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love when people like this tell me how the gov poisons the water with fluoride in it... always fire back and say I like my teeth...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Aye but then yous get those happy-valley-teeth that look like someone's taken a photo of your gob at ISO95376 tho 😂