I have just got back from a horrendous trip to the dentist... my son needs to have a number of his back teeth out including one adult tooth at the back, he is only 7 😩. Absolutely devastated and feel terrible.... I knew he hadn't been brushing his back teeth properly despite me telling him so I’d bought him a new smart tooth brush that tells him where he needs to brush but it seems like it’s too little too late after this trip.
I said about this to the dentist and she said that although the toothbrush would help, it’s his diet and that we would need to cut the juice and sugar to stop it getting any worse.
Now my son is the worst at drinking water and has been like that since a baby but I’ve told him that he is just gonna have to do it now and that’s that. He can just have squash/ fruit shoots occasionally.
Breakfast is usually cereal as that’s what he likes but I can think of lots of alternatives and not that worried about changing that to something low sugar.
Snacks he always has fruit = more sugar
But we also have pudding every day 🙈 we always have and I always did as a child... he usually has an ice lolly or a cake bar etc.
Now I’m keen to change this to a sugar free or very low sugar option but can’t think of anything. I can think of yoghurts and fruit but I think that is probably not that good in terms of his teeth either.
Anybody have any ideas or recipes?
I already feel awful and I didn’t actually think his diet was that awful as he eats a lot of fruit and a lot of veg and is no where close to overweight but obviously it was too high in sugar and It’s going to change but can’t think of what to give him for afters now.... do you think fruit would be ok? Or is eating fruit daily too much?
I would rather not completely cut pudding if I can help it as it’s kind of part of our family routine but obviously will if I need to.
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Auey · 22/07/2019 12:27
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