Discoloured teeth - 8 year old

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Hi

My 8 year old DD has brownish discolouration to her top two adult teeth. I can’t for the life of me remember whether they were always like this or whether it’s gradually appeared. We’ve been to the dentist today and he’s said her teeth are v healthy. I mentioned the discolouration as a few kids at school have made comments and she’s a bit self conscious of late.
The dentist, quite quickly, said ‘it’s a normal variant, some teeth are like this, it’s nothing to do with dental hygiene, it won’t get better with age and she can have them whitened when she’s 18’.
If this is the case, fine. We’ll deal with it. I’ve just got a niggle that I want to be sure this advice is absolutely correct because if there’s anything that can be done (ie a good polish with a hygienist) to reduce the risk of bullying, I’m keen to hear.
Anyone have any experience to share?! TIA

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I had something similar but much darker stains. Dentist said it was from excess fluoride (swallowing toothpaste) If it is this then the teeth themselves are healthy and it’s seen as a cosmetic issue. I had veneers on them as an adult after many years of being bullied as a child. On a positive my teeth are strong and I’ve not had any fillings!

My DD has this quite bad on her top front teeth, it's lack of enamel in her case due to having penicillin as a baby. It also caused 1 of her back teeth to have zero enamel and had to be removed. Dentist said she was lucky as usually it would be 4 back teeth (1 each side top & bottom) that could be damaged by antibiotics.

Been told may fade in time or she could have treatment as an adult

My 10 year old is the same mentioned it to dentist a while back she said its normal and we went for a check up other day and said all is fine. Drives me mad mad tho I'm always on his case about brushing.

My son had discoloured teeth caused by a mild case of enamel hypoplasia, we too were told there was nothing that could be done until he was 18, on another visit to the dentist I mentioned he’d become really self conscious and wouldn’t smile, thanks to the teasing at school, on the basis of this we got referred and he had composite veneers over the top of his teeth, non invasive, doesn’t hurt, he will have to have them redone at some stage and now he’s 18 we’ll have to pay private, I think about £150 -£200 per tooth.