to ask how this happens

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child aged 3 - 4 having to have several teeth removed due to severe damage! I know of 2 children who had this and have to ask how
how excessive does the sugar intake have to be? My dd has something sweet everyday, not sweets so much, but maybe biscuits or chocolate. This petrifies me. We visit the dentist regularly.
There is no choice about brushing teeth twice a day but its not for 2 minutes..
do these kids eat sugar from a bowl? or not brush at all? or is there some underlying problem?
Please enlighten me...

My Dd 4 also has dreadful back teeth, We have a bit of a problem at the moment as our dentist has 'left the practice without giving any notice' (She was a very naughty lady!!) She wasn't the best dentist we've had, she always painted flouride on dd's back teeth instead of sorting the problem. Dd doesn't eat sweets ie pastilles etc, she will eat plain chocolate now and then and always has her teeth brushed twice a day.
We now have to wait for a dentist so we can get this sorted, (we will have to go to a different practice but run by the same company!)

i worked in community dental for years

every monday would be extraction day for school aged children (and under, some not more than 18 months old)

Many many many would have 5 6 7 8 teeth removed because of decay

heartbreaking - and the mondays were booked up for months and months in advance

My DS has got what is called hypoplastic enamel, ie it never formed properly. Chalky teeth is the more common name, as it makes the teeth come through bright matt white instead of shiny off-white of normal enamel.

I flagged this to the dentist early on, once I'd noticed the colour difference, and she confirmed it. She said that there is not usually a problem with adult teeth when this happens, but nobody quite knows why some children have this.

I did some research, because I had quite bad hyperemesis while pg and didn't eat for weeks. It was quite easy to find lots of comments from other mums who had hyperemesis and then babies with hypoplasia. If you're not eating plenty of calcium at the point the teeth are supposed to be being enamelled, it won't happen. So I figure that was the cause in my case.

Dentist said the easiest thing is to try and control by diet. No juice, no fruit in juice and no citrus fruits. And no raisins! She'd also have us have no chocolate or sweets but that we just make sure is a treat half an hour before the toothbrush comes out! We have to watch vit C of course, but so far so good, and he's 3.4.

He tells people off if they try and give him juice! since he's 1/4 Irish.

by the time i was 4 i had all my teeth removed apart from the 4 front ones, its caused me no end of problems through life, the adult teeth were overcrowded as they had no milk teeth to guide them in so they were wonky, Im 28 and due to have surgery on my gums and part of jaw removed due to milk teeth having to be removed, they all were rotten due to the hv's at the time saying Ribena was a good source of vitamin C and to give it to me as a toddler! due to this im now the teeth police and dont let my 8 month old have juice, my doctor told me last week to give him pure orange juice!!! to get him to drink more!! if advice doesnt change poor kids will need their teeth removed more and more!!

Dentist said to me that the only things a growing child should drink are milk and water. Ever.

We have encouraged milk drinking by saying to DS that it will make him grow big and strong like his Grandad! (Who is fitter in his 70s than we are in our 40s )