Family dental check this morning and while DS and DH are doing the smug “we’re fine” saunter our the door afterwards I am queuing to book two further appointments for FIVE fillings...that’s right FIVE!
So pissed off, we eat a similar diet, follow the same dental care routine and I was only seen 10 months ago.
Thing is I have always always had problems from childhood onwards. Six weeks after I had DS I developed a massive infection under one of my upper teeth. The resulting removal where the anaesthetic didn’t take was up there and beyond fucking childbirth! In all honesty this lead to an absolute phobia of dentists and I avoided them for six years after this. That’s the one thing I have done wrong and since then I have found a lovely dentist and go regularly for check ups and any treatment.
I apparently grind my teeth at night which doesn’t help but I do now have a tooth guard for that.
Two of the five fillings are underneath existing fillings ffs.
So sat here going through my diet, I don’t eat sweets and chocolate very often, I do eat fruit (so fruit sugars a possibility), I drink water mainly now although sometimes I add “no added sugar squash” and I am more than aware that this doesn’t mean “no sugar”.
What else can I do apart from cut fruit, cut the no added sugar squash and keep cleaning my teeth?
So fed up with this. I rarely ever leave a check up without some work to be done. DH hasn’t had a filling EVER....DS has only ever needed orthodontics.
But me......my teeth are shite and I am only in my early 50s.
Dentists/hygienists if you have any pearls (ha) of wisdom do enlighten me. My dentist was talking sugar being too high in my diet but I am guessing this will be hidden sugars as I use little of the stuff (don’t have it on cereal or in the/coffee) .
Help! I don’t want to lose any more teeth.
It has to be my diet in some way right? Or do some people just have appalling teeth which decay more easily?