AIBU to feel cheated about DD's teeth? (Pic included)

[Notplannedforthis]

DD9 has come home from school upset that another DC has been making remarks about her "rotten teeth".

DD has yellow/brown discoloration on her front teeth and I can't fathom why.

She doesn't like sweets or fruit, never drinks fruit juice or pop, didn't have a dummy, didn't have bottles, eats a mostly healthy diet, had fluoride treatments and regular dentist appointments up until the pandemic, we brush her teeth twice a day in quadrants using an electric tooth brush.

We've tried so hard to keep her teeth healthy. AIBU to be annoyed that despite this, DD is still having to put up with comments about her teeth? Why on earth are they brown?

Take her to the dentist and get a referral if the dentist can’t deal with it. DS2 had this - but worse - when about 6/7. Dentist thought it was something deep within the teeth causing it and referred us to dental hospital (Liverpool). Some of the comments in other posts above eg antibiotic use etc were mentioned. Dentist at the hospital took one look at it and polished it all off and said the dentist could have done it. She made it clear that it wouldn’t come off with good brushing, and that it wasn’t poor dental hygiene on our part, it needed the polishing. It never came back.

My daughter has it from inhaler use. Or so I’m led to believe.

I gave my daughter fluoride drops she had discolouration on one tooth but her daughter now has this much worse I think it can pass down in generations

Two of my DDs swim and they get discolouration from the chlorine. It comes off with a clean at the dentist

My DS gets this but dentist polishes it right off. I always put it down to penicillin. He’s also on asthma inhalers

Another vote for fluorosis ; when DTs were small it was the thing to use fluoride drops we were living abroad and the water was naturally heavily fluorated. DD was affected more than DS. She is adult now and looked into getting her teeth capped but has come to terms with it now. As pp said, it makes for strong teeth. I fo regret it, but that was the advice at the time.

I agree with the hygenist - it looks like staining to me. If you can afford it book her an appt to have her teeth cleaned by a hygenist and you'll know for sure. But yes sorry kids can be cruel and you both have a right to be upset.

Another dentist here agreeing that it’s surface stain. If it hasn’t been there since the teeth came through then it’s not developmental. Surprising things can cause stain, red/purple/blue berries for example…

Well, as long as this thread has been resurrected again,
@Notplannedforthis -- what was the verdict at her dental
appoinment at the end of March?
If you get a chance, can you give an update, please?
I hope it was just surface staining. . . .

This happened to my daughter. One visit to the dentist and a polish they are as good as new (it was just the top two adult teeth that became stained. No idea why as she has a decent diet, but fairly common according to dentist).

I’ve commented on this thread twice before but as PP says in our case it was also just the top front two teeth. The problem was literally sorted in a few minutes at the dental hospital and the dentist there reported back to our own dentist what it needed in case it came back, but it never has.

Enamel hyperplasia. My son has it. After braces he can have his front teeth capped with white filling material to cover it up. Theres a fb group if you search it.

can't say I've noticed whether she's a mouth breather.

Breathing through the nose with mouth closed has a lot of benefits. The nose has a system of mucus and fine hairs to filter out lots of germs and warm the air before it enters the body.

It's one of the easiest and most useful things you can do to boost your child's well-being.

Another hygienist - it does just look like surface staining, rather than staining within the tooth itself. I would love to know what the dentist said.