18 month old has a black tooth!

[Bearslikehoneyintheirtummy]

I noticed it this morning when she opened her mouth. It is a molar which is only half way through. I feel like a terrible mother and am too afriad to tell my husband!!
Please tell me this is unlikely to be a rotton tooth.
She eats healthily,has a bit of chocolate on occasions (not sweets though) and drinks mainly milk or water. I brush her teeth every evening as well as I can and she doesnt mind it.

I think they can go black when just bruised so the trauma of the tooth coming through could have caused blood to get inside the tooth giving the black appearance.

Really Sancerre?! Thank God there are alternative reasons! I should really take her to see a dentist soon anyway.

I noticed today my 18month also has a black molar, looks like hes had a huge grey filling put in there. I have booked him in to see a dentist. His other teeth are gleaming white and like Bearlikehoneyintheirtummy he also only has water and milk with the odd bit of baby biscuits here and there. I havnt done anything different that I didnt do with my 6 year old, so it will be interesting to see what the dentist says. I will let you know what theyt say.

i don't often post on here but feel your pain and wanted to help a teeny bit if I can - my 2.5 yo daughter had a tooth right at the back grow down looking like it had a filling in it. I was telling anyone who would listen. She was dairy intolerant until she was about 18 months, which had always concerned me for the obvious calcium reasons. Given I'm "fastidious" about their teeth according to my friends, my MIL and my own mother I was choked. She and her older brother both hand me their party bags for contraband sweets which kind of summarises my paranoia about their teeth (my own are shocking) Took her to a (nasty) dentist who accused me of lying about her diet, said "only sugar rots teeth so you need to stop feeding her sugar" and after traumatising her refused her a sticker "No, you cried". Hmm. Well, he reduced me to tears that's for sure.

Anyway, then took her to a very lovely dentist who said it's grown down decalcified and it's very, very common. It will take some nursing and fluoride is the answer. It's not added to the water here so we need to be really careful and he'll see what he can do to nurse it through till she's about 13 when it will fall out. Couldn't have been a tooth that falls out early eh?

I know this isn't totally cheerful but will hopefully stop any guilt or any of that other stuff that goes through your head. PS her other teeth are GORGEOUS.

Thanks Tickle and sorry - same here, the rest of her teeth are lovely and white! My daughter had a lot of food allergies up until she was about 12 months sorry including milk (she had Nutramigen prescribed)

oooh, ours too - did love the cabbagey smell in particular, we didn't miss that one little bit. Sorry, haven't been online for a few days but also remembered there's a possibility when she's older of flouride treatment to nurse the tooth through. I'm sure if you have a good dentist they'll put your mind at rest. I noticed last night that she's chewed some of the grey bit off already, which is worrying. A friend of mine said her eldest son's entire front teeth grew down decalcified and he's now a strapping teenager with perfectly normal teeth, so hopefully that's reassuring too.

Good luck :-)