my son needs to have teeth out under general anaesthetic. I feel awful, I'm awake at 4am crying about it. I've been taking him to the dentist religiously since his first tooth came through, we don't have juice at home and hardly every have sweets. Dentist thinks it is to do with eating supper close to bed time, even though we always brush. I really wanted to know if anyone else's children had been through this, how painful it is and if it affected the child psychologically afterwards, the teeth he's having removed won't be replaced until he's 10 or 11! That's 4 very important years of social development with huge gaps in his mouth. I'm working myself up so badly about this and feeling like a crap mum, even though I thought I had done everything right.