Any dentists about? Why is my daughter having so many problems with her teeth?

[castille]

She is 9, and for the past couple of years she has had endless dental problems. She seems to have very thin enamel, so has had a few fillings in her remaining milk teeth. Recently one milktooth got all infected inside so had to be extracted. Now she has an abcess under another milk tooth. Plus her permanent teeth are pretty yellow and it bothers her a lot.

It seems so unfair, and the poor girl has developed a major phobia of going to the dentist. I am very careful about oral hygiene and she has always brushed her teeth thoroughly twice a day, plus has been using a mouthwash recently so why is all this happening? Is it just bad luck? What, if anything, can be done to strengthen and whiten her permanent teeth? Seeing the dentist this week, but just wanted other opinions.

Those corn rows took hours to put in and cost a packet. Quite right, too. She had them done in a salon that catered to African-Americans and they needed their most experienced braider to do them for, as she explained, 'White hair is slippier than black hair.'

Sorry back to dentistry Ive switched from an electric toothbrush to a sonar one and found it even better well worth the extra money IMHO my dentist did tell me that some people find them too vigarous but if your dd has tarter build up perhaps she has quite rough teeth like I do so the tarter & plaque find it easy to find somewhere to cling to?

I was just looking at various electric brushes and wondering if the sonic ones are worth the extra expense, as reviews of them vary widely. I had a Braun one until it packed up recently but as she has worse teeth than me maybe she needs a better brush? Don't want her to scrub her gums away though!

with the sonar you don't actually brush, it's completely diferent. My friend had gingivitis (where your gums bleed etc) had to see a specialist and was told that she had to get a sonar one. Try and get one with a very small brush head as she only has a small mouth.

You don't brush?! How does that work then?

The brush sits on the teeth and you move it gently backwards/forwards etc and the vibrations fling off the plaque so it's more like holding the brush to your tooth than actual brushing per se!