dental fillings while pregnant

[Mog]

I need a medium size filling on a back tooth. The dentist doesn't want to give me a silver one while pregnant, so my options are a temporary filling until after baby, a cover to prevent further decay or going private and having a white filling. I decided to go for the last one but I read on one of the dental threads that white fillings might not be the best for back teeth. Can anyone give me any more details/their experience of this?

Thanks, Robin, I thought 2nd teeth formed later than that too, but as this was a young, recently qualified, dentist I assumed she knew better than me!

Irn Bru is a bright orange fizzy drink, probably much much more toxic than coke!!! (And FULL of sugar.)

heehee Rosy, like you I have often eaten sweets given to my kids, for the sake of their teeth you understand

Tissy the irn bru thing is really embedded in the culture in parts of Scotlasnd, isn't it? I have read that Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca Cola is not the top selling soft drink but I don't know if this is true
.You really have to hand it to them for their phenomenally successful marketing campaigns.

Janh the six year old molars do start to form in late pregnancy so I suppose it is theoreticaly possible the problem dates back to then. However the crowns of the teeth go on forming throughout the first 3 years of the child's life so if the enamel damage is uniform on all the teeth it won't be anything to do with you or your pregnancy. Enamel defects are quite common on these teeth.
The proposed orthodontic extraction of the six year molars instead of the more usual first premolars gives a very good result.Is your son okay about having teeth extracted?

Rosy re. electric toothbrushes - they are great if you are not too nifty with a normal brush, or if you like gadgets , and they can be useful for persuading reluctant children to brush their teeth.
They were discussed recently on mumsnet and several people said they really liked using them and felt their teeth were cleaner as a result. You don't NEED one to make a good job of cleaning your teeth though.

Thanks, Jasper - it is wonderful being able to ask you these things! - I do know of a few other children with this problem so was hoping it wasn't just me!

Don't know yet how he will be about extractions. He used to be completely hopeless in the dentist's chair, ticklish and wriggling all the time, but can now sit perfectly still and can just cope with impressions, though I thought he wasn't going to last out without throwing up for the last one.

He hasn't had injections yet either. My other kids have all had the premolar extractions done and found the injections the worst part, but with these teeth being so much further back I don't know how it'll be...His orthodontist told me that those used to be the ones that were routinely removed, rather than the premolars, because they left more space (and in the right place) for the wisdom teeth, and they were likely to be in poorer condition than the premolars - I have always found it a bit sad taking home those beautiful perfect teeth in a little plastic pot! - but the profession switched to taking the premolars because it made the rearrangement simpler.

You are most wellcome Janh.
I don't think the procedure for extracting a molar will be any more or less uncomfortable for your boy than premolar extractions.
Believe me I always feel a bit sad too about taking out those perfect little teeth! It is often a child's very first experience of actual dental treatment but most of them cope with it very well.
Absolutely right about the 6s leaving a better end result regards wisdom teeth in later life. It always seems especially unkind to have to take out a 25 year old's impacted wisdom teeth when they had four premolars extracted ten years previously!