2yr old TEETH, yellow... why?

[boozybird]

hello,
my 22mo ds mostly has beautiful white milk teeth, but the ones at the bottom, the front four between his canines, are yellow - the colour someone's teeth go when they haven't been brushed for ages... he is not brilliant at brushing his teeth, he tends to suck more than brush, but i rub his teeth with a damp muslin and toothpaste, top and bottom, to get the plaque off, and always have done really. the point is, it's nothing to do with not having clean teeth, it's the colour of the actual teeth. it's noticable to people other than me, the paranoid mum.
what can it be? his father and i both have very strong teeth, not yellow at all.
hmmmn.

Has your ds had a lot of antibiotics in the past? I've heard that it can strip the protective layer of enamel off young teeth. If he has, one consolation is that these are baby teeth, not permanent adult ones.

Hope this helps, I've heard of a few cases recently! So difficult if they really need antibiotics though.

I was told by our dentist that if your child is ill at the crucial time when the teeth are forming then they can come through discoloured. There is obviously nothing you can do about this and she said not to worry as the next lot would probably be fine and they were. If they hadn't been fine she said they had diferent ways of re-colouring them to look good.