Ds (4.7) has big hole in bad tooth. Guilt. Dentist has TOTALLY BANNED all sugar/sweets etc.

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We both went to the dentists today. He has a big hole in his back tooth that she filled. She said back milk teeth may not fall out until he was 10, i.e another 5 years, but that filing may regularly fall out.
She has forbidden all sweets chocolate, biscuits, juice, squash. Total ban.
No fruit unless at mealtimes.

Ds eats for england. Snacks on healthy stuff and yes, occassional chocolate biscuit or ice lolly, in between meals.

I feel terrible.

But is she being a bit extreme. On TOTAL BAN ?

sensible advice is IMHO

with meals eat any fruit you want / biscuits / puddings whatever .. juice with meals

as snacks try to avoid apples and citrus fruit .. replace with peppers and carrots, bananas, nuts, crisps etc .. but don't freak if they really fancy a nice piece of fruit

take a lump of cheese after fruit / sweet to help neutralise mouth acids

basically every time you eat your mouth acid rises and takes a good half hour to settle back down again

don't brush teeth directly after eating .. leave at least half hour

eating a whole packet of biscuits at one time is far better than eating one biscuit then another an hour later .. dentally anyway