What do you want me to blog about?
Ok, so I have not posted as much this past year as previously. Things have been so busy around here with our growing practice and in my personal life as well (in a good way). We are spending lots of time on our new office in Madison. So, what to blog about? I get ideas all the time, but now, I am going to ask you. There are a lot of topics covered in my previous posts. All these are listed in the sidebar over there to your right. The topic you are interested in just may be there, so please take a look. If it is not, please let me know what topics you want to know more about. I will take the most popular and try to address them if I think I can be of any help and it seems interesting to me--ha! Please, blogging topics only here, not questions about your particular child's teeth or situation on this particular post, just general topics you would like more information on like sealants retainers, etc. If it pertains to Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics, the Dental Profession, Children, or even life in general, let me know and comment here!
posted by Dr. Dean Brandon @ 7:17 PM
23 comments
23 Comments:
Effect of common salt in food on teeth?
Effect of common salt on cavities and sore gums.
What is caused by a Midline bite
Extractions- when are they necessary, complications that can arise , etc.
Extractions--I like that one.
Dr. Dean!
What an office space! Congrats. I follow your blog from my practice in Madison, WI, not Madison, AL.
My daughter showed me this video and asked me how it could be not fake.
Any idea? I guess this is a just for fun type of post for a friday afternoon, but maybe you'll have a take.
Keep posting! I know you're busy but it's really useful for the rest of us.
Ha! I have no idea about videos. These days I take that stuff with a grain of salt--still funny.
My 14 year old son has to have a root canal for a dental abscess above a back upper molar (permanent tooth). His pediatric dentist can't figure out how it got infected since there are no cavities in the tooth. He does have braces. Could trauma from sports or a loose bracket in his braces have caused an injury we didn't notice? It just doesn't make sense to me but I saw the x-ray and there is definitely an abscess and pus came out when the dentist injected the site for the x-ray. Thanks!
I have not seen that kind of thing from orthodontic treatment--sometimes you can get the ends of the roots resorbing a little but I have not seen an abscess from treatment. Cannot really diagnose that. Sometimes teeth can have periodontal problems, but really I cannot say.
Just wanted to say thank you so much for this blog. I just found out my son, who is 4, needs to have his two top front teeth extracted due to an abcess from previous fillings. I was floored and sad and really upset and questioning the ped. dentist. Went to a second opinion and was told the same. Your blog has made me feel so much better. I kind of took what you said as a third opinion, even though you didn't see my son! (I'm in PA, by the way.) The only thing still of concern is the dentist will not let me back with my son while doing the extractions. I understand the reasoning, by my son had a very, very traumatic experience with a previous dentist and I don't want him to have dental anxiety again and for the rest of his childhood.
Anyway, your general information is wonderful, informative and calming. Wish I lived in AL, we would certainly be coming to your office!
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Ok with me. Just reference the source( this blog). And do not modify or sell etc.
I would like to know about how childhood illnesses can affect the development of permanent teeth devlopment. I am shocked that my 7 year old son has had so many problems with his permanent teeth coming in (weak enamel and decay even before they are fully erupted). My ped. dentist says he was just born this way and all I can think about is how the surgery he had at 3 months old may have affected his tooth development. I've never heard of this before and would like to know more about this. Thank you.
Check out my post on enamel hypplasia
I would love to see a post about your opinion on breastfeeding's effect on teeth. We have been receiving hugely different advice on this issue ranging from it causes extensive decay to it makes no impact whatsoever and have even found articles on the ADA's website saying that it doesn't cause ECC like it was previously believed to. It is very confusing! I've found in our experience with pediatric dentists so far, that many of them have little to no information about the actual mechanics of breastfeeding and assume that with every nursing session that the mouth fills up with breastmilk, which is not true (see La Leche League International, information from Dr. Jack Newman - the world's leading breastfeeding expert, etc.). It seems like something that is so natural and so beneficial to the overall health of the child wouldn't be seen so negatively by so many dentists. Thanks for your blog - I've enjoyed reading through the topics!
Breast milk is very good for a baby. Breast milk has lot's of good things the baby needs, protein, carbohydrates and fats. These are also the things bacteria like too. So, basically you need three things for cavities to form: 1. a vulnerable tooth, the bacteria that couses tooth decay--Streptococcus Mutans, and food for the bacteria. Although breast milk may have a few more chemicals that may inhibit bacteria, as far as feeding the bacteria, the bacteria are just as happy with cows milk as breast milk, as juice. So the risk may be less, but is still there. I have seen breast fed babies with EEC.
So, what are you supposed to do? Most dentists recommend getting off the "bottle" or what they call ad lib brest feeding (at night) by one year of age or so. Still needs the nutrution during the day, but the recommendation is --do not put a baby to sleep with a bottle (after one year of age)--same goes for breast milk. It's ok during the day--but not at night After 12-14 months. One reason is that studies show the bacteria colonize the mouth when the first molars come in at 12 -18 months of age. Of course, all this may change with more research, but at this time that is the recommendation.
Moms will do what mom's feel is best. I don't think dentists view it "negatively", it's just that many have seen the ravages of EEC and all the expense and effort it takes to treat it, that prevention is a priority.
RE breastmilk, that sounds much better than what we've heard so far. The first pediatric dentist we went to said that breastmilk will rot teeth and that a baby should never nurse at night and that I should be brushing my daughter's teeth after every feeding. I recently read on a dental board that there are some dentists that recommended weaning as early as 5 months to avoid problems with ECC.
Well, brushing before bedtime is always a good idea. Good grief, I spelled ECC (Early Childhood Caries) as "EEC". This is why I am a dentist and not an English teacher. Plus a very tiring busy day at the office...
Thank you for your reply. The root canal went smoothly.
Can you discuss dentin dysplasia? Can a food disorder (fructose malabsorbtion cause dentin dysplasia? Where in the US is the best place to take a child who has this disorder?
What is the treatment for Dentin Dysplasia? Could a problem like fructose malabsorption cause Dentin Dysplasia? Is there a pediatric dentist who specializes in this treatment?
Just make sure you see a pediatric dentist. Any dentist may treat the conequences of dentinal dysp. It depends on severity too.
Oh, dentinal dysplasia is usually an inherited autosominal dominant condidtion.
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