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Why my one year baby have some blackness on his teeth.. He is still one year. Please tell me about this
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It might be bottle carries please visit the pedodontist for clinical examination
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Don’t worry may be it’s a bottle caries or nursing caries
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Visit a pedodontics for restoration process
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Upon review these were the findings -
A male child, 1yr old has complain of blackish teeth
Elaborately these are to be done for -
Feeding pattern and cleaning after feed
Provisional diagnosis -
Nursing bottle disease with rampant caries?
Differential diagnosis -
History and clinical review to be done
Diagnostic tests -
Rampant caries pattern of disease
Treatment advise for -
After every feed the child is fed use a clean soft cloth or gauze cloth to dry the teeth by cleaning.
Avoid using milk bottle feeding and keeping in the mouth for long duration.
Rampant caries? need to be addressed with immediate attention by restoration as it affects teeth which are not affected
Prognosis -
good
Next Steps
clinical review for rampant caries
Health Tips
restoration of teeth affected with caries?
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Can you please share the photographs for better diagnosis?
As the blackish discolouration can be due to caries.
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Make sure to clean the buccal vestibule area with wet cotton( area between teeth and cheek ) after feeding.
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Dr. Pia Patel
Dentist
14 yrs exp
Chennai
Hi,
Share picture. Is he taking iron supplements ?
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