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melfinn
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- New York State, USA
I have a major phobia of dentist but have finally found one to work with that. But now my son has major dental problems at four and a half. I'm afraid he has my teeth. We have taken care of his teeth but he still has many cavities, his top four front and 8 back/molar teeth. They want to sedate him pull the front four and put stainless steel crowns on the other eight. I know the cavities are there bt don't know how serious it all is. He has only gotten front X-RAYs as he has a horrible gag reflex.
We have CDPHP that we pay a small amount for so basically medicaid we just pay a small amount. My husband wants to wait and see. I having bad teeth all my life want his teeth as healthy as can be. My son aslo only has one functional kidney which worries us both if he is to be sedated.
We put off the last surgery date and my husband is still not on board. I just don't want his adult teeth to be affected. Our surgery date is end of jan but if we are not doing it they want to know right away as they only have one surgery day every two months and it fills up fast. My son doesn't complain but maybe he doesn't even know what the lack of pain feels like. he only eats soft food and has favorites.
My husband thinks they only want to do that amount of work because of the money. IDK it sounds like a lot of decay is goin gon even though we have kept on top of keeping his teeth clean and making to his appointments.
Anyone have advice? Sorry if I posted n wrong place first time on this board. If he only had one or two caries then I'd take the wait and see approach but it seems to be so much. BTW I am 42 and only have 10 of my adult teeth left but my teeth were not taken care of. I mean there wear times when we didn't have toothbrushes or toothpaste. So I thought taking such good care of our sons teeth would make a difference. Thanks for reading all this if you have made it to the end Mel
We have CDPHP that we pay a small amount for so basically medicaid we just pay a small amount. My husband wants to wait and see. I having bad teeth all my life want his teeth as healthy as can be. My son aslo only has one functional kidney which worries us both if he is to be sedated.
We put off the last surgery date and my husband is still not on board. I just don't want his adult teeth to be affected. Our surgery date is end of jan but if we are not doing it they want to know right away as they only have one surgery day every two months and it fills up fast. My son doesn't complain but maybe he doesn't even know what the lack of pain feels like. he only eats soft food and has favorites.
My husband thinks they only want to do that amount of work because of the money. IDK it sounds like a lot of decay is goin gon even though we have kept on top of keeping his teeth clean and making to his appointments.
Anyone have advice? Sorry if I posted n wrong place first time on this board. If he only had one or two caries then I'd take the wait and see approach but it seems to be so much. BTW I am 42 and only have 10 of my adult teeth left but my teeth were not taken care of. I mean there wear times when we didn't have toothbrushes or toothpaste. So I thought taking such good care of our sons teeth would make a difference. Thanks for reading all this if you have made it to the end Mel