Yellow Spot on Tooth

If you start using a toothpaste, which I did as soon as little teeth started apearing, use a NON- Floride, infant toothpaste. They don't recomend using floride until the child is old enough to spit out toothpaste and not swallow any of it. It is harmful if swallowed (on the warning lable on the box- scary huh?) and floride can cause tooth staining if they are exposed to high levels of it.

My daughter had one on her front tooth also. She is now 4 and it is still slightly there. Brushing will help. Use an infant/baby toothbrush with the training toothpaste. It may start to go away. Do you give her juice? If youdo, I would say stop w/ her being only 7 month and there is way too much sugar in it. I have a 9 month old son and the only drink he gets besides formula is water. Good luck.

As soon as my daughter got her first tooth our ped. told us brush them with infant toothpaste she teethed really early as well. I would brush her teeth after every meal at least 3 times a day and before bedtime hopefully that will help. If it does not go away you might want to talk with your doctor because it could be a flouride stain from to much flouride in your water.

It sounds like your daughter has what we call Hypoplasa enamel (I hope I spelled that correctly). The primary teeth buds begin to form within the first six weeks of pregnancy. Any number of things can affect that formation and cause this problem. Especially morning sickness early in the pregnancy. Sounds crazy doesn't it. It is simply areas in on the tooth surface where the enamel didn't form it's outer layer completely. They are more prone to becoming decayed because the enamel is the first defense againest cavities. You are doing the right thing to clean the teeth with a cloth or an infant toothbrush. I would avoid the toothpaste for now. The infant toothpaste does not have fluoride therefore they are really just for flavor. Fluoride is actually considered toxic if swallowed and at that age they get enough tummy aches as it is without any help. If you give her juice of any sort make sure that you are dilluting it by at least 50% (or more) with water. After bottles, I would follow with a small sip of water as milk remains in the mouth pooled around teeth and when it begins to break down it breaks down into sugars. Consider these areas (there will probably be more) to be weak areas and you really want them to have a fighting chance. It will be important with her to make those appointments every 6 months with a pediatric dentist. Most of which will go ahead and get you in before age one if you have an area of concern. Keep in mind that most children that have this on their primary teeth, don't have any problems with their permanant, but there is a small percentage that does, so just keep an eye out. Good luck and keep up the good work with her!

J.
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My son (almost 3 y-o) has several of those yellow spots & they are usually where a peak should be but isn't. Two different pediatric dentists told me the same thing: the enamel (or actual tooth) didn't finish making in the womb. As you heard before, just brush religiously (not fanatically) b/c those areas are less protected against decay. Brushing however won't make the yellow go away. Cavities, if they form, can be filled w/ basically no big deal. One of my son's spots was starting a cavity so the pediatric dentist said we could wait 6 months or fill it now. I said fill it...so they velcroed him into a cocoon-type "suit" so he couldn't really move (he liked it) and gave him laughing gas (he liked it) and they prepped and filled it in like 4 minutes (filling is white tooth color), no shots or anything major, then the laughng gas wore off in a minute or two. I was told that just b/c his baby teeth are like this doesn't mean his permanent teeth will be.

it could be too much floride. you should take her to a dentist or at least call one. they can tell you the best thing to do

It is usually due to the lack of enamel. I was also told by my pedi. because that wasn't the case for my son that it could've been due to the amount of penicillin he had taken as an infant, which can cause staining. Not sure how true this is or if it even helped.

Good Luck!

Hi B.,
My son had the same thing on his front tooth around the age his teeth grew in. You can't get into the dentist until they're 1 yr of age and when I took him the dentist said it wasn't cavities it was lack of enamel and it formed like that when he was in my womb.
She said if it was caused from bottle feeding the spot would be higher up on the teeth, not on the bottom part. One thing to check for is make sure the yellow spot does not become soft. If it's still hard when you touch it (like you can't put a toothpick through it, is how the dentist put it) then it doesn't need to be fixed right away.

Just make sure to keep it clean like you're doing and you can get a toothpaste made for infants in the toothpaste isle. It's perfectly safe if she swallows some but just use a very small amount.
When she turns 1, have her seen by a dentist but don't worry yourself about it! She'll be just fine and my son is 21 mths old now and still has his yellow spot on his tooth. The dentist says as long as it's not soft then there's no point in putting him to sleep so young to fix it.
Take Care!

I would not use toothpaste since kids won't spit it out, they swallow. Check with your dentist, it is the safest route and recommendation.
K.

You can see a pedi DDS as soon as they have teeth. Call around and get an appt. It never hurts to have someone check. Sometimes the enamel just doesn't form right.