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My 5 year old needs fillings???

  • 21-05-2013 02:44PM
    #1
    Grahamb23
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    Need your help please....

    The dentist I brought my 5 year old girl to said she needs 2 fillings in her back teeth which will cost my €180 for the two of them to be done.

    Is she entitled to get it done for free anywhere?

    Does she need fillings?

    Can the dentist seal them in some way until they fall out?


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    Have your tired your local health board dental clinic?


  • #3
    Grahamb23
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    William Tender Nitwit wrote: »
    Have your tired your local health board dental clinic?

    No not yet ... What should I ask when I call them? This is a complete first for me and don't even know where to start.


  • #4
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    Ring the clinic, say you child has dental decay and will they see her/him for treatment. There may be a wait as the service is very stretched. Dental hospital is also an option for student treatment.


  • #5
    rooney30
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    As far as I'm aware the HSE have a policy of not filling baby teeth so your best bet would be the dental hospital!


  • #6
    kev1.3s
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    Been through this already this year, little fella was complaining about a pain in his tooth so we brought him to the clinic who said that it should be extracted but we'd have to leave it there until the adult teeth come up so there recommendation was calpol and antibiotics, decided to get a second opinion because it didn't seem right that he should be on antibiotics for the best part of four years so we went to a trusted family dentist who told us that we needed to do a pulpectomy to save the tooth which is eventually what we done. Afaik the dental hospital will only Do extraction and our own dentist was telling us that the hse had issued a notice to all clinics not to fill baby teeth.


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  • #7
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    Regarding not filling baby teeth, I dont enough about this to be expert but there is some science behind this, its not just a money saving exercise. Now I would have my own kids teeth filled having said that, but the HSE have their reasons.


  • #8
    kev1.3s
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    William Tender Nitwit wrote: »
    Regarding not filling baby teeth, I dont enough about this to be expert but there is some science behind this, its not just a money saving exercise. Now I would have my own kids teeth filled having said that, but the HSE have their reasons.

    What ever there reasons they wouldn't in my opinion outweigh filling a child with paracetamol and antibiotics for years! Aside from anything else the antibiotics will cause further decay.


  • #9
    Rasmus
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    Grahamb23 wrote: »
    Need your help please....

    The dentist I brought my 5 year old girl to said she needs 2 fillings in her back teeth which will cost my €180 for the two of them to be done.

    Is she entitled to get it done for free anywhere?

    Does she need fillings?

    Can the dentist seal them in some way until they fall out?

    There is something they do to 'seal' teeth (my son had it done) but I think it is more for older kids. At 5, she is not looking to loose her molars until about 9 or 10 years old so filling them is probably a decent option. However, that seems a bit expensive, have you thought about shopping around?


  • #10
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    kev1.3s wrote: »
    What ever there reasons they wouldn't in my opinion outweigh filling a child with paracetamol and antibiotics for years! Aside from anything else the antibiotics will cause further decay.

    Personally I agree, however the treatment the HSE would offer is extraction. I think the research shows that children that have there teeth filled rather and extracted of just left decayed have no fewer incidents of pain/infection or antibiotics. Its a public health thing...the needs of the many, division of limited resources for the most good etc.....


  • #11
    Qualitymark
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    Rasmus wrote: »
    There is something they do to 'seal' teeth (my son had it done) but I think it is more for older kids. At 5, she is not looking to loose her molars until about 9 or 10 years old so filling them is probably a decent option. However, that seems a bit expensive, have you thought about shopping around?

    That business of sealing teeth - I don't see why it shouldn't be done (not that I'm a dentist!) for baby teeth. It's certainly a great idea for second teeth - got it done for a kid as one of the first in the 1970s, and it saved a world of decay and misery.

    The other thing that helped was the no-sweets-or-fizzy-drinks-except-on-Saturday rule, which I think is essential, especially if you've a family with not great teeth anyway. Family across the road from me had unfortunate tooth genetics and had all lost their whole mouthfuls of teeth by their 20s.


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