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1 Replies Last post: Oct 11, 2009 12:45 PM by Natasha  
Mary   57 posts since
Apr 9, 2009
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Oct 8, 2009 12:09 PM

Chemo affecting teeth

So Madelyn has been on treatment a little over a year.  She is almost 6 and 3 of her molars just came in.  I took her to the dentist and she has a cavity in all 3 of them.  The dentist says the chemo weakens the enamel and aside from having her drink water with fluoride in it there isn't much we can do.  I am just really bummed about this and was wondering if anybody else has an similar experencies or advice about anything else we can do to try to strengthen the teeth.  Thanks.

 

Mary

Natasha   21 posts since
Oct 5, 2009
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1. Oct 11, 2009 12:45 PM in response to: Mary
Re: Chemo affecting teeth

Are you opposed to flouride? Because if not, your ped can give you an RX for it to supplement. I only say because the chemo hasn't affect our child's teeth (yet) -- he didn't have teeth when treatment started -- but our ped did say we should have him on a supplement. Other than that, I don't know what you could do.

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