Antibiotics and teeth?
Can taking certain Anitbiotics as a child impose adult teeth to become for always yellow?
how much does a chipped or broken tooth to get it fixed at the denist?
Answers: Hi..
Yes an antibiotic from the tetracycline array can cause discoloration of teeth.
Its more a dull shade,closer to greyness sometimes as capably as yellow depending on the amount of tetracycline the child be exposed to.
This can occur if you took a massive amount of tetracycline as a child before your developed teeth emerged, ie whilst they be forming.
It is the dentine material inside the tooth is discoloured, not the enamel and as such regular stain removing technique are useless.
It can also happen when a pregnant woman have to take tetracycline, the foetus ingests tetracycline also, plainly, and may have discoloured full-size teeth.In the case of a pregnant woman using tetracycline, discoloration occur in 50% of children born to such mothers.
Its sa difficult one to resolve as the horizontal of discoloration varies from tolerant to patient, and even from tooth to tooth surrounded by the same tolerant.
Bleaching works for some, the milder stained patients, whereas in patients more severly discoloured, veneer,crowns etc are the option.
Paul
Absolutely - and other discolourations too.
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