Dear concerned Mother:
I have read all your post and I can tell you that your dentist seems to be
mostly right in everything, the child is too young now, and it's not
preferable to use total anesthesia for 2 or three temporary teeth, which
would implie more dangers than benefits, caries or cavities is a
demineralization process which has many factors, among them: bacteria, our
body defense system, a sustrate (sugar=sucrose), and.............TIME.
theese 3 factors don't make caries without time the fourth factor, so
there's the window of opportunity that your dentist is telling you, higiene,
higiene, higiene, lower down the sugar consumption, make the mouth of your
baby less acid, regain mineralization, this will make darker teeth (in the
hole I mean not ALL the tooth), but they will be able to STAY in PLACE, in
order to KEEP THE SPACE for the new teeth, untill replaced by the permanent
teeth at an older stage of life when the child CAN and MUST understand why
and how to clean his/her teeth.
Maybe teeth with STOPPED CARIES are better than no teeth at all, or than
teeth that produce abcesses and infections that might affect the germs of
the permanent teeth still in formation inside the bone, something we don't
want to happen.
So there is a substance that might colour your babies teeth black but It's
to be used ONLY by a dental professional by topication of the caries, this
substance produces a fast and hard REMINERALIZATION, but I don't know if
there is such substance in your country, or if it's authorized by the health
authorities, it is used in Argentina where I worked as a licensed dentist
for 8 years, but I didn't find it in Israel where I am located already 5
years, so please ask your dentist about topications with
Silver-Diamino-Fluoride, which I used to know as FAGAMIN, check it out It
MIGHT help you, now take in consideration that this is JUST an idea and
maybe some other dental professionals that do work in the states would be
able to tell us about the use of this substance in the USA which I sincerely
ignore, and share their oppinions with us.
Also I'd check with the baby's pediathrician about how long should you
breastfeed him and when.
I hope this is helpfull to you and your precious child, please get us some
feedback on the subject. I'm listening...

Cheers!

Gabe