black marks on infants teeth

[kay3000]

my three yr old girl has black marks on the majority of her teeth. it started out as a small mark on her front tooth and now its spread, its on the front and back of her teeth around the baselines. i took her to the dentist but he suggested she needed some time to build a relationship before she would allow him to check her mouth, he also assured me it would not carry over into her permanent teeth and told me it was probably acids from juices etc. he said it looked like it could be scraped off but i have tried and it doesn't move. what could be the possible causes and what could be a worst case scenario? the teeth are not painful.

[KellyErica]

I had this issue when I was younger, as did my brother. We both were taken to see specialists who had never seen the problem before.
They never did find a cause. However, my father has the black marks on only one of his teeth. My brother and I had them on the majority of ours.
For myself, I had them cleaned off by the dentist many times, and one particular time they went completely and I've never got them back. I figure this is because the dentist who cleaned them that particular time managed to get every speck.
My brother still gets these marks on the back of his teeth, He's now 21 and has them cleaned regularly.
I would recomend getting your daughter to the dentist asap to get them cleaned off thoroughly before the marks get chance to spread.
Hope that helps.
Kel

[kay3000]

tannx chris but she never went to bed with a bottle or sippy cup. i just want to be extra careful i don't want her paying later for something that could have easily been dealt with earlier. is your 4 yr old bonding well with the 5mth old

[chris198028]

Is she still on a bottle or going to bed with a sippy cup? Sounds like baby bottle tooth decay to me.  The best thing is to let the dentist handle it and if he's not worried, I wouldn't be either.  If it doesn't seem painful to her and she's still able to eat and drink, I think she will be ok.  Good luck and let us know what the dentist says.  I have a 4 year old and a 5 month old, so anything that could possibly happen to children, I'm very interested in learning about.