dental visit at school gone wrong?

[Jennifer]

MrsSeah:

I dislike school dentist. I feel they are in-experience and not skillful!!!!

I was lucky. During my pri sch days, all my visits to the sch dental clinic were pleasant.

For my children, I only sent them to the sch dental nurse for simple extraction of very loose teeth.

For complication cases like forced extraction due to permanent teeth growing behind the unshaky milk teeth, I sent them to a dental surgeon.

So far, no fillings jobs required for my children.

[concern2]

Oh man, good thing DS himself and I pulled out most of his lose teeth!

[phtthp]

your son pull out the teeth himself ?


he is very brave!
but must be painful to pull out the loose teeth himself. :yikes:

[Karen4791]

I must now stop my children from going to the school dentist to be on the safe side : )

[concern2]

phtthp:

your son pull out the teeth himself ?


he is very brave!
but must be painful to pull out the loose teeth himself. :yikes:

Haha! Both of us are quite skilled at it now! We will normally wait till the tooth is really shaky, usually the permanent tooth would have sprouted at this stage. I'll put ice over the gum near the shaky tooth to reduce the blood flow, stand by tissue, before pulling it out. Sometimes he will chicken out when it refuse to come off, and after a few more attempts, we'll try again the next day. Once I couldn't get a grip, and before I could tell him we do it the following day, he had already pulled it out himself! It isn't painful, and if it is just an empty cavity, there is no blood.

It is amazing how nature works. The lower teeth will erupt from behind the milk teeth, and the tongue will eventually push the new teeth out into place, while the upper teeth will erupt from the front, and the upper lips will push the new teeth down into place when the milk teeth have been extracted. So to prevent having 'rabbit teeth', the milk teeth should be pulled out on time for the new ones, and make sure the child closes his mouth most of the time so the new teeth can be 'pushed' into place. Some kids feel very uncomfortable with the new teeth in front esp, and leave the mouth open, giving a chance for 'rabbit teeth'. (Note: this is from my observation as a mother, and is not backed up by dental reports, and I am only referring to incisors, not molars!)

[zadrian]

What kind of parents is this STOMPer Myra ?


Her kid was suffering from some form of tooth decay or mouth/gum infection so bad that the kid needed to have his tooth extracted and she did not even know about it !

Looking at the hole, it would have been the 1st molar or a fang which would have bothered the kid whenever he ate. I cannot imagine myself with a toothache.

Again, case of rich dad vs poor dad. If school have no dental facilities, then parents complain. If school dental services sends kids for private dental clinics, parents also complains.

If the this STOMPer Myra really bothers or could have afforded (time and or money), she would have wrote in to the school to have her kid assigned to a private dentist, or better still a private teacher, a private tutor or even to a private school. Maybe even a private country with a private army.

[Lynn2010]

Now i can confirm that my decision all these years is correct. That is, i dont let the school dentist to touch my kids’ teeth.


My kids brought back some kind of "consent form" to perform some kind of dental checks, etc. I usually put in the form that - my kids do not require dental care from the school and i will bring them to private dentists.

Not sure if other KSP parents received such "consent form"

[MrsSeah]

Lynn2010:

Now i can confirm that my decision all these years is correct. That is, i dont let the school dentist to touch my kids' teeth.


My kids brought back some kind of \"consent form\" to perform some kind of dental checks, etc. I usually put in the form that - my kids do not require dental care from the school and i will bring them to private dentists.

Not sure if other KSP parents received such \"consent form\"

Yes she bring back the consent form.

When my girl went in to P1, my manager has \"warned\" me not to let my girl does her dental treatment in school. She told me her friend who is a Dentist told her so. Hence, she never let her kids do any dental treatment in school.

I does not believe her. :slapshead: That time I feel, Singapore, THOUSANDS of student using school dental, how bad can they be. I just brush it off. :stupid: Hence when my girl brought back the form for me to sign, I just sign on it.

I am TOTALLY wrong. I let my girl suffered for 1 month of pain. I regretted that I didn't bring my girl to private dentist the very 1st time when the school dentist unable to fix her tooth.

Now, I still let her go to the school dentist for normal cleaning. But for other problem, I prefer to bring her to a private dentist to fix it.

[iRabbit]

I would like to say that not every sch dentist is so bad. My son just had 3 fillings done at his sch’s dental clinic yesterday and he had a satisfactory experience.

[Trina]

I had very bad experiences with school dentist/nurses during my schooldays and swear that I won't let my children suffer the same fate. My DD only goes to school dentist for cleaning and polishing but I am going to stop that too. Reason being that 1 week after her visit to school dentist, we visited a private dentist to have a tooth extracted and the dentist commented that her teeth were so dirty, and it's apparent that the school dentist didn't do a good job.


It doesn't help that I have also heard horror stories from friends. In one instance, the school nurse extracted the wrong tooth!!!! :yikes: