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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why the hell would anyone wait?  It's not like cavities heal themselves.  I am afraid of the dentist too, but you know what?  I go anyway.  And that's what your daughter has to do.  At age 7 she is old enough to understand that. [/quote]

I'm not sure why there's so much hostility to a simple question, but you perhaps would wait on a baby tooth because it may fall out before the cavity becomes so severe that it muct be filled.  I've heard of some kids losing all of their baby teeth by age 9, so you aren't talking about a ton of time.  I know that there are no absolutes in dentistry and it seems like some pediatric dentists fill any little dark spot seen on an xray while others take more of a wait-and-see approach with baby teeth.  I had one dentist who told me that my 5 year old had 7 cavities and that several of them needed caps.  I went for a second opinion where I was told that only 2 needed to be filled and that none of them needed caps.  There really is a lot of variance in advice.[/quote]

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