Children's Dental Care Filling cavities in baby teeth

Fremont Dental Arts of Pacific Beach

Some parents question, why place filings in baby teeth if the child is going to lose them anyway. There are two main reasons to maintain primary dentition. The first is to maintain space for the permanent teeth. If we pulled teeth it would be traumatic for the child. We would only do this as a last option. Plus if a tooth is removed a spacemaintainer has to be made to keep the space available for the permanent tooth to erupt into that position. The second reason to fill a cavity in a baby tooth is to clean out the decay before it reached the nerve. Many adults have experienced an abscess on their tooth, we wouldn’t want a child to have to experience that type of deep tooth filling or pulpotomy.