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Old 01-20-2005, 07:49 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Maybe if you continue expressing your concern, she might open up about it, or she could get annoyed and tell you to get lost. Maybe she's frustrated about it and doesn't know what can be done to correct it. Even a good dentist can miss finding the root of a problem.

Discoloration of teeth can also be caused by some drugs, especially antibiotics. Maybe she's taking something but doesn't want/can't yet talk about it.

Or it could be some undiagnosed gastro problem like it was for me. It was years of my dentist saying something was going on in my mouth causing higher than normal decay but he never put two and two together to explain it. Now more years later, my current dentist had been saying similar things; eventually, last year he called his associate in who happended to be experienced with this and she suggested it looked like an acid reflux problem; so even though I have no other acid reflux symptoms, I had tests done and they confirmed pretty serious acid reflux up high enough into my esophagus that it definitely causes decay.
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