Baby Dental Care, Five minor cavities on baby teeth
Should I have them filled?
So I took my eight year old son for his yearly dental check up. The dentist use a probe to check for cavities and tooth decay and found five cavities on his baby teeth. He said right now the cavities are all really small but they should be filled. With my dental insurance plan we get from my husband job each filling will cost us $45.00 so that would be a total of $225.00 money we really can not afford at this time.
I am thinking that these are baby teeth. He should be loosing them with in the next few years. Since they are so small can we wait? I am worried that if we do nothing they may get bigger but how fast can a cavity grow to were it is a larger issue then just a filling? Can I wait since this is a money issue or is it better to suck it up and pay for the fillings now?
