Help!
Just found out that I am pregnant, it is still early days. I have an appointment at the Denist because I need a filling. I have told him that I am expecting. Do you think it is safe to have a injection and filling done???
2006-11-16 04:06:04 · 22 answers · asked by deana1307 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
**********I was a Dental Assistant for several years......so I guess I am semiqualified to answer this question.*********************
If you are in your firs trimester NO DRUGS should be taken and NO X-RAYS. This includes dental injections. You should have to have a relesae from your OB after the first trimester. It is usually not a problem then, but a dentist should want to have that in your file, just in case anything happens during or after your pregnancy.
The filling itself won't hurt the baby, but the drugs could if you are in the first trimester. I would not reccomend having the filling yet unless you are in serious pain!
Hope that helps.
2006-11-16 06:13:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is safe to have injections at the dentist when pregnant. After I had my first daughter (now 2) I have had to have 2 fillings, I suffered a bad reaction when I had one of the injections. Now I'm pregnant with my 2nd daughter, I'm 6 months and the dentist did a filling without an injection, it was uncomfortable but was not painful. The dentist said that if I had gone through giving birth then I could choose not to have an injection. It was fine.
Good luck xx
2006-11-16 06:40:13 · answer #2 · answered by SARAH S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My doctor AND my dentist said no dental work (besides a cleaning with no flouride treatment) was okay. I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth out just days after getting pregnant, and I am told I do have some risks because of the medications used and the ones I took. I also had an appt scheduled for a filling and one for an inplant on my lower jaw, and everything was canceled. I guess it's up to your doctor, but that's what my doc and dentist told me. I am just praying I didn't already cause damage from the procedure and not knowing I was pregnant! Good Luck!
2006-11-16 04:12:06 · answer #3 · answered by angie_laffin927 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes the injection is fine.If u are worried about the filling then ask your dentist to put the white stuff in.Instead of the silver mercury.I'm not sure what the white filling is called but it does work just as well.Without the mercury in it.Good luck with your baby.
2006-11-16 04:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by sweet_thing_kay04 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's completely safe to get a filling but the medication injection is another story. It isn't safe to take hardly any meds when you are pregnant. If you want to get the filling still, tough out the pain without an injection, I did.
2006-11-16 04:11:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There really is no definant answer on this. Some drs. believe it to be safe, others do not. Earlier this month there was an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that dental work in the second and third trimesters is relatively safe--but the issue of first trimester dental work wasn't addressed. If it were me, I would wait just to be safe.
2006-11-16 04:11:22 · answer #6 · answered by jilldaniel_wv 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not safe if you are having a mercury filling as mercury can seriously harm your baby's nervous system (this is the reason we are told not to eat lots of tuna during pregnancy). Many countries have made amalgum fillings for pregnant women illegal because of the risks.
2006-11-16 04:10:53 · answer #7 · answered by Ricecakes 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i had a tooth pulled suited on the time that i found out that i grew to become into pregnant...the numbing meds are ok you in simple terms can't take any form of soreness killers...confirm you tell your dentist which you're pregnant in the previous...yet its considered needed to work out a dentist jointly as your pregnant
2016-10-22 04:57:41 · answer #8 · answered by connely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I have braces and I could not get anything else done with them because the ortho found a cavity. I had to go to my dentist to get it filled. It is very good to keep your teeth up while preg.
2006-11-16 04:15:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sine you told him, it shouldn't be a problem. Mercury fillings are no longer used (because of its harmful properties) and some dentists now use a sandblasting techniques instead of drilling which doesn't require anesthesia.
2006-11-16 04:16:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋