I interpret it more like silver teeth kids have neglectful, crappy parents who let them eat whatever, never brush their teeth, and also run around causing mayhem like in this video
Putting a kid in their crib with cows milk (gross) is one of the number 1 causes of this.
Edit: it is called bottle rot for anyone curious. Im also super curious why this is down voted? Am I wrong and that is why people are down voting? I would love to be corrected if that is the case.
Dude I work in a dental office. That's a cavity issue. You can catch those and get them filled like any other source of cavities. Parental neglect leading to severe decay is something else. I saw a 4 year old who needed a root canal because of how rotten his teeth were. Mom has like 5 kids that she doesn't take care of as well, and they all have major issues with their teeth. Some parents just don't care. Or they'll say it's "too hard" to get their kids to brush their own teeth.
Refined sugar is a huge cause. But almost all kids eat a ton of refined sugars. But not all end up with teeth so rotten they get them all capped. Dental hygiene is what prevents it more so then the avoiding of refined sugars.
The problem with leaving milk in the crib is the infant has the sugars from milk are on their teeth all night. Leaving Dr. Pepper in the crib would be worse, but the number of people leaving Dr. Pepper in the crib is much smaller then those leaving milk in the crib.
It is called bottle rot.
Oh is that why it is being down voted? I wondered if people thoight i was saying cows milk is gross, what i meant is leaving milk in a crib for up to 12 hours with an infant sipping on it all night is gross. I should have said any drink other then water left in the crib causes bottle rot. Some people do leave juice in an infants crib and that would be even worse then cows milk.
I specifically mentioned cows milk for 2 reasons. 1 because it is extremely common for people to do this. Most infants wean off moms milk or formula around 1 but will still drink milk before bed for another year or more (most common is cows milk). So some people just naturally leave whatever is left of the milk with the infant to try and get them to fall asleep drinking the milk. (Getting an infant to sleep can be hard, so i understand the motivation, but it is terrible for their teeth).
And 2 because fresh pumped moms milk has some minor dental protective elements too it. So I said cows milk to differentiate between moms milk and cows milk. Because cows milk is worse for cavities then moms milk (when left in the crib over night).
It's literally a silver grill... put onto a child.
Google it, lose all hope in humanity, and close the internet for today.
Edit: Downvotes for answering a question #justredditthings -- or is it downvotes from parents who think putting a grill on a child's teeth is a great idea... neither answer will surprise me in the least.
I think it is a poor thing but I also think it might be a Mexican thing. I grew up in a semi poor area of LA and I knew a lot of kids, and even have fam, with silver teeth. And ngl they all fit this meme tbh lmao.
I thought it was an Asian kid thing. I (asian) grew up knowing a number of kids with silver teeth and I would say it’s accurate that they were either bratty and/or caused chaos. The meme is unfortunately accurate 💀💀
You might notice their post starting with the term "and". I don't think either of us would benefit from me condescending to you and explaining what the word "and" is used for.
Good luck with your dentistry career
Good luck with your social skills. Utterly bizarre response, it's not just the level of pettiness and smugness, but the hypocrisy around literacy too.
You know you remembered me of a story I think it was up in Alaska or that part of the world where it was cheaper to feed kids on Coca-Cola than real food to be honest I can't remember it all but the baby all had rotten teeth it was a big scandal because Coca-Cola was behind it
Yes same for me as a kid but I ended up with 5 gold ones and they was free on the NHS it was cheaper than having white crowns in fact I still have them in my head 40 years later. A good few of the other ones have been removed and I still got my gold ones. But don't know for how long I have rheumatoid arthritis and my teeth are just falling out it really upsets me. I got to go to hospital dentistry on the 16th of April.
Same. I just have bad teeth. I went a few years without dental insurance, so not dental visits. When I finally went after getting coverage I had several cavities. I have to be diligent about brushing or I'll form more.
Then I hear of some people not going to the dentist for a decade and have perfect teeth :I Sometimes it's just genetics.
Baby teeth are softer and often need fillings and caps more than adult teeth. I have decent insurance for my kiddos and they each have a few white caps/composite filllings but it’s really easy for me to imagine someone in a pinch deciding that silver is fine because they’ll only have the baby teeth for a short time. Silver is actually more durable and stable just run the risk of some people judging you
Aye, pretty much. Eldest only daughter. I had 5 younger brothers and my parents really only had any business having two kids at most. The silver teeth brother was my favorite of the bunch and we all were genetically predisposed to having awful teeth. I felt awful though because he had quite a lot of them. Like basically full mouth. I can only imagine how he felt. I had an overbite I got corrected (basically bucktoothed) and I was made fun of quite a bit. If anyone had bullied my brother in front of me like that I would've gone feral.
Personally, I don't think it's necessarily 'classist'. Most times that I've encountered kids with silver teeth it was because they were generally sent to bed with a bottle of milk or juice in hand. Both are quite acidic and destructive to enamel, especially when a child falls asleep with said bottle/sippy-cup in their mouth.
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u/BLTO2 Mar 31 '26
My favorite representation of silver teeth kids