brwneyez9

A rct on a child is called a pulpotomy and where they are not as involved as rct like for a permant tooth. Anyways this would probably still be a hard prodcure on a child so young. My DD is the same age and there is no way she would be able to do this. In the area i live in though we have a hospital where they can put the child to sleep and then do the work. Baby teeth are important the hold the spot for the adult teeth. On older children if you have to take teeth out early they have appliance they can wear to hold the space. This involves having impressions done which you couldn't get on a 21 month old. They don't make trays small enough for that. It sounds like they need they at least need fillings in those teeth. Which could be hard for a 21 month old to sit still for. The new filling material the area has to be dry. You could check to see if you have a hospital that put them to sleep and will do this procedure. Even if the teeth are pulled you want him to be relaxed. That would be very tramtic for a little one like this. You don't want to leave his teeth in untreated. What happens is once the decay has reached the nerve they will become very painful for him. Plus the decay just doesn't stop once the baby tooth is fully decayed it will continue into the permant teeth and then you have a whole other issue. So since there is active decay going on then something need to be done about these teeth. Get the second opinion and see if you can save these teeth. It's just any dental work on a child this young would probably require them to go to sleep. I have never heard on doing pulpotomy's on a child this young, but its worth checking into.