My friend's 6 year old son went for a visit to the dentist at a Sukhumvit hospital, as part his school's health programme recently and the dentist advised that his son needed to have 8 fillings done. This was quite surprising as his regular dentist had recently claimed he had a healthy set of choppers. Just to make 100% sure, he took the boy back to his regular dentist and they could not see any evidence of 1 decayed tooth, let alone 8!!!

Having lived in Thailand for 15 years I am well aware of dentists here having a reputation for padding the bill by claiming that you may have 1 or 2 extra holes, whether they drill/fill them or not, but drilling 8 holes into a healthy 6 year old's teeth is mighty unethical, bordering on criminal.

At 6 year , aren't they still losing the baby teeth? Were x rays taken? Does sound a bit dodgy.

Well from them, get an x-ray and you can see for yourself if there is any holes in the teeth. Sounds really dodgy to me! Don't let them even touch his teeth yet because drilling for no reason into healthy teeth will cause lots of problems!

No x-rays, just a physical inspection. A sad case of trying to make money by drilling into healthy teeth.

Physical inspection does not show early signs of decay..... and like someone pointed out... is the childs baby teeth still falling out?

Not falling out yet.