My name is Donna Cooper. I was born in 1956.
My whole life has been effected by my horribly stained teeth. My primary teeth were grey with horizontal ribbons. My permanent teeth are yellow. I can remember my brothers putting kernels of corn on their teeth to "look like their sister". I was teased and degraded at school. Insults from peers and bullying began young. Everything from "why don't you brush your teeth" to kids telling me to not smile in their direction. My mom caught me dipping my toothbrush in Clorox at a young age because it was supposed to whiten things, I was told that my baby teeth were discolored because my Mom took tetracycline. But my permanent teeth are from tetracycline I had as a young child

I'm now 63. I am so self-conscious. I have sometimes thought of just having all my teeth pulled and getting dentures. I cannot even imagine what it would feel like looking at white teeth in the mirror. I did nothing to deserve this. It was the medicine you made that has caused this lifelong issue. I want funding to fix my teeth. Please do the right thing for all of us who suffer. I've tried to upload a picture but even though it is the right file format, it is not uploading. I can send upon request.

Was given tetracycline as a child and have struggled with color of teeth since then do t want to smile

My Mom took this medication obviously thinking this was the best thing for her and would not harm her child. As soon as my permanent teeth came in they looked like they had melted in in my gums. I have had to have 3 teeth pulled and was quoted $30,000 to make My teeth normal & without pain. Everyone I know has gorgeous teeth now with the new teeth whitening & all I want is normal teeth & no more pain. Pfizer needs to step up & have compassion for those of us need help. I need help soon.
Pattie Curlee
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My Mom took this medication in 1963 obviously thinking this was the best thing for for her and never thinking that it would harm her child. As soon as my permanent teeth came in they looked like they had melted in my mouth. I have never had normal looking teeth. Everyone I know has gorgeous teeth now with the news whitening techniques. I just want normal teeth that are not painful. I have had 3 teeth pulled & have been quoted $30,000 to make everything normal & no pain. I need help quickly. They need to have compassion & step up.

Basicly it ruined my life.
I was made fun of all of my life.
Lowered my self esteem.
I lost boyfriends, friend and even Jobs due to the fact my teeth were clean , but looked dirty and stained because of this horrible drug that was suppose to be safe!
I spent endless amounts of money on dentists and dental products that never worked.
I cried and felt ugly and dirty because of the stains . It has caused so much mental anguish and misery for me that words can not express!
Gay Nell Bell

Everyone here has the same issue of dark tetracycline stained teeth and the horror they endure every moment of their lives. I too have those same discolored teeth and my life? Well, isn't so great. From a child through puberty explaining to friends and their parents during birthday parties or sleep overs etc as to why my teeth were stained. As a young adult I found getting jobs became more and more difficult. Then the dating scene. WOW what can I say. When approached by a potential date and I smile ends it all before the date starts. Or sitting in a doctor's office and smile at a child and they become frightened and their words "MONSTER!" as they grasp at the parent. Explaining to adults when first becoming friends now what is wrong with my teeth simply seeing the awkwardness of their embarrassment at wanting to ask. So let's get back to why people are so superficial, judgmental, and assumptions based on this topic. Now present day with the war on drugs there is no way to put it lightly, BECAUSE OF MY TEETH I CAN"T GET THE JOBS I AM EDUCATED FOR, I CAN'T EVEN GET A DATE................WHY??????????? BECAUSE NOW PEOPLE'S AUTOMATIC REACTIONS AND THOUGHTS ARE............. ...............DRUG ADDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRUG ADDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRUG ADDICT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cry everyday and I am now almost 40. Watching my mother wish with all her heart that this never happened to me and watching me get humiliated. To the point a new friend of hers I was meeting for the first time, looks at me and says wow you are as beautiful as your mother so of course I smile and his next comment sent me to the TETRA ABYSS. "You know they have dentists for that." My mother stood in shock but I was sick of this same judgmental problem. I calmly looked at him and said, "You are right. Would you like to pay the $10,000 for dental work? You know since my teeth are actually perfectly healthy and I keep good oral hygiene I just need that work to suffice yours and others inflated ideals of beauty." I am tired of suffering at the crude remarks behind my back and to my face!!!!!!
WE DESERVE OUR LIVES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE DESERVE OUR LIVES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE DESERVE OUR LIVES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE DESERVE OUR LIVES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This barely scratches the surface as to what I've been through.

Your product fkd my teeth. Y'all owe me 22,000 $

I would like to know if anyone is doing anything about the side effect of stained and brittle teeth.

I took tetracycline for ear aches in the 60's!!!

I was given tetracycline as an infant in the early 1960s. I did not have permanent teeth at that time. When my permanent teeth did come in, they came in dark gray. I never smiled, unless it was like a little Mona Lisa smile. I was teased and bullied throughout school, which led to me developing a terrible inferiority complex. When I became a teen, my parents spent tons of money for me to get veneers. Unfortunately, that seemed to cause more problems. I had most of my top front teeth crowned, with great expense. Now these are breaking and having issues. Plus, my teeth are very weak. They crumble, break, split, and just about everything else. Furthermore, most are still dark. I have also developed an autoimmune disease, which has caused many other illnesses. I'm the one in my family who seems to get all of the illnesses. I'm also the only one who took the tetracycline. I believe more needs to investigated. I'm not one who believes in frivolous lawsuits, but what happened to me, affected every aspect of my life, not only being ridiculed, but in lost opportunities, and many, many expensive dental procedures and pain, which are continuing today.

I was born in 1970 and was prescribed tetracycline for an infection and have the gray teeth to prove it. I was teased endlessly growing up about my dirty teeth and asked, "why don't I brush my teeth?" The dental unit in health class always made me especially anxious as someone would point out my "gray teeth". Over the years, I have spent thousands of dollars trying to conceal my gray teeth---bonding, veneers and crowns. None of which are permanent---all of which are ridiculously expensive. Dental insurance doesn't help with this problem either. Can nothing be done? The damage is outside and inside. If Pfizer won't help---can they lobby for dental insurance to offer some assistance in treating us?

I was given tetracycline as a baby, ive had teeth stains, weak teeth, ugly grey/yellow staining, I hate to say it but thanks to pfitzer I have never been able to say im proud of my smile, all my photos I have to make sure I dont show my teet,h, I was teased at school every day, as an adult when people see the teeth, you can tell its not a pleasant meeting, I didn't have very many friends because of the ugly teeth, Pfizer should pay for emotional distress etc, Please someone help us, you don't know what its like not to be able to smile proudly, or laugh without covering my mouth so people wont see,

My name is Dana M. Scruggs.

I was born on 9/27/1958.

As a child, my brothers, sisters, and I were given tetracycline. Of course, it stained our teeth with a gross yellow/brown. This was in the early 1960's.

In 1952, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals came out with Tetracycline (a broad scan antibiotic). They knew (from animal testing that Tetracycline would permanently stain teeth a dark yellowish-brown or grey. Pfizer put Tetracycline on the market with no warning about this horrific side effect of the medication.

Both my "baby teeth" and my permanent teeth were stained this horrific yellowish-brown staining of my teeth.

Pfizer did not put a warning label regarding this side effect of Tetracycline until 1971! Hence, many children (such as myself) have had to go through their formative years with dark yellowish-brown or grey teeth!

Pfizer said they were "sorry" but provided zero compensation to people afflicted with the side effects of taking tetracycline during pregnancy/childhood.

This ruined my life! I seldom ever dated or went out. I was a social recluse because I did not want my peers to to make fun of my teeth (which they did anyway).

To this day, I am single and do not date. I have been alone my entire life because Pfizer stole my smile! Have you any idea just how dehumanizing these tetracycline stains have been on the children who had to live with them?

All throughout my childhood, I was teased and bullied by other children. They would say, "Why don't you brush your teeth!?" They would refer to me as "yellow teeth".

Why won't Pfizer do the right thing and provide compensation to the thousands of people like me whose lives were ruined by tetracycline stains on their teeth!?

Pfizer? DO THE RIGHT THING AND HELP FIX OUR TEETH!!!!


Sincerely,


Dana M. Scruggs
129 Avian Drive, #A
Vallejo, CA 94591
[email protected]
Phone: 707-310-1880

I was born in 1967. The Tetracycline my mother was prescribed when she was pregnant with me permanently discolored my adult teeth. I have had to have my teeth done several times. I can only fix my top teeth because of my bite, so the bottom teeth always look bad. Professional whitening did lighten them a little, but not much. Starting when I was 15, the top teeth have been done several times with both composite veneers, which only last about 10 years, and porcelain veneers, which, in my case, cracked and broke. I even chewed up and swallowed one of them while on a date! Because the composite veneers wear down around the edges, the tooth underneath is subjected to more bacteria. I've now had to have two of my teeth partially capped. Now I am looking at having my composite veneers redone again, and I can't afford to pay anymore! It took me years to pay off the last round of veneers. Pfizer needs to cover these costs. Why aren't they required to pay for the damages they caused?