I was born in 1958. I had experienced very bad ear aches so my pediatrician decided to put me on Tetricyclin for 2 years straight, PRIOR TO MY SECOND TEETH GROWING IN. There was NO warning then of the terrible side effects of the brown second and permanent teeth users of this medicine would experience for a lifetime. I was weary to ever smile and the discoloration of my teeth caused me to feel very insecure about my looks and have a very low self-esteem. Children on the playground can be quite brutal and I was always being made fun of. I am personally going to find the BEST Medical Malpractice attorney and fight Pfizer for reimbursement of my second set of Veneers / Crowns now needed AND for the pain and suffering I experienced up until my 20's. How DARE PFIZER NOT WANT TO MAKE RIGHT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE KNOWINGLY TO SO MANY PEOPLE'S LIVES !!!!!! I DON'T TAKE ON SOMETHING WITHOUT WINNING AND I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO WIN, AND THE WILL TO DO SO !.

Darice Kores

Born in 64 given tetracycline before my baby teeth came out my mother said they were discolored too. the cost to fix this problem is unreasonably high. i don't want millions in pain and suffering from what from wht i went though in school. just help in fixing my teeth.

I was born in 1960. If I sneezed my mother took me to the Doctor who always prescribed Sumycin/Tetracycline. Still today I don't smile much because of my teeth color. While in school I was often made fun of due to the color of my teeth. I really don't think Pfizer cares what they do to people as long as they make billions.

Same problem as everyone else. Born in 1960 and given Tetracycline. Teeth dis colored and at 55 are breaking apart right in my mouth! We need help. We need justice. Isn't there a lawyer out there who wants to file a class action suit and get us the help we deserve?

I'm a 51 yrs old female. My teeth are stained from tetracycline. I never smiled as a kid. Kids would pick on me about my teeth. Always was embarrassed. Still today I hate my teeth. It cost to much to get them fixed. Even today people ask me why don't I smile. Please help

I had meningitis when I was 2, I was given tons of tetracycline. I have suffered for 48 years now with gray, deteriorating teeth. I never smiled as a kid, people would comment on how I never brushed my teeth. A lot of my teeth have since deteriorated. I have spent so much money for route canals and crowns to only end up losing the whole tooth in the long run. I would love to know what it was like to chew a piece of food without wondering if I was going to choke because I do not have enough teeth. Its such a shame that this has happened to so many of us. I always had great oral hygiene but my "bad" teeth held me down. I would like to see some sort of assistance with helping us pay for dental repair. If you need to contact me I am at [email protected].
Thanks for initiating this.

I was born in 1964. I have had issues with my tetracycline stained teeth all my life. I recently had some of them with caps on them and has made a world of difference in my smile. Trouble is that they all should be capped. My confidence level has increased since some othem have been capped. I think that Pfizer should buck up and pay for us to get veneers on our teeth since they capitalized on making tons of money for those of us who had tetracycline before the age of 12. They should set up a fund and contract with some dental group to provide this service for those of us affected by this antibiotic.

I was born in 1956 and was fed tetracycline before age 5. My permanent teeth came in yellow, gray, and splotchy white. I am now 59 and have suffered with these unsightly teeth all of my life. All through grade school and high school I was ashamed of my teeth as I actually assumed it was due to poor brushing habits as a 3 year old! I had no idea that my assumption made no sense. Kids blame themselves if adults don't speak up. Nobody told me until I was age 24 that it was tetracycline. So, you will not find any childhood or teenage pictures of me where I am showing my teeth. All pictures of me have closed-mouth smiles. Every single day of my youth had shame because every day I was talking to people and was conscious of them looking at my mouth when I spoke. Classmates asking, "What's wrong with your teeth?". They now call it low self-esteem but all I know is that it sucked to live with shame every day and, on top of it, find out later that it was some medicine that was responsible because of professional ignorance or worse. I will never know how my life would have been different if I had the whiter teeth that I should have had. Well, I know I would have had many pictures of me smiling with teeth, and less time spent dodging the cameras and covering my mouth.

I was born in 1964 and was given Tetracycline when I was an infant. I have suffered over 40 years with disgusting, stained teeth and lost my self esteem, was bullied, laughed at and I covered my mouth with each smile. This staining to my teeth has been a major source of embarrassment my entire life. Just to repeat what others have said, I was the target of hurtful and often soul destroying remarks from children and adults and I prayed and hoped as a young child that when I lost my little yellow baby teeth that my adult teeth would be white and beautiful, but that didn't happen. I have exhausted every avenue financially possible to fix this over the past 45 years to no avail. Everything I did was a temporary fix and I am still suffering with no where to turn. Someone has to hold this company responsibility for the pain and suffering that so many of us had to endure all these years.

I was born in 1962 and was given Tetracycline as a baby. I suffered bullying all through primary and secondary school due to the discoloration of my teeth. I paid to have caps which are now deteriorating after 20+ years. I can't afford to have them re-done and to be honest have a phobia of dentists now and would have a panic attack. I also have a congenital heart defect but don't know if the drug had anything to do with this. I feel I have suffered enough due to this drug and am angry that I have to put up with teeth like this and nothing but bad childhood memories because of them.

Born in 1958, when my teeth came in they were totally grey and as an adult they are yellow/grey and totally crumbling requiring me to have all teeth replaced. Unfortunately I do not have the funding to have the replaced. Also my additional birth defects are scoliosis, left kidney never developed correctly, had kinked ureter all inutero where the other kidney needed to grow larger than normal to compensate.1 tear ago I had to have it removed due to extreme pain and no functionality. I was also born with mitro valve prolapse, heart murmur, double sized arteries, and multiple nerves in teeth. Also male formation in bone structure in right foot all due to birth defects. I also have a corkscrew configuration of an artery in my brain when they did a MRI after having a seizure. My life has been challenging at best. I am fifty seven now, where every day becomes a challenge to me. Since my very early childhood I knew there where things not quite right with me. I also has ADD and OCD which was not known about at that time. I had to struggle and work twice as hard as all the other children, and although I was a good student with my extra effort. Now that I'm aging every time I go to the Doctor I only find more and more birth defects and seen to have no legal recourse. Each day for me is more and more difficult for me to bear. Now with sciatica, problems w/left hip, planter faciatis ans Achilles tendinitis only compounds the birth defects due to tetracycline. Not to mention my problems with my heart from birth. Please contact me so that I may have some possibility of compensating for some of this injustice due to large company greed at the cost of the unborn. thank you. Patricia O'Day 1-815-651-1289 God Bless You

Pfizer created a product that it knowingly had damaging side affects yet it did nothing about it. Any competent medical injury attorney should be able to quickly determine that Pfizer is responsible to the manygood people it hurt. Why is nothing being done by anyone ? i found a link to a personal injury attorney who claims it helps people , the victims, the little guy. They claim to take on big business . Well i filled out the free case evaluation and they rejected it in less than 5 minutes. What is going on here ? maybe others will have better luck than i did , you can fill out the case evaluation at forthepeople.com . please let me know how it goes for you ? We can't let Pfizer get away with ruining so many lives by their blatant negligence.

Sames complaint as everyone else, teeth are starting to deteriorate, will we ever get justice? Born in 63

Same issue w/my teeth, will we ever get justice? Born in 63, my teeth are now beginning to fall apart.

Is there anything we can do to get reimbursed for the thousands of dollars it costs to have our teeth fixed?
I am very frustrated as it is going to cost up to 20 thousand dollars to get veneers, I had veneers put on over 20 years ago and they now need to be replaced and I do not have that type of money.

Drug companies make billions of dollars a year, and to think they are so greedy as to not make amends to the people they hurt.
Not sure how they can live with themselves.

If there is anyone who can help us, or anyone looking to get a class action lawsuit going, please let me know by emailing me at [email protected].

I would TRULY love to be able to smile again....

Romania's dental treatment costs a lot less than current costs in UK and Ireland - 50% or even less. Many people book their holiday/vacation there - usually for at least a week -but it might be a nice way to see the country? and have their treatments carried out by professionals there. It might be worth researching. checking quality/patient rights.prices etc - but I do know people who have gone there and also to other European cities - Lithuania, Poland - and had treatment which they are more than happy with. Might be a realistic and more affordable plan of action? Could pay for a holiday too with what a UK or Irish dentist would have charged.

I'm just another person who has suffered and exhibited the same characteristic symptoms mentioned below and had a life of undeserved and unsolicited embarrassment due to Pfizer's early 1960's drug. I don't know if this thread is going anywhere legally or whether it just provides a forum for airing grievances? Maybe even if that is all it does, it is therapeutic. But I do hope there is some avenue available to bring the manufacturer to account. Restitution / damages are needed even to finance a 50 years too late cosmetic repair. Maybe the company has been and is just waiting for all the victims to die off?

I too was given tetracycline as a small child in 1966. I have experienced the worst kind of embarrassment and humiliations throughout my entire life. Being made fun of, bullied, laughed at, passed up on job offers, never able to smile. But, the worst was last year when my beautiful daughter married the love of her life, and of course pictures were awful. I was the only one not able to laugh and smile and celebrate the most amazing day of her life. I feel cheated out of a lifetime of happiness and nothing can replace that, except for making these a-holes pay for what they have done to so many beautiful people. For the depression, sadness, crying, hurt, and the money we have spent to no avail. My teeth are horrible, and have begun to literally falling apart in my mouth despite brushing, flossing, dental visits, tooth whitening, etc. Someone said to me last year, you know you are a really beautiful woman, but have you tried to whiten your teeth. I cried forever. Someone out there needs to help!!!!

Hello, I am a 55 year old male. I was surprised to see so many stories, similar to mine.
I too, had veneers put on some 25 years ago. Unfortunately, they have deteriorated, as
has, the underlying structure. It is, the deterioration of the structure, that most concerns me.
Quite a few people have mentioned it, beyond the base argument, being discoloration.

My case, is extreme. In that, I took tetracycline every day, for the longest periods. From the age of 4 to 6,
I could be off. Point being, My teeth look like hell and are in foundational trouble. I've always brushed, flossed
and visited the dentist, regularly. In my opinion, it's more than discoloration to me, it's like something is and
has been, eating away at my teeth.

So beyond, the now well understood, discoloring effects of the drug. Who else feels, it's erosional, as well.

Ty.

I am 47 years old female and have what I call Tetracycline teeth, yes given as a child... the embarrassment and low self esteem has done a number on my life.. the picking on as a child up to day when my child ask's me " why I have gray teeth" . I can not afford the cost to even getting them slightly white... veneers are out do to the cost... I do not understand why this company will not just face up and realize that they have ruined lots of peoples life!
why no one has done anything for us by now in incredible and inhuman!!!

I was given Tetracycline back in the 1960 for various reasons. When my adult teeth stated coming in there were very Yellow and has only gotten worse over the years. Several dentist have told me that it is due to this medication. Not only did it discolor my teeth but it left them very then (transparent). Now in my late 50's my dental issues are just grown worse, teeth are breaking, enamel has broke off and on and on. Dentist said there was no since in trying to bleach them because they will never be white and the bleaching could cause other or even worse issues. I feel like Pfizer should pay for this because they are responsible for what it has caused.

I am 51 years old, and was given tetracycline as a child and had to endure being made fun of as a kid. I was called race track because of the line going across my teeth, and as an adult even after having paid for professional whitening, I have kids especially, ask me why are your teeth brown? I really wish the maker of this product would take accountability for this situation. I have straight teeth, and I have often wondered what it would have been like to have had beautiful teeth, because I believe they would have been beautiful if not for this medication. I want veneers, but they are to expensive for me. :(..

I was given this antibiotic for pneumonia when I was young (born in 1964) , I think I was around five years old , maybe younger , I am not 51 and have had to live with I'll fitting veneers all my life, the trouble is they are now all very old and need replacing due to cracks and drilling for root canal problems, I have had to put up with beening call black teeth to dick emery with alot more names inbetween all my life , this has destroyed my confidence and I still struggle to this day to consider smiling for a photo, can you imagine living all your life without smiling, well tetra kids have had too, my dentist told me that to sort out my teeth correctly it would cost around £10000 , is there any fund or compensation availabe

I too have lived with horribly stained grey teeth all my life because of this drug. My sister and brother suffered the same fate. I am now 50 and to this day, I still rarely smile because of being so self conscious about it. Most people mistakingly think I am not a very friendly or outgoing person because of it. While I am sure I should be able receive compensation for all the torment and ridicule this has caused me over the years, All I want is to have the smile God intended me to have for a least a brief period of my life before it was wrongfully taken away from me. Is that too much to ask Pfizer??

i am 47 and was given the drug as a small child i have suffered the embaressment of having tetra teeth all my life .. i recently emailed pfizer and i was shocked to get a reply via email asking me to fill in a questionare . i gave my doctors adress and pfizer contacted my docs to look in to my case . my doc wouldnt give any info without my consent so i got a letter off pfizer asking me to sign so my doc could give them my info ... is this a good sign im wondering is there light at the end of this long tunnel are they going to admit the truth at long last .... im waiting with baited breath