Supervising the boy brushing his teeth last night, I noticed that he’s got one of those anarchist teeth coming in behind his lower front teeth.
He’s not quite 6 and hasn’t lost any of his baby teeth yet. Is this one of those teeth that must be surgically removed, or will it push the baby out and migrate foreward?
Thanks.
jds
Local dentists seem to overtreat. In this case they will want to remove the tooth as “permanent hideous deformity will appear overnight”, let it ride for a bit and the baby tooth will come probably start to loosen up. It is very hard resisting the insidious pushing for othodontic treatment for little kids. My 9yo “must have braces now” or she will look like “Predator”, she has only got 8 adult teeth and her jaw is still growing. Ask the dentist for an opinion not treatment. Get a 2nd and 3rd opinion.
we just had the same thing happen, they recommended pulling the front two baby teeth as they were still in pretty good. this was the kids dental clinic at changgeng in taipei, well set up for kids.
Thanks. The new tooth just broke through the gum. How long should we wait?
doh! I realize the answer is until my son is complaining about the intense PAIN in his mouth. 
This has happened to my children. My daughter was scared to see the adult teeth coming out behind the baby teeth. The dentist said it’s not uncommon for the new teeth to come out before the old ones fall off. Since my daugher was complaining I had her two baby teeth removed (US$230, if no insurance coverage.)
My son’s recently had his first two permanent teeth coming out with the baby teeth still there. He didn’t complain and his baby teeth had started to get loose and eventually came out by themselves about a month later.
My brother’s teeth happend that way. The dentist wanted to surgically remove the baby teeth and put braces on to push the mature tooth forward. However, my parents couldn’t afford it, so they just waited. The baby tooth fell out by itself after a few weeks. Eventually the adult teeth moved forward on their own.
Jds:
You might want to wait until the tooth is about 1/2 way through. If the tooth in front of it is still solidly rooted in place, then the dentist will most likely take it out. But the tooth behind will come forward once that one is gone.
My son has gone through this several times already. It helps to have a good dentist that anethesizes the gum by rubbing on it first, before applying the anethesia with the needle. That’s really the hard part for the child (the needle in the gum). If the anesthesia is done properly, then there is no pain when the tooth comes out.
Anchor
Well, he’s got an appointnment this week so we’ll see what’s what.
Does the dentist rub anything ON the gum, or just rub the gum?
[quote=“jdsmith”]Well, he’s got an appointnment this week so we’ll see what’s what.
Does the dentist rub anything ON the gum, or just rub the gum?[/quote]I think Anchor means the little swab with some kind of numbing-stuff on. It reduces the sting when the needle with the real anaesthetic goes in.
Well, it’s gone, the baby tooth that is. We had an xray taken and the root was gone but the new tooth just wasn’t pushing it out.
I little numbing gell and squirt of supercold gas??? and a yank, and viola, it was gone.
A few tears. No big deal.
Now, on to the Tooth Fairy. I’m thinking 50NT$.
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It was about that fast! I expected some yanking back and forth…but spray, clamp, pull, look of shock on boy’s face 
, eyes welling up, daddy’s here.
badabing
I also learn the new tooth absorbs or disolves the babytooth’s root as it comes out. cool
[quote=“jdsmith”]Now, on to the Tooth Fairy. I’m thinking 50NT$.[/quote]That’s inflation for you. It was fifteen pence (8NT now) when I was a kid.
I would get hard candy…ah, the irony.
Well, the Tooth fairy slipped in last night, grabbed the tooth, wrapped in tinfoil because “It’s easier for the Tooth fairy to see it in the dark” and left a tinfoil wrapped 50NT$.
I was afarid he’d start bashing his teeth out to get a bike or something, but he was genuinely surprised and excited. Cool. 
jdsmiling
GEEEEZ!
I’m sitting here, and beside my table is a plastic drawer thingy. The top drawer contains the tooth, wrapped in foil, in the little plastic bag the Dentist put it in.
So, my son comes in to say goodnight, hits the back of the drawer, it opens. He looks in and sees the tooth.
“How did this get here?” He asks in a Cindy Loo Who voice?
“Well, my little tot,” said JdGrinch. “The Tooth fairy told me that the root was not totally disovled so she wouldn’t be able to put in into a baby’s mouth”…I told him that the Tooth Fairy basically cleans and recycles baby teeth.
“She said we could keep this one.”
He looks at me slyly. "OK, but can I put it in my box (a big handcrafted Cyprus memory box that I keep all his cool stuff in, and his bellybutton).
“Sure,” says the grinchy pop. “That’s where I was going to out it anyway.”
“Huh?”
“Nothing. night now.”
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ! I’m going to put the next one in a safe deposit box. :s
Quick thinking jdsmith!
Like JD I was terrified of being caught. Once a year doing santa I can handle, but now the teeth it’s just going to be over and bloody over again. Plus our boy insists on putting the tooth in a little bag (I think of them as stash bags, the sort JD got caught red-handed with). SO that means (I suppose it means) I have to find another similar bag for the 50NT – can’t really do the swap while actually in the room.
Both his old teeth are sitting in my underwear drawer of all places. Don’t know what to do with them really. :s
Perhaps if we all just left the teeth under the pillow the REAL tooth fairy would come along?
Oh yeah here in Taiwan they don’t have a tooth fairy, they throw the teeth out of the window or up in the air or something… Will my and jd’s kids get confused when they find this out?
funny, same thing happened to me this time, stashed the gauze with teeth in the drawer, kid happened to be standing there as i was looking for something in the drawer and smashed out a WHAT’S THAT pointing and staring at the gauze, lol, oh nothing, shove, she seemed pretty doubtful about the whole tooth fairy thing anyway
Damn! Same thing is happening to other lower front tooth…coming in behind the baby teeth.
Tell me…
please
…this doesn’t happen with upper teeth and molars does it?
I feel I’ll to take the boy for a regular cleaning after this one gets yanked, just to watch cartoonies on the lcd tv over the chair and so he won’t think every trip to the dentist is a painful wrenching!
[quote=“joesax”][quote=“jdsmith”]Now, on to the Tooth Fairy. I’m thinking 50NT$.[/quote]That’s inflation for you. It was fifteen pence (8NT now) when I was a kid.[/quote]Actually, considering how old you are… I think jd is being
cheap. 50NT? That’s it? Poor kid… 
bobepine
[quote=“bobepine”][quote=“joesax”][quote=“jdsmith”]Now, on to the Tooth Fairy. I’m thinking 50NT$.[/quote]That’s inflation for you. It was fifteen pence (8NT now) when I was a kid.[/quote]Actually, considering how old you are… I think jd is being
cheap. 50NT? That’s it? Poor kid…
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Please.
Take a look under our Christmas tree and you would say “Poor mom and dad.” 