5 yo has a new tooth appearing BEHIND milk tooth - any experience of this?

[Shitemum]

I looked into her mouth and she has a tooth, the first permanent one to appear, coming through well behind the milk tooth...I look into the future and see a lot of expensive dental work

Her dad's front teeth are kind of crammed in, maybe she's inherited them.

Someone reassure me please!

[NattyPlus2andAHalf]

i had this as a child.
just means she has long roots on her baby teeth so the tooth TRIED to come up the right way but couldnt do diverted.
dentist will remove the milk tooth and the tooth with litrally (im not kidding) move forward over a few weeks.

nothing to worry about xx

[Shitemum]

The milk tooth was wobbly a couple of weeks ago but isnt now, so that sounds like it could be the reason.
should i make an appointment to get the milk tooth out? Or just wait and see?

[NattyPlus2andAHalf]

make an appointment as it wont hurt, dentist will be able to tell you if it needs to come out or if it will fall out.
this will happen more than once id say about half my teeth did this. next time you get a wobbly one, make sure it is woobled within an inch of its life to stop it happening again!!!

this is common btw, dentist will have seen it b4, so you wont be wasting their time or anything

[Shitemum]

Thanks - for some reason when she said she had a wobbly one I was extra careful not to brush it too hard! Duh. It just seemed like she was too young to be losing any milk teeth yet...
Have a friend who is a dentist, will ask him and he can tell her off again for sucking her finger all the time!

[McDreamy]

This has just happened to DD. We waited for the baby one to fall out (took ages) and the new one is almost completely straightened itself already.

[kylesmyloveheart]

this had happened to ds 7 with the 2 bottom front ones.

took him to dentist as soon as it happened and they said they wouldn't pull it out as its a healthy tooth. it will straighten up when the milk one falls out.

8 months later still waiting.

[Niecie]

This happened to my DS1 - freaked me out a bit as his teeth looked really jumbled. He is 8 yrs old now and they are lovely and straight. They do straighten themselves.

The milk tooth didn't need to be removed, it fell out all by itself within a month or two (maybe less, I can't honestly remember).

[mamakoukla]

Time for a visit to the dentist! I had to have many of my teeth pulled as a child as the permanent ones came in but the milk teeth were still firmly set.

On the plus side, I was so used to going to the dentist's to have teeth removed, I don't have an aversion to it or injections in the mouth.

Just make sure it's a good and nice dentist

[SofiaAmes]

Ds had this. Milk tooth was loose, but dentist pulled it out so that adult tooth wouldn't grow permanently crooked. New tooth straightened out on its own and dentist seems to think that ds will not need braces (even for the other teeth..says he has a nice big mouth). We are in the usa where they put braces on 7 and 8 year olds routinely, so I am considering myself very very lucky.

[Niecie]

Some people seem to have had teeth pulled but honestly, DS's tooth fell out of its own accord in only a few weeks. I wouldn't be in a hurry to rush to the dentist just yet. Why risk having a tooth pulled when it could happen naturally?

[Shitemum]

Thanks everyone! Prefer the wait and see approach I think...

[phdlife]

I had 3 of them - all pre-molars, iirc (it was a looooong time ago) - except mine did it the other way round, permanent tooth came in at the front, stump pushed to the back. Dentist removed them all at once, after they'd had plenty of chance to fall out and just didn't do it - once all the teeth were in. No harm done.

[Seeline]

My DS (7) has yet to loose a milk tooth, but he also has a new one appearing behind one of the front bottom teeth. He was at the dentist 2 weeks ago and she said it was perfectly OK and the little one will fall out. It isn't at all wobbly at the moment though.