Did your child make repetitive noises when losing milk teeth?

[Anonymous]

DEpending on what you are describing exactly (without seeing it, that is) - i would either be alarmed or that It could just be her experimenting with talking; pre-verbal development.

[Anonymous]

The op may not be American. I dont use the term but have a lot of international friends who use the term milk teeth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are milk teeth? Let’s start there.

What country or culture calls them milk teeth?!?

Oh my god you people sound so provincial. I always heard baby teeth referred to as milk teeth when I was living in London, Cape Town, Sydney, and Mumbai.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are milk teeth? Let’s start there.

Not OP but what planet are you from? Milk teeth are baby teeth.

I am from Earth and have never heard the term "milk teeth". Is this a southern thing? Sounds like a southern thing.

It’s a “rest of the world” thing. It’s also common in much of the US — but I’ve never lived in the south so can’t say for that region.

[Anonymous]

Putting aside the whole “milk teeth” thing.... neither of my kids made weird sounds when losing their teeth. OP, I would talk to your pediatrician because maybe there’s something else going on. It could be anything from Tourette’s, to being on the spectrum and stimming, to enjoying the noise that’s made with the spaces in the kids mouth now. Either way, the grunting is not something that obviously goes along with losing teeth or everyone on DCUM would know about it.

[Anonymous]

Her oral nasal passages and gums could be swollen from losing so many teeth at one time, and she could be doing a lot of throat clearing and nasal sounds to try to compensate. I would take her to the dentist to start with.

[Anonymous]

I thought you only called them milk teeth in dogs.

[Anonymous]

I'd start with a visit to the dentist. It could be swollen oral tissues, or bruxism (grinding her teeth).

It could also be that it's fun to make noises because they sound funny with the missing teeth, or it's fun to play with the loose/missing teeth. (When I lost a tooth, my grandma would tell me that the new one would grow in gold if I didn't stick my tongue in the hole --- no kid on the planet can resist doing that.)

If it continues when she doesn't have any loose/missing teeth, it might be a sign of something more troubling.