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[quote=Anonymous]My ds is the king of shark teeth. The problem with shark teeth is that it's the adult tooth coming up under the baby tooth that dissolves the root of the baby tooth. If the adult tooth isn't coming up in such a way as to dissolve the root, there's nothing that will make the baby tooth come out. So I think there's no general rule -- it's not an emergency, you can wait until after your vacation, but you do need to talk to your dentist about what the odds are of the baby tooth coming out on its own.

My ds ended up having seven baby teeth pulled (his first two in kindergarten, his third one during oral surgery he had to have a year ago, and his last four just a couple of months ago, at age 12) because there was no way they were coming out on their own. Four of them had no roots, they were just stuck in his gums and weren't coming out on their own. Three of them still had roots and definitely weren't coming out on their own because the adult teeth didn't dissolve the roots.

If I had to do it over again I would have been more proactive on a) getting a panoramic x-ray done sooner to see what was going on with the alignment of the adult teeth under the gums and b) getting the baby teeth out sooner to set up a clear path for the adult teeth to come in. With his last upper canine, the adult tooth came in pretty significantly far back because the baby tooth was in the way. Our dentist had told us to wait, it would come out on its own -- our orthodontist told us to get it out. Wish we'd done it sooner because it's just going to make his time in braces that much longer.

I also wish we'd gotten the panoramic sooner (our old dentist and orthodontist didn't do them, no idea why) because one of his adult teeth grew sideways under his other teeth to the extent he had to have it removed as there was no way to save it. He just has a wacky bunch of teeth and we would have been much better off if we'd seen those issues coming so we could have potentially taken less drastic action. The oral surgery really, really sucked.[/quote]

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