1yr old missing lower lateral incisor, unlikely to get on in future.

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This is my sister's 1yr old. She has been told that he is missing a lower lateral incisor (R) His left lower and two upper lateral incisors are there.

He won't get on in his adult teeth if there is no milk tooth.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Will his other teeth fill the gap, will it look weird? Curious.

TIA

Get ONE in the future.

I imagine the rest of his teeth will shuffle along and fill the gap. Our 9,5 dd is having six out next week, there's no room for her adult teeth in her tiny jaw.
Out of interest, how did she find this out?

my ds is missing his upper lateral incisors, so do i so he must've inherited it from me.

the teeth will spread out a bit to fill the gap.

i used to be able to fit a pound coin between my front teeth! can't anymore but they are still gappy.

I know two teenagers, brother and sister, who are both missing their two upper lateral incisors. It's genetic, and the only thing you can do is consult a good orthodontist (or two, or three) who will think of the best way to make a DC's teeth look nice with braces/removal.

kreecher - I can't get hold of her right now, but Mum thinks she just noticed it missing and googled it. I will follow up and get back when she calls.

Thanks for the posts.

i am missing mine on the top, it was removed in the heyday of tooth removal that was the seventies. [overcrowding icon]

anyhoo, the dentist has shaped my other tooth to look like an incisor, and i can't say that i have ever noticed it since then.

mmm interesting.

My db's milk teeth were fine but when his adult teeth came through he had a very small misshapen upper lateral inscisor on one side and no tooth on the other side. This was back in the days when normal dentists did cosmetic treatments and Dentist capped the small one and on the other side the canine moved into the gap and this was capped to match.

shameless bump.

Just wondering, if it's just that your sis noticed it missing it doesn't necessarily mean it isn't there at all / won't come through at some point. DD has had one incisor at the bottom since about 1 year old, is just now at 18 months getting the tip of the other one coming through.

Happened to my sister.
She had braces(train tracks) to move the teeth to make a space for a false one to be fitted.
Hers is attached to another tooth with a permenant wire, but they can be fitted into the gum.
This was done by the time she was 17.
The final work was done privately to get a good match to her other teeth - you really don't know it's there.

if baby tooth missing does not necessarily mean adult tooth missing only way to tell is with xray sometimes treeth are way out of position so can not erupt in normal place, missing teeth is not that rare, depending where it is can be replaced with a false tooth as bridge implant etc, or other teeth can be moved around to fill space, your dentist should monitor and with orthodontist see what is best for you and DC

most common teeth to be missing are wisom teeth then lateral incisors then second premolars, ie counting from centre as 1, 8. 2 and 5,

it is extremely rare for number 1 3 or 6 to be missing though upper canines(3) can be displaced as often last tooth to erupt

although distressing when you find out it can be fixed, though I do not think a missing baby tooth would be replaced, though sometimes they fit a small metal loop to make sure other teeth do not drift forward into space and stop adult teeth coming through too far forward

I noticed only last week that my ds (16 months) only had three lower incisors and searched on here for advice but couldn't find any - then saw this thread today!

I popped in to my dentist with ds just to check and he seemed very unconcerned. Said it may or may not mean the adult tooth will appear, impossible to say, and ds may need brace later on. Nort much we can do about it and I got the impression not much to worry about in the great scheme of things.

I don't understand. He is one? Surely all his teeth aren't in yet (my DD was 15 months before she got any). Our dentist seemed unconcerned a few weeks ago at her check up (age 23 months) that she has 11 teeth.

I'm missing 2 of my top incisors. So is my dad, my aunt and my cousin.

I had braces as a child and now have beautiful teeth .

Chances are that my dd will also be missing them, although both she and I had all our baby teeth.

My best friend at school never grew her upper two lateral incisors, neither did her sister. Assume it was genetic. It wasn't particularly noticeable, there weren't any gaps.

I don't know if it helps, but my brother knocked out two teeth when he was 17. You can't see the gap any more. I didn't know, but apparently even an adult's mouth still moves, and a child's mouth is growing and teeth are spreading all the time. It doesn't mean the gap will necessarily close all the way naturally, but the dentist will be able to help it one the way.

*on, obviously. Sorry.

I'm missing two upper incisors too (dad missing 1, his mum both), it' a very exclusive club! not least because of the potential cost of dental bills.......

Had a crap dentist when I was pre/early teen who just built up the canines to look like incisors (and failed to notice a cross bite), but there were massive gaps and I hated my teeth, thought I was ugly. At 16 my dad paid for private treatment to have braces, open up the spaces, and fit maryland bridges. One broke a few years back and I had an implant, which is brilliant. Wanted the other bridge replaced with an implant but there isn't enough space so I would have to have braces again to open up gap. Too much effort and money IMO until the bridge breaks and I have to do it.

I love talking about it . Don't think you have anything to worry about at 1 yo though!

Very similar story to NE11.

My sister is missing a top incissor and needed extensive orthodontic work as well. She has a false one fitted on q permanent bridge and its so good you can't tell which one it is.

My dentist went the opposite way, and gave me braces to close up all the gaps. You really can't tell that I've got 2 top teeth missing now.