Loose tooth

[binkacat]

My 5yo has her first ever loose tooth. It doesn't seem too wobbly yet (not that she'd let me feel), but she was crying at tea that it hurt and there was a tiny amount of blood around the bottom.

How long roughly before it falls out? She's refusing to eat and really upset about it. I so hope it falls out soon

It varies. It took two weeks for dd's first one to come out, her second one has been wobbly for about three weeks.

Once it reaches the point where they can make the tooth stick out horizontally (yeurchh) it's probably going to be that day but otherwise you can't really tell.

Oh, and if it's any consolation dd's have only hurt on the day she first found they were loose - after that they were fine and she's been fine eating too.

I think I would faint if she gets her tooth to stick out horizontally at me!

I deal with blood and gore every day at work - no problems. But I'm ever so squeamish when it comes to teeth.

Hiya - my dd isn't quite 5 yet and has just lost her first 2 teeth within a couple of weeks!! They've been loose for ages but all of a sudden they got really loose and she was doing the tongue pushing it down flat thing [puke emoticon!!] but they just fell out with no probs about 2 days later - first one at school, no idea where it went, second one at home, also lost/swallowed!

Make up an elaborate magical tooth fairy story - it helped dd feel a bit better about what was happening