Anyone any experience of dentist pulling out baby teeth?

[Purplespider]

My child may need two baby molars removed due to the fact they are obstructing his adult molars from coming in. I am wondering if anyone has had any experience of this? Child is 9. Wondering how long the procedure will take. And also I know it will vary from child to child, but would be interested to hear how other children coped?

DS2 had similar. They talked about a general anaesthetic originally as they were considering removing 4 teeth. He had 2, removed in the end with gas and air and anaesthetic injection in the gum.
They did them on separate days, and was done at the dental hospital.
They were really child centred and kind.
It wasn't at all traumatic, I think he was a little bit younger than your son

Thank you for your reply. So gas and air, they are unconscious? Not just sedated? The dentist said he would do it at the normal dentist under local anaesthetic. But he did appreciate that child is young and may need to have done at hospital. He said he would take direction from us as to whether or not we thought he would sit for it. Part of me wonders if I should just get local anaesthetic for him and it will be quicker and easier. Also I am not sure what waiting times are likely to be like at hospital and I understand that the sooner procedure is done the better.
But injection into the gum seems a lot to cope with at a young age.

I think officially dentists should offer local anaesthetic as first option

My son was almost 8 when he had one tooth removed, they used local anaesthetic. My husband took him so I can’t remember exactly but I think they told him to close his eyes when they did the injection. Then they said they were just going to put something on his gum. It was really quick and he coped very well. Had the day off school but was back the next day.

DS has had 2 baby teeth removed at the dentist with a local anaesthetic injection first (seperately occasions). In both cases the new tooth had come through but the old one hadn’t come out.
Took a couple of minutes to do in a normal appointment, he was 12 when the last one was done. I dropped him at school on the way home too once the bleeding had stopped. A soft lunch with no bits and salt water rinses and it will be fine.

I had loads of teeth out as a child as I was overcrowded so their solution was to pull as many teeth as possible to make room.

This was back in the 80’s though when children were supposed to not make a fuss. I remember the second or third time, they were going to pull 4 teeth out and I was terrified. I knew what was coming, I hated the GA and that feeling of disorientation coming round in pain with a mouthful of blood.

I was told to stop making a fuss as it was nothing. It wasn’t even routine to give painkillers.

Even now I’d take local every time, i have now problem being pushed and pulled around, but I hate GA.

More recently my Dd had a baby tooth out to make room for an adult tooth as they needed it through before she could get braces.

Because they’re baby teeth they pull easily, they even dithered about a local, but in the end they numbed her up good and proper and it was all over very quickly. I think they may have put some anaesthetic cream on the gum as she said the injections were fine.

Painkillers before and after, and for a few days. But she was straight back to school and no issues.

Ok that sounds relatively doable then. I wonder if it’s better to get both done in one sitting or on separate occasions. I think he requires 2 injections each side. So 4 injections in total. The teeth that need to come out aren’t due to come out for another 2 or 3 years in normal circumstances. So they aren’t loose in any way at the moment.
I think normally the adult molar has space to come in behind the baby molar, but in my sons case there isn’t space.

I can't comment on having it done at the dentist, but I was very impressed with the care and attention he got at the dental hospital.

I had this done as a kid - lots of baby teeth still hanging around while adult teeth were coming through. Two appointments, one for each side of the mouth so I could still eat OK afterwards - can't remember how far apart the appointments were but I do remember the appointments were on Fridays so I had the weekend if in pain. It was all very quick both times, the teeth came out very easily but painful a few hours later when the LA had worn off, I also remember being bribed for the second appointment with an array of stickers and the like by the dental nurse so I'm guessing I wasn't overly keen on the whole thing.

I had two baby molars extracted for the same reason as your ds.

Just normal anaesthetic injection that you would get at the dentist and I don't remember it being in any way traumatic.

Baby teeth don't have the same huge roots as adult teeth do (although they still had a bit of a root on them - I kept them for quite a while ) so it's not as "physical" a procedure as having an adult tooth extracted.

Thanks that’s a good point about getting one side done at a time so he can still eat. But also I wonder if he will be very reluctant to go back after first one removed