My 14yr old, still has a lot of baby teeth, is this normal?

[TooHotToTangoToo]

My dd, 14, doesn't have all her adult teeth, I'd say all bar one, of her molars are still baby teeth. Is this normal?

So your ds has lost ONE baby tooth?

One MOLAR.

No.

Can nobody read?

The op says her DD has lost one molar not one tooth!

Exactly. People are so eager to condemn, tell everyone they are wrong and predict doom and gloom that they don't actually read properly!

She's got all her adult front teeth, but all bar one of her molars are still her baby teeth.

The dentist has never raised it as an issue. They mentioned a few years ago she might need braces if her front teeth don't straighten out, but they have straightened out naturally, so she was told she wouldn't need a brace. Not at any point has the dentist mentioned her baby molars being an issue

Anyway, I've booked her in to see the dentist tomorrow so I'll come back an update

My DD had this problem, she had regular appointments and it was brought up a few times by the dentist. At one point the dentist said if the adult teeth hadn't started coming through by the next appointment, then treatment would have to be started. (Age 15 at next appointment). This was years ago. Fortunately, they came through and she was able to start orthodonture appointments (she needed a brace and that couldn't be started until the adult teeth came through - That's what I was told anyway at the time), By the age of 19 she had perfect teeth. But she went through hell to get them!

Apologies, just reread my op and can see where some of the confusion comes from, her front teeth are adult teeth, is the majority of her molars that are still baby teeth

Dentist here. A few points:

• Not sure if you are aware but first adult molars come through around 6 years of age and they are behind the baby teeth so no baby teeth need to fall out to accommodate them, so you may not have realised they are adult teeth.

• Retained baby teeth isn't an 'emergency' but it would be good to get her seen by a dentist and xrays taken so a plan can be made. The most common reasons for a baby tooth to be retained are that the adult tooth beneath is congenitally missing, or that it's in an abnormal position and therefore can't erupt by itself and push the baby tooth out.

• As an FYI to other posters, poor diet doesn't cause baby teeth to be retained.

Thanks you @Housenoob that's good to know

Also, second molars usually come in between 11-13 years. If your DC is 14 and they haven't yet come through I wouldn't be too worried yet, they may just be a bit delayed.

Have her premolars come through?

Me and my 3DC all lost our teeth later than expected. DS is 13 and still has only lost one molar like your DD. He hasn't even lost all his canines yet. I mentioned it to his dentist as he's likely to need braces like his sisters and she did x rays. The teeth are there, just taking longer to move down. DD2 had to have her canines removed at 15 and the adult teeth still took a year to come through fully!

Ask for x rays, then if there's an issue they can sort it sooner rather than later.

@TooHotToTangoToo my 14 year old still has most of his baby molars. Apart from lockdown, he's seen a dentist every 6 months since he was born (he came with me, but now has his own appt), dentist is aware, and not unhappy. X rays have shown that all but one of his adult molars are waiting to come through; dentist is not concerned about the missing one, it's apparently not unusual.

DS didn't get his first tooth until the week before his first birthday, and didn't loose any baby teeth until he was nearly 7. He just does teeth a bit late.

I have one adult molar, the rest are baby teeth! Some of my adult teeth never formed. Luckily, they x-rayed me and saw that first... My poor mum, however, in the 60s just had all of hers taken out when they told her she should have adult teeth by now and has lived with dentures all of her adult life!

It is worth raising with dentist - though ours were checking with x-rays that they had the adult teeth there from late primary school onwards.

That might have been down to me - I'm missing two adult teeth - was a shock to my DP at time but while my own parents aren't affected an Uncle was to a much more server degree than I was. Indeed childhood dentist asked if my parenst were from a certain area - which one was - as it was a known condition for some families there.

All three of my children have same missing two adult teeth - but my parents and siblings and their children - my DN - don't have it.

My daughter had 5 baby teeth that had no adult teeth beneath. She had to have these removed and braces have been on for 2 years now. She’s 18. They wouldn’t do it until she had grown and her jaw was adult sized… not sure how much longer. The orthodontist says it’s a tricky job. She was referred to nhs but then Covid and wasn’t given an appointment to start until this year due to backlog. We went private.

I had to have most of my baby teeth surgically removed (the adult teeth grew behind). I distinctly remember getting some molars removed at 16 (had just done my summer exams). They might have been wonky, but I only have a few tiny fillings in my 50's.

Dd(15) has similar teeth, to a lesser extent.
3 teeth were removed over the summer as they were growing over baby teeth and another 3 (inc 2 premolars) are set to come out shortly. We'd had some xrays a few years ago to check that adult teeth were in place and Covid rather dictated the "wait and see" approach.

It has taken a while to get an orthodontist again. The first suggested leaving things pre-covid. The second did a full mouth xray and noticed one of her adult teeth is at a jaunty angle (hence the decision to give it some space to descend and hopefully correct itself).

I'd push for some xrays OP.

How on earth do you know that? Mine go every 6 months and it was only at the last appt that the dentist mentioned that he’s still got a couple of baby teeth (he’s 14).

she did an X-ray, checked for the adult teeth and referred him (very calmly!) to the orthodontist for a check just in case.