Knocked out tooth at 3.5

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Our daughter (age 3 and a halfl) has recently knocked out her 3 front teeth in an accident. We are absolutely devastated for her and our dentist has said there is nothing they can do.

She is recovering really well, but I am just wondering if anyone has any experience or advice on this?

If so, did your child's teeth come back sooner as there is no tooth in the way? Or will she be without teeth until the average age of 7/?

We are also worried about her speech development as the gap is very large.

We have heard mentions of space maintainers and pediatric partials?

This is all very new and raw at the moment. But any advice or share of experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Hello, sorry to hear that this has happened. My daughter had her front tooth knocked out around the same age. It was just one tooth so not the same situation. Her second teeth came through at around age 6/7- so no sooner unfortunately despite the tooth not being in the way. She did have a bit of a lisp but that seemed to correct when her teeth came through.
I hope someone with more experience can offer some advice.

The same happened to my nephew. Just the 2 middle ones though. He had to wait for his adult teeth to grow through. He’s 12 now. There’s quite a gap between them and he’s probably going to need a brace to sort that.

Happened to my daughter. It just.started the normal progression. Her adult ones came in fine and she had most of them before her mates were losing their top ones.

She's 13 in Mar and has already had her braces on and now off. Majority of her friends are just getting them put on now.

My son knocked one of his front teeth out when he was a toddler, around the age of two.
His adult teeth came through as normal, around 6 or so years old and he's had no issues at all. In fact his teeth are lovely and straight with no discolouration.
My worry was always that one of his front ones would be grey and wonky!

Hi OP, I’ve been in your shoes. My daughter knocked her front tooth out aged 3.5, and about 6 months later, she had the other front one removed as she had an abscess (suspected to be caused by the initial trauma where her other tooth came out). It’s felt so stressful at the time, all of a sudden their smile looks completely different and it takes time to get used to it. The teeth at the side next to the one which was initially knocked out were also quite wonky but this all straightened out as she grew and things started to look a lot like a normal child who was just missing their front teeth.

i just kept telling myself it’s only teeth, she’s otherwise totally fine. Hope it’s the same for your daughter and she didn’t have any other injuries.

We had a great dentist who said there was nothing to do except wait for the adult teeth to come down. they came down when she was 6, and they were absolutely fine, came down normally. She had a very slight lisp but completely gone now her big teeth are in. No other space savers or anything required. I think it’s best just to leave it.

As funny as it sounds, you will get so used to her gappy smile. When my daughter’s adult teeth came in (after such a long wait!) I almost missed her cute goofy smile! My tip would be not to make too much of a big deal about it. When people asked I was always quite breezy about it. Of course there are always parents who would ask and gasp “oh my god how awful!” But I just kept it very breezey as I didn’t want my daughter to worry or feel self conscious or like it was something really terrible!
I really empathise as it’s hard as a parent but hopefully your daughter’s adult teeth will come down fine at the usual age. And as my dentist friend said, teeth can always be sorted when you are older if you ever need!
take care