teething & 'clacking' of teeth.

[munz]

help! joey has found he has 4 teeth at the top, 3 at the bottom and has worked out he can grat/clack them about- the grating is really not nice - and I worry it will harm his teeth.

any ideas on stopping it/if it's a phase?

Dd did it too - drives you to distraction, doesn't it!

My dentist told me that babies instinctively do this with their teeth when they first come through, partly because they are new and so feel strange, but partly so that too-sharp edges are ground down and so that their "bite" - the way the top and bottom teeth fit together - is correct.

Have a look at this - there's a bit there about babies doing it.

thanks wwb - so I shouldn't worry too much then about him moving ihs jaw to do it? (there's 4 on the top - and only 3 underneath so he moves the bottom jaw to get a good 'crinding' sound if u excuse the term.

Let the dentist have a look if you're worried, munz, but it should be OK.

Dd used to push her jaw backwards and forwards to make the tips of her teeth click against each other, and it worried me to start with but as I said, the dentist wasn't concerned at all.

It lasted for a couple of months, then stopped just out of the blue.