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Milk teeth - how many fall out?

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Boco · 25/02/2008 10:12

I can't remember at all.

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Boco · 25/02/2008 10:14

Ok i know all the milk teeth fall out - but how many of them are there?

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HereComeTheGirls · 25/02/2008 10:35

20!

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Boco · 25/02/2008 10:40

Oh God really? Are you serious?

I thought it was just the front 4!

I am hating teeth. DDs are crowded at the bottom, no room for her baby ones so when the big ones come through I don't know where they're going to go and really freaked out by dentists. Can't even google and look for teeth things cause makes me so repulsed.

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Meeely2 · 25/02/2008 10:43

her mouth will grow, but if still squdged up she will have braces - EVERYONE who's ANYONE has braces!

Try and be calm else she will get a teeth phobia too!

My DS has wonky crowded baby teeth, but he's 3 and only has 16 at the mo, not sure where the last 4 have gone, but me and DH had shocking teeth and both had braces so we expecting it.

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Boco · 25/02/2008 10:45

I had braces too - I think that's why I hate them so much - the railroad tracks with elastic bands going from top jaw to bottom jaw that used to ping out at unexpected time and make me cringe with embarrassment. And lots of teeth taken out to make room. Hate it hate it hate it.

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WigWamBam · 25/02/2008 10:48

Has she already started losing her teeth, Boco? Because if not, it might not happen for a couple of years anyway. Dd was almost 5 when hers started coming out, but there are plenty of children coming up to 7 in her class now who are only just starting to lose theirs.

You'd be surprised how they all squeeze in - the milk teeth sort of move around to let the bigger ones grow, it's really odd.

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Boco · 25/02/2008 10:51

No she's not lost any yet and will be six in June. Her bottom middle two have got so squashed not though that they're growing sideways - it makes me cringe but obv not letting on at all.

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WigWamBam · 25/02/2008 10:56

I think you need to swallow your fear and see a dentist if her teeth are growing sideways. Chances are that it won't affect her second teeth but it might put your mind at rest.

I know it's horrible because I share your fear of the dentist, but a little reassurance might go a long way. Plus it's only by taking her and making it seem normal that you'll avoid passing your fear onto your daughter.

Meeely2 · 25/02/2008 11:04

I had four perfectly good teeth removed to make room for my teeth and then age 28 or 29 can't remember, my wisdom teeth decided to make an appearence and pushed everything forward again.

I didn't loose my last milk tooth til I was 16 and even then it had to be encouraged so that I could have my brace fitted.

I am still waiting on 2 wisdom teeth and I'm now 32!

Get your daughter to a dentist though, as if they are that jumbled theres a possibility she can't clean them properly and decay will set in. I had to have 2 fillings in milk teeth, not nice, but luckily fell out with teeth and not had any since.

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Boco · 25/02/2008 11:17

I think I'll get dp to take her because he's relaxed about it and I think I'll be crawling up the wall.

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WendyWeber · 25/02/2008 11:23

How old is she, boco? Have her first adult molars started coming through at the back? That would squidge the baby teeth up.

Listen to Meeely, she is right, you have got to overcome your own fear of dentists so that DD can have beautiful straight even teeth when she grows up (

WigWamBam · 25/02/2008 11:25

It would probably be better for her to go with someone who isn't stressed out about it - she'll pick up on it otherwise.

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Boco · 25/02/2008 11:28

Eurg. I really don't want to even look for molars.

When I had a tooth taken out to make room when I was about 12 the dentist couldn't get it out, pulled and pulled and eventually snapped it - so root still in there somewhere. Had no problems with dentists before that - but that NOISE of snapping tooth in your head, and was so bruised and swollen for ages - and it was a totally healthy happy tooth! Since then, I force myself to go if i have to but dread it and hate it. And have a bit of a thing about the girls teeth. Hated teething - didn't want to look.

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Meeely2 · 25/02/2008 11:34

i had a traumatic wisdom tooth removal too, and have not been back since (but I look after my teeth religiously since I am proud of the result post braces and don't want to ruin it), but I will be taking the DT's as soon as I find another dentist that takes nhs. I WILL NOT have the butcher that took out my wisdom looking at my sons teeth!

Let your DH take the strain, it can be a little bonding trip, daddy and daughter being grown up.

WendyWeber · 25/02/2008 11:34

WWB, it's much too early for gin!

Sherry, now...

Boco, that sounds horrendous and I'm not surprised you hate the buggers, but they have some really good equipment these days.

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Boco · 25/02/2008 11:39

God I'm a wimp.

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