DS8 has an adult tooth (top no. 2) emerging, sticking straight forwards! Baby tooth still there!

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Should I go to the dentist? The baby tooth is wobbly and there'll be enough room for an adult tooth in the gap but will the adult tooth migrate into the spot? I suspect he will need braces sooner or later as my teeth are crowded. I don't need an emergency appointment, I know, but should it be looked at sooner rather than later?

I mean "aged 8" not my 8th son!! Argh!

Don't panic - they move about a massive amount. When are you next due for the dentist?

I would check it out as sometimes they are 'spare' teeth.

The next scheduled appointment is June. I'm hoping that will be in time enough! You see some 'horror stories' of dentition requiring hundreds of pounds worth of work and I'd hope to avoid the worst of that!

I wouldn't worry too much, my ds (6) has had an adult tooth come up behind the baby tooth a while now and the baby tooth doesn't seem to want to budge! We were told the adult tooth wil at some point push forward to make the baby one wobbly

this has happened with all 4 teeth that my 8 year old DS has lost in the last few months.
one of the milk ones actually didnt even get wobbly and adult tooth was through fully, we did take him to dentist who had to cut the root (the root bit connecting it to gum) because it wasnt wobbly and just bent forward. All DSs other teeth though have eventually fallen out after adult tooth was half through and adult teeth which had been crooked have all straigtened out fine.

Thanks everyone! I had visions of major surgery at this point. I DREAD that first dental anaesthetic with DS- I'd always been quite 'grown up' about them but that was probably me playing 'Perfect Peter' to my brother's 'Horrid Henry', literally screaming the dentist's surgery down, aged 9! My poor mum. But the result is my brother, now 46, has dreadful teeth..... And DS1, of whom we speak, does show several character traits very reminiscent of my own DB!

I think June will be plenty soon enough. My dd1 had a second tooth come in at the side in a really odd place - it settled down eventually.

i reckon it will all settle fine by June!