Is this normal

[Lisa0911]

My son who is 6 lost his first front tooth at 4 years old and till now the tooth hasnt grow back ,he lost other teeth too which came back after few weeks . The dentist keep telling me is fine and it will grow back when hes 7 /8 but why would a tooth takes 3/4 years to grow back . Its this normal and anyone child been the same too?

When you say he lost it, was this an accident? or just natural wobbliness. Teeth become wobbly when the adult tooth underneath push them out of the way, so if it is lost in an accident, the adult tooth may well not be there yet, and still be on its way.

If it was lost because it was wobbly, the adult tooth must be there, because that is what would have pushed it out of the way, so must be very close beneath the surface.

Either way, nothing to worry about, he was born with a full set of adult teeth already in his gums, they will come through in time.

My friend's daughter lost her 4 front top teeth in an accident aged 3. She's just turned 7 and there's no sign of the adult teeth coming yet. Dentist isn't worried. They come when they come.

Either way, nothing to worry about, he was born with a full set of adult teeth already in his gums, they will come through in time.

Unlikely in this case but that isn't always true. I still have some baby teeth because the adult ones aren't there to replace them. I was seemingly born without premolars, wisdom teeth and some of my molars. (Only ever had 23 adult teeth rather than the standard 32).

Conversely my father was born with a complete 3rd set of teeth which needed removing and my sister had 4 top canines.

Teeth are funny things!

Not always true, no, but almost always! If the tooth was pushed out, there was something there to push it

That's true.