Daughter has wobbled tooth loose

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I was brushing my daughters teeth last night and noticed her front tooth at the top was loose. She admitted that she wobbled it loose herself as she wanted a visit from the tooth fairy!

It’s a baby tooth. She’ll be 6 in June and i understand these teeth come out sometime between 6-7.

Should I just leave it and I’m guessing it will just eventually fall out or is there anything a dentist could do? Maybe glue it in place? Is that possible?!?

Really worried it’s going to make the other teeth grow wonky.

Leave it

Let her wobble it with her tongue and it will eventually come out

Leave it alone. It will come out when it’s ready. Dd lost her first tooth before she started school, aged 4. Final baby tooth was lost at 9 and she’s since had braces early which has been amazing. They are all different. If it wasn’t already loose your dd couldn’t have made it that way.

Do not bother the dentist.

She’ll only have been able to wobble it if it was ready to come out. Just let it run it’s natural course to come out.

It's completely normal at her age. She won't have wobbled it loose from nothing. There were several children in DDs class in reception who lost teeth. She was very jealous!

They're supposed to come out! Let it happen, tooth fairy visits, all good.
If this is the first tooth you'll have plenty more practice.

It won't make the others grow wonky. The baby teeth fall out to give room for the adult teeth to come through. The gaps help - what you don't want is the adult teeth trying to come through into a crowded mouth.

Thanks for the advice. It’s her 4th tooth to come out.

The first two came out ‘normally’, she wobbled them once they’d started to come loose and the adult teeth were there to come through pretty much straight away.

This one (and I suspect the 3rd too) came out just because she’s forcefully wobbled them herself. The teeth around the 3rd one she pulled out herself are already a little wonky (and still no adult tooth in sight).

I’m worried the same will happen with this one which will be more noticeable as it’s the large tooth right at the front!

Er, it’s normal for children to wobble their teeth! It wouldn’t be wobbly unless it was ready to come out.
Your dentist would be very confused if you asked them to glue a 6 year old’s wobbly baby tooth in place...

Ah - I see what you mean.

But I don't think you can really forcefully wobble out a tooth that's not already on its way. The roots have to have begun to dissolve for it to be able to be 'wobbled'. I suspect it is merely coincidence that the other ones look slightly wonky. It all usually evens out.

Do you have a trip to the dentist booked soon? They can reassure - but it's not urgent and they won't do anything now it's wobbly.

My DD has done this with every tooth. As soon as each one got even a little bit wobbly, she gets obsessed with wobbling them. Usually gets them out within a couple of weeks, it must be really sore because they do bleed a bit, but she just ignores that... her adult teeth so far are beautifully straight, 10 at the front so far, & a gap where she pulled another out a couple of days ago. She's 8. Lots of kids do it, it's normal.

You can’t wobble a tooth that isn’t ready to start coming out. Unless she’s bashed it with a hammer which would be a committed way to seek a tooth fairy visit

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You can’t wobble a tooth that isn’t ready to start coming out. Unless she’s bashed it with a hammer which would be a committed way to seek a tooth fairy visit

😂😂 I don’t think she went quite as far as a hammer! 😂😂

I’m just going on what she’s said. She said it wasn’t wobbly at all when she started. She said she’s been wobbling it a little every day for weeks and now it’s so loose that I’ve noticed it!

She said she really wanted a tooth fairy visit so decided to get one out herself!

I know if she’d loosened a tooth by having an accident like hitting her face it’s best to take her to the dentist. Wondering if this type of self extraction could also cause some trauma?

There is no way she has managed to loosen a tooth that wasn't ready.

There is very often some time between teeth falling out and the new ones coming it.

Please don't take her to the dentist, they will mark you down as barmy!

I don't think it's be possible to wobble a tooth out that wasn't ready to come out?! Not without a lot of pain anyway!!!!

Leave it. And don't glue it or yank it out!

It seemed plausible to me that with enough perseverance you could wobble a tooth loose however it seems I’m wrong!

The majority on here seem to be saying it could only come out if it’s already loose. Maybe I’ll have to let her have her visit from the tooth fairy after all! 🤣