Really slow tooth development

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DD is 2 years, 5 months and has all her incisors and her four first molars, but no canines or second molars. Everything online says the canines should be through by two years and that we should be seeing the second molars around nowish but there's no sign of either. She was on the slower end of normal with all the others.

I have congenital hypodontia, meaning one of my adult teeth just never developed. I've seen that it's genetic and am wondering if I've passed it on to her. It usually affects adult teeth but can affect baby teeth in some cases. Have asked dentist but she literally just shrugged her shoulders and said time will tell.

Anyone else have a kid with delayed tooth eruption? Anyone have hypodontia and did it affect your kids too?

I'm not overly worried about it as obviously if she is missing some teeth they can be replaced with artificial ones but obviously it'd be easier if they came through on their own!

I'm with your dentist and would also say time will tell. The only way to check if he teeth are there is to xray and if they are not there this would change nothing at the moment.

The eruption dates are averages and some children have early teeth, some are late. It's really uncommon to not get baby teeth and the fact that it's her cs and es and none of them are erupted is a sign they're just slow.

Dentists are much more alert when all but one teeth are through as that's more typical of a missing tooth or reason for non eruption. In answer to, can you pass it on yes but for adult teeth.

My DS didn't cut any teeth till he was 2.5 then cut his molars first. He's a full set now.