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Teeth!!!

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magsi · 30/06/2007 17:26

Hi guys, just wanted to pick your brains. My son is 5.5 and has already started to loose his teeth!. On investigation today after wondering why he was a little under the weather, he has already lost two small ones at the bottom and one is really loose. He has cp and cannot talk but it was a bit of a shock when I looked in his mouth. I thought kids started to loose their teeth at about 7-8. I am sure it is nothing to do with his sn, but just wondered when your kids started to loose theirs?

In anticipation....

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PersonalClown · 30/06/2007 17:40

I nearly passed out in shock when ds came home from school missing one of his bottom teeth.
He'd knocked one out a year ago and I thought he'd done it again.
It seems to be average to loose them around 5 years old. Ds was 4.5! He's ASD so can't tell me when they are loose etc.

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magsi · 30/06/2007 17:54

Thanks PersonalClown, thats made me feel better . My son can't tell me either as he cannot talk, so a lot of it is discovery! Poor thing, and I was nagging him to eat his tea aswell!!

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coppertop · 30/06/2007 18:28

Ds1's class all started losing theirs at around the age of 5.

tibni · 30/06/2007 19:07

Reception age seems to be the norm. My ASD son lost his first tooth last week, he is 6.4! I spoke to my dentist on our last visit and he said he had read some recent research on ASD children being later to lose teeth.

My non verbal ASD son actually showed me his loose tooth then 10 mins later was holding said tooth in his hand (there was no way he could leave it alone). We had a little blood but he really wasn't bothered and proudly has shown his "gap" to his classmates!

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magsi · 30/06/2007 19:29

tibni , he must have been very proud. I tryed to explain about the tooth fairy, but just got a blank look like 'yeh, o.k. mum, whatever you say'. Quite funny really . God, I feel like he is really growing up now getting his second teeth!

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tibni · 30/06/2007 19:32

My son didn't get tooth fairy but his big sister is a big believer. Luckily we had a sensible tooth fairy who left the money safely on the windowsill - almost like she knew!

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magsi · 30/06/2007 19:46

I'm deffinitely going to persist with the tooth fairy thing with him though. I just want so much for all of my kids to share the same magical stories and anticipations that I did as a child. When I think back to how excited I was looking under the pillow in the morning and seeing that 50p and imagining the tooth fairy carving a little toy out of the tooth.....brings a smile to my face. Perhaps I should twist the story a little and tell him that we will leave the window open for her, that might be more realistic and believable for ds.

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KarenThirl · 02/07/2007 10:16

J was the last in his class to have all his teeth, didn't lose his first one till the week before he turned 8, whereas all the others started losing theirs in Reception/Y1. I told him about the tooth fairy but he just looked at me sympathetically and said "There's no tooth fairy really, is there? It's just parents."

Ah well, he might have missed out on a bit of childhood magic but at least he's got good dental hygiene.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 02/07/2007 10:29

DS (just 7) has lost quite a number of his milk teeth now. Luckily, he has not swallowed any yet and knows that the tooth fairy will come so that's a pretty good incentive for him not to eat them. (He eats prettymuch everything else..)

3 weeks ago he had a VERY wobbly lower tooth which he wouldn't let us "wobble out". A couple of nights later he went to bed and on the monitor we heard some grunts and groans, went racing up (as he has epilepsy) and found he has yanked out not only the wobbly tooth but it's "twin" on the other side!!! And that one was a "double tooth" (just one of DS's many quirks!) and had not even been wobbly to our knowledge!!!

There was blood everywhere (!) and DS was VERY proud of himself! The tooth fairy brought £3 (in view of the double one). Just as well DS does not understand the value of money as he would be ripping out one a night I expect...

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magsi · 02/07/2007 10:38

Shiny.... Blimy, you had better keep your eye on him!! . I wasn't sure if it was just the little teeth that come out and the big ones stay in?

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magsi · 02/07/2007 19:24

Well, today the wobbly one fell out at dinnertime. It came home in a little box and we have just hurried upstairs all excited to put it under ds1's pillow ready for the fairy. As I was tucking up his sister in bed, he started to cry and I have managed to fathom out that he wants to keep the tooth and put it back in his mouth! (he cannot talk and it is a lot of guesswork!). So I have had to write a little note to the fairy asking if he could keep it on this occasion......Bless, he does get VERY attached to things.

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