Question about child losing teeth

[Kibbiekat]

Originally Posted by favesis21

My 8 1/2 yr old son started losing his teeth when he was 5 yrs. He lost them in the right order, starting with the front top teeth, then the bottom front teeth, etc. He lost 8 teeth one right after the other, with the permanent tooth coming down right away. Here's the problem: he has stopped losing teeth. The last tooth he lost happened over a year ago. No loose teeth right now. I check frequently. I wouldn't worry about this except that he literally lost all of the other teeth one right after the other with no gaps in time and the permanent teeth came down immediately after. It just seems odd to me that all of a sudden he has stopped and there is no sign of the other permanent teeth coming down regardless of the baby tooth being lost or not. Has anyone else experienced this?

When I was about 11, and needed braces, I had to have all of my back teeth pulled because they didn't fall out themselves. Then I had to have little chains attached to my adult teeth to pull them up out of my gums. Each visit, the ortho would tighten the chain by a link. Really fun! You might just want to check with your dentist at his next routine check up.

[cdc3217]

Originally Posted by beanandpumpkin

That's normal. Kids lose the four front teeth on the top and the four on the bottom, then go a couple of years before losing the incisors (canines) and baby molars. My son is also 8 1/2 and his tooth loss has gone the same as your son's. (Meanwhile, my daughter is 6 and is so eager to start getting loose teeth... but alas, nothing is wiggly yet!)

This is what our dentist told me as well, when I neurotically asked the same question. You lose the front 8, then there's a long break, then the last 8.

I remember losing at least one of my molars in High School, so everyone's different. They come out when they're good & ready.

[jimboburnsy]

I had all of my adult teeth, including wisdom teeth, by the time I was 12. My sister did not have her wisdom teeth emerge until she was in high-school. My wife had her un-emerged wisdom teeth removed when she was in college. I never had any degree of predictability - sometimes I would randomly have a tooth loosen, sometimes multiple teeth would loosen simultaneously, sometimes there would be long gaps between loose teeth. Everyone is different with regard to how they lose and replace their baby teeth.

I'm not sure if rapid, delayed or erratic tooth loss is a marker for any dental problems, but I'm quite certain that 8 1/2 is way, way, way too early to start being concerned about how a boy is losing his baby teeth.

[dsh1127]

Kids are all so different! Both of mine got and lost their teeth in phases. My son started getting teeth at about 6 months, and had 6 coming in all at once! Then he started losing them at 5 years, and had 7 all one after another, then a break, then the same thing again. My daughter didn't get her first tooth until she was a year old, and then she didn't start losing them until she was in 2nd grade! Poor thing, everyone else had lost their teeth in kindergarten!! She is ten now and still behind in losing teeth.

[DLOVLYONE]

My five year old son, just started kindergarten. The same day he started kindergarten he lost a tooth. The dentist said that this is normal for a child his age to start losing his teeth.