5 year old perm teeth coming in behind baby teeth!!!! - Dental Health Message Board

linda21 · 07-06-2007, 03:50 AM

My 5 year old has a adult tooth coming behind one of his baby tooth, this is his 1st adult tooth and should i be worried!! He is not in any pain or disfort. any advice or same expence i would love to hear from you.. (the tooth in question is his front bottom)

glowing4 · 07-06-2007, 04:44 AM

This is quite common and a few of my children had this. It is fine. The adult tooth will eventually force the baby tooth out. Sometimes a dentist will remove the baby tooth so there are no spacing problems, but usually once the baby tooth comes out on its own the adult tooth will move right into where it should be. Not to worry - that baby tooth will fall out soon.

glowing4

Joanna2007 · 07-09-2007, 10:29 PM

All my daughter's teeth came in this way. She always had one coming in before the baby tooth was out. Ped. dentist said it was normal and she is now 11 and literally all her teeth came in that way. It does look kind of freaky but is nothing to worry about.