Permanent Teeth Coming in Behind Baby Teeth and the Tooth Fairy

I thought my daughters teeth might come in like that because mine did. I think now the dentist will pull them out for you but I hd to wiggle and wait. Since they are baby teeth they do come out. I remember one of the last ones that came in like that. I was a little older and just wanted the darn thing out. So I attached a string to it. Tied the end of the string to a door knob and slammed it. Wham, Wham! The string was too short and I was standing too close. The door ricocheted back and hit me in the face Hard! To add insult to injury, my tooth was bleeding but didn't fall out at that point.

My younger daughter just went through this - we told her she was growing shark teeth! LOL Her bottom baby teeth were only a little bit loose, and both adult teeth grew in right behind them. We took her to the dentist, and he wiggled her bottom teeth and said, "They'll fall out on their own." He seemed totally unconcerned. So we had to keep telling her to wiggle her teeth. (A lot of kids are really reluctant to lose their first few teeth - I think they're afraid it will hurt, or they just don't like the idea of their teeth falling out.) Anyway, it took a long time (months) for her baby teeth to fall out. They finally did, though, and now her adult teeth are moving into place where the baby teeth had been.

In terms of how we celebrated it, my kids both have tooth fairy pillows, and they get a gold dollar. Is there some form of gold coin that you could use in Japan? (Or do you have any American money, since that will look unusual/exotic to your child?) It doesn't seem like throwing the tooth over the house will work in such a large building, I agree! :)

Our kids go to the pediatric dentist every 6 months and he told us months ahead of time that the permanent teeth were about to break through. I think that the dentist must not be worried if he didn't say anything at the last appointment.

If he needs to have the teeth pulled in a few months then deal with it then. Otherwise, his tooth will hang on and hang on and hang on until you have to pull it out. It takes weeks, maybe even a month, for a tooth to get loose enough to pull, much less fall out while he's asleep.

My daughter had this and the dentist said not to worry and to give it time. Sure enough within a couple of weeks she lost the baby tooth. The dentist said he would have to pull it only if months went by without the losing the tooth. I say stick with the tooth fairy. Kids love finding something under the pillow!

My daughter had "sharks teeth" two rows of teeth - many of her baby teeth just didn't want to come out and a few of them had to be pulled by the dentisit eventually. I didn't even notice the permanent teeth were coming in behind her baby teeth - the dentist did of course during a check up. My daughter was supposed to try to wiggle them and loosen them up and when they didn't budge we went back after a few weeks and had them pulled. But - later teeth did push the baby teeth out - I guess it's how the perm teeth come in - my DD needs orthodontic appliances starting at the end of 2nd grade.

As for how to celebrate losing their teeth - we're not realy big on all of that. We'd wrap the tooth in a napkin (with colors on it - make it easy to find in the dark) and slip it under thier pillow. Best story though is when my son began playing football in 2nd grade - he lost a tooth during practice somewhere on the field. It was gone but we persuaded my son that the tooth fairy would still come (we reminded him of how she found us on vacation for his older sister, etc.). So, my son sat down and wrote a note to the tooth fairy (we still have it). This was a child with language based learning disability and who really struggled to write. But I guess he was motivated! he suggested that the fairy might be able to find the tooth at the middle school field, near the bleachers and he apologized. It was so sweet. ;o)