I am 33 years old, and I still have one baby tooth.
As a child, I had a gap in my teeth, just offset from the front. Rather than pushing out the baby tooth underneath it, an adult tooth just grew crooked into the gap. The baby tooth remains to this day. It has no roots left, and does not feel very structurally sound.
I am 33 years old, and I still have one baby tooth.
As a child, I had a gap in my teeth, just offset from the front. Rather than pushing out the baby tooth underneath it, an adult tooth just grew crooked into the gap. The baby tooth remains to this day. It has no roots left, and does not feel very structurally sound.
For years, the dentist told me that this tooth would probably hang on until my late '20s. Now that we're past that timeline, I just get a "well, that thing doesn't look long for this world." Every once in a while I'll bite something wrong and feel it start to give, but it's in a spot where I don't use it very often, which I think has been a key element in its dogged resiliency.
My last visit, the dentist was super excited to see me because just the night before he had been at some presentation about installing skinny implants. To summarize: my last baby tooth held on long enough that when it inevitably falls out, they now have the technology to replace it with a skinny version of a fake tooth in that same spot, rather than needing to straighten out the crooked tooth that is now positioned next to it. So, no adult braces for me!
I am 33 years old, and I still have one baby tooth.
As a child, I had a gap in my teeth, just offset from the front. Rather than pushing out the baby tooth underneath it, an adult tooth just grew crooked into the gap. The baby tooth remains to this day. It has no roots left, and does not feel very structurally sound.
For years, the dentist told me that this tooth would probably hang on until my late '20s. Now that we're past that timeline, I just get a "well, that thing doesn't look long for this world." Every once in a while I'll bite something wrong and feel it start to give, but it's in a spot where I don't use it very often, which I think has been a key element in its dogged resiliency.
My last visit, the dentist was super excited to see me because just the night before he had been at some presentation about installing skinny implants. To summarize: my last baby tooth held on long enough that when it inevitably falls out, they now have the technology to replace it with a skinny version of a fake tooth in that same spot, rather than needing to straighten out the crooked tooth that is now positioned next to it. So, no adult braces for me!
wow, adult baby tooth havers of the world, unite
you're a medical miracle!!!!