My 10 month old baby was chewing on a baby wipe and pulled her only teeth (two bottom ones) forward at about a 45 degree angle. (this could only happen when baby is sitting in dad's lap). Dentist said to wait a few days to see if bottom lip would push them back into place, which it did. Just like magic - poof! Baby teeth fixed.
Fast forward six years, and one of said teeth fell out only to be replaced by a popcorn kernel colored permanent tooth. This tooth is close to a mustard yellow color. Other baby tooth still lingering in child's mouth.
Has this happened to ANY one else's child? What can be done about it?
Let me say this again...my daughter has a little row of white baby teeth with what looks like a popcorn kernel tooth right in front.
Help!
Edit to add:
1) yes. We have a pediatric dentist she sees at least twice a year. She was there to get a filling when the tooth was just barely poking through. Husband asked hygentist and said she had a wait and see attitude. We can't get a new appointment until middle of January.
2) Thule injury happened on thanksgiving morning 2010. She had a wipe in her mouth and pulled on it. Her two bottom teeth were at a 45 degree angle facing forward. all I can say to the skeptics is that kids put weird stuff in their mouths. My son shoved playground bark mulch, liquid unflavored iron supplement, dog food, and fistfuls of beach sand into his mouth. After that- a wipe seemed normal.
3. When it happened, we called a pediatric dentist referred by our pediatrician. He said something about the gums still being "spongy" and to see if the pressure from the lip would push it back gradually. He said DO NOT push it yourself.
3)She has rarely been sick and has only had antibiotics 3-4 times in her life.
My question was not "should I take her to a dentist?" Because any idiot knows to take a kid with a tooth problem to a dentist. The question was, has this happened to you?(meaning child tooth trauma or yellow teeth) if it had happened, I wanted to know what the outcome was - Tooth fell out, dentist put crown on, etc.
I'm surprised that the two main themes of comments were 1)go to Ped dentist and 2)doubt about the baby wipe. Why would someone make that up?
I would find a pediatric dentist. First sucking on a wipe! Yuck. Sucking in a wipe moved teeth?? My kids chewed and sucked on appropriate teething rings etc. teeth never moved.
And your dentist said...
this is one of the weirdest tales i've ever heard.
the chances of someone else encountering this sort of problem is astronomically tiny.
if the teeth were so loose that the bottom lip could magically fix them, especially at less than a year of age, i'm at a loss.
i assume you've gone to a dentist. it would help if you'd add what professional advice you got before asking teH intrAwebZ.
ETA, okay, since you've belatedly decided to include pertinent information, i'd assume that the adult tooth got damaged during the baby wipe incident. my older had discolored front teeth due to medication i took while pregnant. it required cosmetic dentistry to correct.
khairete
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Take them to the dentist.
What baby would want to suck on a wipe? Wipes are gross. They have soap in them.
This doesn't seem real.
To answer your question as to why someone would make that up: first, I have worked with children for about 20 years and have never seen this AND, you might not have noticed, but we get a lot of 'trolls' (people posting fake questions) during holiday breaks. So, I'm sorry your daughter has had to go through this. Hope things get better.
ETA: After reading your SWH, let me add that you must not have seen all the posts about dentists (not going to one, not being able to find one anywhere) and teeth (entire mouth rotted out, needs full extractions and so forth) especially from new members. It's amazing how many. You're not a new member, but 3 of your 4 posts have to do with major dental issues. So it's reasonable for people to ask what you've already done and not assume you've already been to a pediatric dentist (or several). You could have included that in your original post - and obviously you didn't think you needed to - but if you were on this board all the time, you'd know what's prompting those questions from the regulars who are answering this sort of question so often. And you could still get a second opinion which might make sense given your other kids have dental problems as well (per your prior questions). Maybe there's a family history that would help guide you in this case and in the future. And as to your question about why people make stuff up - we don't know, but it happens all the time. Some of the questions are really outrageous, some are trolls and get pulled by the moderators, and some people are really just plain dumb. So asking the question to get more info from you is not meant to tick you off - it's meant to elicit more info and, in the process, weed out the bogus posts. I admit some of us get a bit impatient and maybe could phrase things more delicately, but we're human too.
Original answer: I am not sure why a child was allowed to chew on a baby wipe at all - I understand that kids get into things, but I'm not clear on how long this went on, so much that she pulled her teeth so far forward. I wonder if the dentist thinks there was something wrong with those teeth to begin with. It seems odd that a "poof-magic" fix could also cause such severe damage. So I wonder if that's not the cause, or if it wasn't a true "fix" at all.
And how that would cause a problem 6 years later is Mystery #2. I think you need 1 or even 2 additional consultations with pediatric dentists who are not connected with the one you currently see. We can only tell you if this has happened to our kids (which it has not to mine) but we cannot tell you what can be done about it. That is a recommendation that should come from an expert who has done at least 3 things: examined your daughter, consulted with her current dentist, and looked at full mouth x-rays.
Trauma can discolor teeth. Whether that's what happened here, no way for us to tell. I'd ask the dentist.
As for the wipe part, and the teeth being slightly dislodged - yikes. That sounds kind of nasty. My kids chewed on toys and teething rings - their teeth never moved. I'd ask about that (why they moved) when you ask about the discoloration. Good to get a second opinion.
ETA: Saw your edit. Kind of bristly! That info was missing from your question, now that you've added - I'll add to my answer, if this helps.
My child fell and cut his lip when he was learning to walk. It nearly required stitches but they were able to bandage it with one of those special strips instead. His teeth didn't move, and he fell into a sharp toy he was pushing, face first onto his mouth. His permanent teeth came in white.
My brother lost his 4 front baby teeth in an accident at preschool. They fell out. His permanent teeth came in white. (He tripped and fell onto a little boy who kneed him in the mouth.)
So - that's why I suggested you see a dentist - because this doesn't sound like anything I've come across. The only time I've seen yellowish teeth in children was from tooth decay. I've seen a 'dead tooth' not sure if that is the proper term for it, and that was different than yellow.
I believe (you can Google this) that they can whiten children's teeth using a different formula than they use for adults.
My other thought now reading what else you've added is, I'd ask his pediatrician. There can be medical reasons for oral problems.
nope. neither myself or my husband would allow a child to chew on a baby wipe.
I would ask my dentist what we can do to fix it. Is it dead or just discolored? A dentist is the one who can help you get this fixed.
I think you are trying to connect two separate issues.
Permanent teeth become discolored sometimes due to medication that a child has before the permanent teeth come in.
Since your child is six, I assume s/he has been to the dentist?
Our schools mandate dental visits for kindergarten.
As the others have said, please see your dentist and perhaps get a few consultations.
Have you taken her to see a pediatric dentist? They should know if the damaged tooth needs to come out because it is damaging the tooth underneath.
My daughter fell off the couch onto her Playtex Nurser bottle. Hard fall. Jammed her front top tooth into the gum all the way.
Dentist, back in 1980, said it would straighten up and be okay or it would fall out. So we left it alone. It damaged the tooth underneath and it came in horrible.
She lost it not too long after it was exposed. So she had 3 front top teeth and 4 bottom front teeth. They moved around and smooshed together. She looked normal unless she pulled her top lip up and pointed it out.
I suggest you call your insurance provider or go online to find their list of pediatric dentists.
Truly, do not take your infant to a family dentist. They are okay but pretty much do NOT treat baby teeth. A pediatric dentist is a specialist that works on baby teeth and then keeps patients until they move over to family dentists with almost all adult teeth. They'll keep them for years. Ours was in OKC on N. Portland. Love him still. But it's a full day out of school twice per year to go to him with driving there and such. So we've moved the kids, all school age now, to a local family dentist who is a family friend. We're pleased with his work but are certainly glad we had the choices to go to OKC for as long as we did.
The pediatric dentist diagnosed Geographic Tongue and a chewing issue with our grand kids. He was amazing and wonderful and we miss him a lot.
It's hard to picture what's going on.
The shell tooth almost sounds like a tooth fragment or sharks tooth.
http://www.raisingarizonakids.com/2014/02/pediatric-denta...
http://www.toothclub.gov.hk/en/pnc/en_pnc_2_2_5_3.html
It wouldn't hurt to get a second opinion from another dentist.
It seems odd that a baby wipe could pull teeth almost out like that. Have you talk to your dentist about the new tooth? It is possible that there was some damage done to the new tooth when the other injury occurred, sometimes after a tooth injury the tooth can change color (sometimes even blacken) and sometimes it can occur years later. Talk to her dentist.
One thing than can cause tooth discoloration is antibiotics. Also adult teeth are normally less pearly white than baby teeth.
