Fused teeth in 2yr old?!


Question:

Fused teeth in 2yr old?

My little girl is 2 and we went to the dentist to be told that her lower right incisor is fused with the adjacent tooth. I went to the dentist because I felt there was no space for the bottom right. Instead it would appear that the two teeth had fused.
Has anyone been through this and what are the chances that her permanent teeth might be ok, i.e. she will have not have a single big fused tooth instead of 2 separate ones.

Does anyone have any information/experience of this? I would love to here from you.


Answers:

Yes, my son's top front and the one next to it of his adult teeth were fused together into one huge front tooth, which looked terrible. To cut a long story short, he had it taken out, and luckily had an extra tooth growing on the other side of the joined one, which a very clever orthodontist has used a brace to move along so that the spare tooth is now his other front tooth in the gap where the fused one was. It has taken three years of braces and is nowhere near finished yet. But looks fine now.
The orthodontist and all the other people he consulted had never come across anything like it before - he was quite famous among them! He still has to have an operation to stop the muscle trying to move the replacement tooth back to where it came from.
The good news is, his baby teeth didn't have this problem, so I would assume that your daughter's teeth will be separate when the adult ones grow.
Good luck! :-)




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