Ok, this may sound like a silly question, but I figured I'd ask...lol Ds is 11 months and now has 5 teeth and I noticed that his 2 top teeth that have come in have a gap btwn them (my teeth were like this as well when I was a kid), but I can't remember if my baby teeth were like that or not. My question is....if the baby teeth have a gap or are crooked does that mean the adult teeth will come in the same way?? Just curious because I needed a retainer to correct that as a kid so I am wondering if his adult teeth will be like that too? ↓
I don't know that you can tell anything about gaps since baby teeth are so small compared to adult teeth and the gaps usually shrink as all their adult teeth push each other into the right place. I had a gap in between my front two teeth which the dentist offer to do something about when I was in grade school, but it never bothered me and closed itself in without any intervention. Crookedness might be a different story though. ↑
My youngest son had to have the skin between his two front teeth snipped so it would allow his teeth to come together. Does he have a thick peice of skin that hangs between his two teeth? If so then at 4 or 5 years they can cut that skin and correct the problem. ↑
I don't think the position of the baby teeth really have anything to do with how the adult teeth come in, my oldest had perfectly straight baby teeth and now she has really crooked teeth coming in because she has a small jaw, same thing happened to me when I was young, I promised my daughter I would get her teeth straight no matter what, something my parents never cared to do with me. Really big adult teeth and really small jaw, lol! So I guess you'll have to wait and see, or you could ask his dentist when he goes for his first checkup around 2-3 years old. The adult front teeth are almost 2x the size of the baby ones though so it'll probably fill in. ↑
