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Fri 28 Sep, 2007 09:12 am
The other day, we noticed that my four year old had a grayish tint to her front teeth (tops and bottoms). We tried brushing them, and scraping them and nothing seems to work - they are still gray. It seems to have happened over night. We don't know what caused it, but are suspicious about a couple of items. She "won" at a birthday party these ugly plastic teeth (her choice) and this play lip gloss. We think it could be caused by either of these - hubby tossed them.
I am bringing her to the dentist Saturday so they can look at it. But in the mean time anyone have any thoughts what this could be?
Staining from the fake teeth seems likely...
Hope the dentist figures it out and fixes it!
The only time I've seen gray teeth were when the insides of the teeth were rotten. That wouldn't happen suddenly, though, so I'm sure its from the fake teeth. Did they have die on them or something?
It probably had some sort of dye on it - but hubby threw it away as we suspected it was the culpert.
She also bumped her head the day before and I thought she might have hit her teeth, but she hit the back of her head and she said her teeth didn't hurt only her head.
Well we'll see - hopefully the teeth weren't made in China!
Are these her baby teeth?
I would hope so, littlek, she's only 4 years old.
Yes, so, perhaps they're ready to come out? I know - it's early yet. Just a thought.
They are her baby teeth and the dentist concluded that the hit in the head must have caused the trauma. She said often times when some one hits their head hard, the reaction is to bite down hard and that is what caused the trauma so her teeth are going to stay gray (at least her baby teeth).
We are going to see a specialist in about a week, but most likely what will happen is we simply watch her teeth/gums to make sure there is no redness or bubbling. Otherwise we just deal with gray teeth until her permanent ones grow in.
My poor baby said "So my teeth are going to stay this color?"
Oh, poor baby indeed!
Thanks for the update, I was wondering what was up with this.
Sozlet lost her top teeth first, when she was -- I think 5. Lemme check (this is why I put all this stuff on A2K, I forget and then I can just do a search for "sozlet" and "teeth," say, et voila!).
OK, June 2006, so she was about 5 1/2.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has something to do with her being anxious in general btw -- must have been a hard hit to cause this (sozlet's always been weird for a while after she gets really hurt, like she can't quite trust the world for a bit), and then self-consciousness about the color of her teeth...
Well hopefully she will be on the younger side too! My older daughter didn't lose her first tooth until she was 7.
linkat, I was skating behind a hockey goal (or more like where the snow was shoveled to make room for a make-believe goal) when I was quite young. I can't even remember what happened. Either I got nailed with a back-swung hockey stick or it was a puck. Either way, I lost my two front teeth fast! They turned a nice shade of black first. There was residual nerve damage to my front teeth. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I didn't have soreness when my dog knocked my front tooth in 30-something years later. And the root canal didn't hurt either.
Not ta scare ya or nuthing.
Linkat wrote:They are her baby teeth and the dentist concluded that the hit in the head must have caused the trauma. She said often times when some one hits their head hard, the reaction is to bite down hard and that is what caused the trauma so her teeth are going to stay gray (at least her baby teeth).
I have some difficulty with that. Get another opinion.
dadpad wrote:Linkat wrote:They are her baby teeth and the dentist concluded that the hit in the head must have caused the trauma. She said often times when some one hits their head hard, the reaction is to bite down hard and that is what caused the trauma so her teeth are going to stay gray (at least her baby teeth).
I have some difficulty with that. Get another opinion.
I am going to a specialist (as I stated above) as the dentist suggested to get another opinion.
I also know someone else's child that a similar thing happened to and the dentist came to the same conclusion.
Remember, permanent teeth develop from a bud way, way below the gum line and come with their own nerve.
Perhaps the nerves have been snapped on the baby teeth--but this is not the end of the world.
Well we saw the specialist and she pretty much said the same thing as the dentist - although she went into much more detail with a picture of a tooth and nerves and stuff so I could understand. So basically my daughter damaged the nerve causing I forget what to flush into each of teeth discoloring it.
They do not want to remove the teeth as it would affect eating and speech - especially the speech at this young age. What we need to do is monitor in case there is an infection - which could then damage the permanent teeth and then this would cause removal of the two front teeth.
Aw, bummer.
How's she taking it?
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