A Pimple on Your Child’s Gums? It Could Be a Dental Abscess A pimple-like bump on a child’s gum, sometimes called a gum boil, is usually a dental abscess: a pocket of infection at the root of a tooth that has found a path out through the gum. An abscess doesn’t heal on its own, […]
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A Bluish Bump on Your Child’s Gums: What an Eruption Cyst Is You look in your child’s mouth expecting a new tooth and instead see a soft, bluish bump on the gum. It looks alarming, but in most cases it is an eruption cyst, a harmless swelling that forms right before a tooth breaks through.
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Shark Teeth: When a Permanent Tooth Comes In Behind a Baby Tooth Your child opens wide and there it is: a second row of teeth, an adult tooth coming in behind a baby tooth that has not budged. It looks like a shark’s mouth, which is where the nickname comes from, and it tends to
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When a Baby Tooth Has to Come Out: What to Expect Hearing that your child needs a tooth removed can sound worse than it is. Baby teeth are meant to fall out on their own, but sometimes decay, injury, or crowding makes it better to take one out early. The visit is usually quick and
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Your Child Needs a Crown? What That Means and What to Expect Most parents think of crowns as something for adults, so hearing that your child needs one on a baby tooth can be a surprise. A crown is a cap that covers a whole tooth when there’s too much damage for a filling to
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How Space Maintainers Prevent Crowding After Early Tooth Loss When a baby tooth falls out or gets extracted before the permanent tooth is ready to replace it, the neighboring teeth can drift into the gap and leave no room for the adult tooth. A space maintainer is a small appliance that holds that gap open
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Dental Sealants for Kids: A Complete Parent’s Guide Your child’s dentist mentioned sealants at the last cleaning, and you nodded along, then went home and looked them up. Are they worth it? Are they safe? Do they actually work? The short answer is yes to all three, but the longer answer is more useful, because
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My Child Chipped a Tooth: What to Do Next Your child fell off the playground swing, or took an elbow during a soccer game, and now there’s a piece of tooth missing. Maybe there’s blood, maybe there isn’t. Either way, the first instinct is to figure out whether this is an emergency or whether it
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