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Could a minor injury to deciduous teeth affect permanent teeth?

  • 14-03-2011 5:19pm
    #1
    Iwannahurl
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    This is just a general query -- I don't want to solicit medical advice in case it's anti-Charter.

    If a toddler suffers a minor dental injury could this have consequences for his permanent teeth?

    The kind of injury I have in mind is a minor fall where the front teeth are struck and partially displaced, eg causing an upper incisor to overlap its neighbour slightly.

    Could this affect the root (or whatever) to the extent that the equivalent permanent teeth emerge with the same overlap?


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    In short yes, if the root had damaged the underlying tooth bud there could be some damage that could take many forms from minor white patches to brown patches to dilaceration of the root (google it).

    The think is though that what ever damage is done if any is done and there is nothing to do about it. Wait until the teeth come up at see then. Its not much consolation but its all you can do.


  • #3
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Thanks. So nothing to be done with the damaged deciduous tooth?

    If the strategy is wait and see, could there be any remedy for a crooked/overlapped permanent tooth on the site of its predecessor? A brace, for example?


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