Dental Health for Babies and Children
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Did you know... A baby's first tooth may start to come in between 3-16 months wit
h the average at around 6 months. The actual timeline per individual is heavily swayed by genetics. Bottom front teeth typically are first to arrive with few exceptions. The four upper teeth follow suit within 4-8 weeks. There are essentially twenty primary teeth to look out for before the age of three. New teeth inherently come in waves, about every four months. Enter the Tooth Fairy... Shedding baby teeth normally begins around the sixth or seventh year. With the loss of the second molars, at roughly eleven to thirteen years old, this course of development concludes. Around the same age of the beginning of the shedding process, you should start to
Victor R. Siegel, DDS