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- From: lowry@watson.ibm.com (Andy Lowry)
- Subject: Crooked baby teeth
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:05:20 GMT
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- I'm wondering if anybody has definitive information on whether crooked
- baby teeth should be a concern? Lindsay's teeth seem to be coming in
- a bit out of whack. I've read, in material about thumb-sucking, that
- concerns about it causing crooked (permanent) teeth are generally
- unfounded unless the thumb-sucking continues to a fairly advanced
- stage. So this makes me think I shouldn't be concerned (Lindsay did
- suck her thumb, but she seems to have stopped recently, at about
- 13mo). But I guess I'm wondering if it isn't possible for the
- existing baby teeth to "derail" the permanent teeth when they come in
- later? In any case seeing them come in crooked has made me a bit
- nervous, so I'd appreciate whatever information anybody has.
- Thanks!
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