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[valkryor]

In March, just as the province was shutting down, my kid had a routine dental appointment. Because he had two of his adult incisors (the ones on either side of his upper front teeth) coming in on top of his baby teeth, and there was time and inclination, the dentist removed his upper front incisors then and there.

In the months since, his weirdly pointing incisors have straightened out some (he will likely still need braces later), but his two front teeth haven't descended. At all. No tip poking through the gum, no hard ridge, nada zip zilch zero.

So, back to the dentist he went.

Yesterday, they took more x-rays and discovered the reason why: he has extra teeth. If nothing happens between now and his next cleaning in December, we need to make appointments for dental surgery to have those extra removed.

My kid is a shork.

Comments

[kadenza]

Wow, inconvenient but neat! I think I read that Henry VIII had a third set of teeth... 🤔

[kadenza]

I can find zero evidence of my earlier claim... I think they used to publish all kinds of bullshit in "cool facts" books pre-Google, assuming no kid would ever find out the truth....

[valkryor]

There are people out there with an extra set of teeth. Just not Henry VIII. :D

[eeyorerin]

I know that problem well! Connor had it too. But once they took out that extra tooth, his adult teeth came in fast.

[valkryor]

Cool! Not that you had to live through it ('cause I'm sure it was a special brand of hell), but that everything went well and then boom! adult teeth.