Happy Sunday!  I wanted to mention the average eruption cycle of baby teeth.  Keep in mind, with my three children, they have all varied on when they have gotten their teeth, some sooner or later than listed in an eruption chart.  I have made a basic summary of what you may expect to see in your baby's mouth over the next two and a half years.

The first teeth in the mouth to erupt are normally the front lower incisors.  These are in the front middle small teeth on the bottom that look sooooooo cute coming in.  They usually erupt at six months.  However, my son turned eight months yesterday, and still no teeth.  This is normal as well.  Soon after, the small teeth on either side on the bottom will erupt.  These are lateral incisors.  Before your child's first birthday, you will then see the top four teeth erupt, usually the centrals (middle top two teeth) erupt first.  However, my daughter did not see these until she was fourteen months old.  The one year or first molars come up next on the bottom, then soon after on the top.  The molars generally erupt before the canines so it will look like your baby is "congenitally" missing teeth.  However, soon, you will then see approximately at 1 1/2, the canines erupting on the top and bottom.  Finally at twenty months to two years, you will see the last back or second molars come in the top and bottom.  Then, right when your child starts to shed their baby teeth and erupt the permanent teeth, you will see the first permanent molars erupting in the back.  This usually occurs at six years old.  I have mentioned in earlier blogs that baby teeth are much whiter than permanent teeth.  Your child's teeth may appear to be coming in yellow.  However, once the permanent teeth come in, they will not appear yellow next to each other.  We also clinically refer to this stage of shedding baby teeth and erupting permanent teeth as the "Ugly duckling Stage."  Cruel, but your will understand once you see.  They will grow out of it!

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