How to deal with supernumerary teeth in children

Supernumerary teeth are also called extra teeth in medicine, which means extra and unnecessary teeth. We may have counted our teeth when we were bored before. Most people have 32 teeth, so when the total number of your teeth exceeds 32, it means you have multiple children. Children are the main patients of supernumerary teeth. Supernumerary teeth will affect the gums. So how to deal with supernumerary teeth in children?

Supernumerary teeth vary greatly. They are generally cone-shaped, but can sometimes develop into other shapes, even similar to teeth with the same name. Supernumerary teeth are often found between the two central incisors.

The harm of supernumerary teeth is that if they grow in the dentition, they will occupy the position of normal teeth. Since normal teeth are squeezed out by the supernumerary teeth, they have to grow out from the side of the gums, resulting in disordered tooth arrangement. If supernumerary teeth grow outside the dentition, double teeth will be formed with gaps between the two teeth, causing food debris to be trapped and impacted, leading to inflammation of the gum tissue and even causing tooth decay.

Supernumerary teeth are teeth that should not exist in the first place and may also cause adverse consequences. Therefore, once supernumerary teeth occur, you should ask a doctor to identify and remove them in time.

However, there are still a few children whose supernumerary teeth have not been noticed in the early stages of their growth. When they are discovered and are arranged fairly neatly in the dentition, do not affect other teeth, and there is no abnormality in the occlusion relationship, it can be considered to retain the supernumerary tooth.

Supernumerary teeth can easily affect the neatness of teeth, especially in terms of bite. So when you find that your child has supernumerary teeth, you must take the child to a regular hospital for dentistry and follow the doctor's advice to remove them. The above is how to deal with supernumerary teeth in children. I hope it will be helpful to you.