What to do if baby teeth don't fall out

Many parents will find that their children’s baby teeth have passed a certain age but still have not fallen out. This will have an adverse effect on the child’s replacement of new teeth. So what exactly causes the baby teeth to not fall out? Or when we encounter this problem, how should we effectively solve it to ensure the child’s dental health? Let’s take a look at the methods introduced below.

If you want to better solve the problem of the teeth not falling out of balance, then first you need to understand the reasons why they are out of balance. Only when you fully understand these reasons can you solve them in a targeted manner so that your child can have healthy and beautiful teeth.

The reasons why deciduous teeth do not fall out include:

1. The permanent tooth germ may be necrotic due to infection, or the root of the deciduous tooth may be adhered to the alveolar bone due to inflammation. The root of the deciduous tooth may be incompletely absorbed or even not absorbed at all, resulting in the loss of deciduous teeth.

2. Due to the congenital absence of permanent tooth germs, the roots of deciduous teeth are not subjected to pressure stimulation and are not absorbed, so the deciduous teeth remain on the gums. These remaining deciduous teeth sometimes do not fall out until the age of 30 or 40, and they still have a certain chewing ability.

3. The permanent tooth germ may be necrotic due to infection, or the root of the deciduous tooth may be adhered to the alveolar bone due to inflammation, which may also cause the root of the deciduous tooth to be incompletely absorbed or even not absorbed at all, resulting in the loss of deciduous teeth.

If your child's baby teeth do not fall out when they are due, you should take your child to the hospital for examination and treatment in time. Retained teeth that have erupted but have not fallen out should be extracted as soon as possible to avoid affecting the eruption of permanent teeth in the normal position. If your baby's deciduous teeth have not fallen out and permanent teeth have not erupted after reaching the age of tooth replacement, do not extract them easily. If your permanent teeth are congenitally missing, you should try to keep the deciduous teeth.

There are some reasons and solutions for why baby teeth do not fall out. When parents face this confusion, they may refer to the above methods. This can help their babies solve this problem and allow them to grow new teeth. In life, they should remind their children in time to pay attention to dental care.