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Subscribe to RSSWhen Baby Nesa Lopez was just three days old, her mom noticed something peculiar about her newborn: She had two lower front teeth.
"One of my friends told me that she thought I had glued teeth in her mouth at first," mom Sandra Vosburg, 20, told Tampa Bay Online. Vosburg and her baby daughter, who was born Oct. 4, live in Plant City, Fla. "Nobody believed me until I showed it to them, and I'm like, 'Wow, that is weird.'"
Actually, experts say, it isn't that unusual.
"Every pediatric dentist sees it," McTigue told the Tampa news site. He says it happens in one in 4,500 newborns. When it happens, it's normally the two lower front baby teeth, just like Nesa's two chompers, which are called neonatal teeth. Teeth can even be present at birth -- that's called natal teeth.
If you've ever known a newborn with teeth, we'd love to hear your story. Do tell.
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My daughter was born with her two lower teeth as well. I was told that sometimes they are the baby teeth, and sometimes, babies have three sets, making those first ones a choking hazard if the "real" baby teeth push them out. In my daughter's case, they were her actual teeth. It was a little strange, but we got used to it quickly.
I was born with two teeth - I think the lower ones. As I was so young at the time, I don't remember any details, though.
My Mom said that i wasn't born with teeth, but had six of them by the time I was about 4 months old. I was in the hospital and eating soft adult food, my MOm was bringing in baby food for me, the nurse told her i was eating adult food without a problem. I had a couple of molars where I had three teeth, My teeth aren't strong, I have had one molar abcess, the next one came in, it abcessed too. My third one cracked apart. I also have stained teeth from tetracycline as a baby. I was 5'9" in the fourth grade. I guess I was an early maturer.
My daughter was born with one bottom tooth already in. The pediatric dentist actually removed when she was three days old because it was loose and they thought it could be a choking hazard. It was very hard getting into the swing of breast feeding until her little mouth felt better. It was strange and we haven't met anyone else who was born with a tooth although the dentist had seen it before.
My daughter is now five has always had a little gap in her bottom teeth. We have had xrays and know that her permanent tooth is waiting right under the surface. My daughter has always loved explaining her "born with a tooth" story to any one who asked "oh you lost a tooth?"
My mother in law was born with a tooth and one of her sons grew 7 extra teeth that had to be extracted including a molar that grew out of the roof of his mouth. Im not sure if this is related but my daughter got her teeth early. Her first two came in at 4 months old, she had 8 by the time she was 7 months old, she is now almost 1 1/2 years old and has 16
My daughter is missing 9 permanent teeth unfortunately.
I am a Postpartum Nurse, and a couple weeks ago I took care of someone who had twins, one of whom was born with two little nubbins on the bottom jaw We weren't sure if they were natal teeth or really big epstein pearls. Next day one tooth was slightly poking through, and the day after she had one full tooth sticking out and the tip of the other one was starting to show.
Poor mom! The baby was small (which makes for difficult breastfeeding to begin with) and the addition of the teeth made her days with us in the hospital rather miserable.
My daughter who is 11 weeks today was born with her two front lower teeth intact and they're actually staying in. Everything says they usually fall out and are hollow, but hers are very firmly implanted and seem strong. She seems to be bothered by them from time to time, and they have a little redness to them after we nurse, but she gets a lot of relief from having them rubbed with a cold wet cloth. She's never bitten me harder than my daughter without them has, and I see no reason to subject her to xrays. I'm certainly not letting anyone rip them out of her head. The only difference I've noticed in my second daughter is that she doesn't like a pacifier and won't touch a bottle with a nipple on it. We've had success getting her to take breast milk from a cup like a grown up, a little sip at a time, but otherwise she'd prefer to nurse. I think her little teeth bother her otherwise. Good luck!
My daughter was born with both bottom teeth and they had them removed as to help her eat better. The dentist and doctors were concerned so I started to get concerned and I did what they said was best. She was also born with a cleft palette so this could be a different situation.I think to myself if I didn't have them remove them, I wonder if everything would have been okay, or did I do the right thing..
my son born with 2 bottom teeth ,Doctor said it is normal and don't need to do anything they will fall off after few months. so i didn't do anything.I breastfeed my son for 5 months he never bite me or hurt himself . the curios thing is he is almost 3 years old and he still has his newborn teeth . by the way my son eats perfectly and nobody really notice his first teeth until i mentioned .