Teeth question?
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How many do you still have?
If you only have a few, thats fine. You might not have any adult teeth under there to push them out.
Perfectly normal.
yes it is your teeth r just not ready to fall out yet.
Some people do. I have a very good friend who still has all of hers and she is 30. As long as they are healthy you have nothing to worry about. If not, see a dentist.
I have a little sister who is almost 24 who's two upper canine teeth are still her "baby teeth". Her permanent teeth never came down I guess. You wouldn't know by looking at her though so I guess it's alright?
well people do have milk teeth retained for years it may be due to delayed shedding or the permanent successor might be missing , so get that evaluated it by gettin a x ray done of that particulat tooth and if the permanent is embedded in than consult your dentist for gettin the milk one extracted so that permanent can be brought to its position !
If you still have deciduous (baby) teeth at age 23, one of two things is going on: the permanent teeth that were supposed to follow the baby teeth couldn't erupt for some reason or they never developed at all. Commonly retained baby teeth are upper canine (eye) teeth and lower molar teeth.
An upper deciduous canine tooth can be retained if the permanent successor tooth isn't oriented so it can come down into the mouth properly. In this case, you would have the baby canine tooth in your mouth, and an unerupted permanent tooth too, up in your palate. If the permanent tooth forms up in the jaw angled pointed across the palate, rather than down towards the mouth, it can't come in unless it is "helped" by pulling it down orthodontically.
A deciduous molar tooth can be retained when there is no permanent tooth to follow it, usually because the permanent tooth just never formed. It is not uncommon to be missing the permanent teeth on both sides of the jaw.
Usually, retained deciduous teeth can function pretty well in the mouth, can often be lost as a person gets older. It depends how solidly fixed the teeth are in the jaw, and how much biting and chewing stress they have to withstand. Although having retained baby teeth isn't strictly "normal" in a dental sense, it is a fairly common variation of dentition that is usually a harmless. If you have baby teeth as an adult, you should always have x-rays to determine the reason that the permanent tooth didn't come in. Sometimes it can be related to a disease in your jaws that needs to be treated or a congenital syndrome that includes missing teeth, so it's important to know why you're missing the permanent teeth.
I have seen this, yes! Sometimes it means there are missing permanent teeth, but x-rays should have shown this. I have seen patients with their primary teeth into their 50's with no problems. Just take care of it/them...and they can last for a very long time. :)
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