My baby is about to turn 10 months old and her first tooth has not yet come out. However, I do not worry too much since although in his sisters the first teeth appeared at “normal” ages (one at seven and another at eight months), in the family there is an inherited tendency to late dentition.
The exit of the first tooth is a milestone in the growth of the baby. To learn a little more about the ages at which temporary or milk teeth appear, we will talk about when the baby's first tooth comes out.
Baby's first tooth
Baby's first tooth usually comes out between six and eight months in most children, but it can also appear sooner or later.
Not all babies get the first tooth at the same age and there is no reason to worry if a friend's baby had her first tooth left at five months and ours with ten months has not yet come out. There are babies who even learn to walk before their first tooth has come out.
Just as not all children take their first steps or leave the diaper at a specific age, for the output of baby teeth each baby has its own rhythm which is determined by inheritance and its constitution.
It is not true that the delay in appearing the first teeth is due to a lack of calcium or a growth problem. The total absence of temporary teeth or milk is extremely rare, although it may be the case that more or less teeth emerge in children.
Just as there are babies with late teething, it is common that by the age of the first year the baby already has eight teeth, four incisors above and four below. In some, the first molars may have even come out.
The order in which milk teeth come out
As for the order of appearance of the teeth Yes there is a certain pattern. The first tooth to appear is one of the two central incisors of the lower jaw, while the second is usually the other neighboring incisor.
Then the two upper incisors come out, then the two upper sides and later the two lower sides. It is followed by the first molars, the canines and the second molars.
By three years all the baby teeth have already come out. In total there are 20, ten in the upper arch and ten in the lower one.
As for my baby, I'll keep waiting for it to appear his first tooth, which so far has not had any of the typical discomfort caused by the exit of teeth such as drooling, inflammation of the gums, irritability, crying, or tenths of fever.
