Oh, in other news, Ana has a loose tooth!

[conuly]

It wiggles! It jiggles! It'll fall out sooner or later!

She's worried that it might hurt to fall out (we assured her that it won't, although there may be some TOTALLY PAINLESS blood), and that it might hurt to cut a new tooth (I pointed out that since she's already had a tooth there, it's unlikely to hurt much, that I can't remember any of my adult teeth hurting as they came in).

Here's hoping it falls out soon :)

Comments

[leora.livejournal.com]

I don't expect the replacement tooth will hurt. Wisdom teeth, on the other hand, hurt like hell when they grow in. But they cut through gum to do it, and she won't have to worry about that for more than a decade, if ever.

[conuly]

You do get four adult teeth that aren't wisdom teeth but that don't come in where old teeth were, but again, that's years in the future.

Apparently, children breaking in their adult teeth *do* get cranky and irritable, so it must hurt on some level, but as I don't know of *anybody* who remembers it hurting - nor whose parents remember them screaming in pain like babies do when *they* teethe! - it must not be that bad.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I remember it hurting.




Also, a dentist-friend of mine told me that the larger a tooth is, the more it 1) hurts to come out and 2) hurts to come back in. The topic came up re: topher's double tooth.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I don't expect the replacement tooth will hurt. Wisdom teeth, on the other hand, hurt like hell when they grow in. But they cut through gum to do it, and she won't have to worry about that for more than a decade, if ever.

[conuly]

You do get four adult teeth that aren't wisdom teeth but that don't come in where old teeth were, but again, that's years in the future.

Apparently, children breaking in their adult teeth *do* get cranky and irritable, so it must hurt on some level, but as I don't know of *anybody* who remembers it hurting - nor whose parents remember them screaming in pain like babies do when *they* teethe! - it must not be that bad.

[lizziey.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I remember it hurting.




Also, a dentist-friend of mine told me that the larger a tooth is, the more it 1) hurts to come out and 2) hurts to come back in. The topic came up re: topher's double tooth.